Penn Seas Chances for my Hillbilly Daughter

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Pardon the interruption from someone who lives on the parent's side of town. I also posted this on the Penn board,but it may get more looks here. I think this is my first what are her chances thread. Ever. LOL. But...Penn is a different kind of bird, so please bear with me if I don't do this correctly and blame me , she's a good kid.</p>

<p>D is a rising senior from a relatively small, relatively poor, rural district in Texas. Penn SEAS is the only Ivy college that interests her at all, and her interest is specifically in the Biomedical Science program. </p>

<p>2160 New SAT, 730CR, 740Math, 690W, 32 ACT w/ a 36 Math (both should be 99th percentile for female test takers based on available historical data. These scores are from her first , or only, try at each. She'd like to be done but may retake the ACT because of a unexpectedly but after review richly deserved subpar science score at the 90th percentile.). Currently 1/140, won't be below 2/140 barring catastrophe. 4.64w,4.0/4.0uw (transcript will not show a B, semester test, final , or 6-weeks)</p>

<p>Toughest courseload available including several college level (and EPGY BC Calc) courses as she has topped out the school curriculum. School only offers two AP's for junior year, and she has a 4 in Lit and a 5 in AB Calc. She has won 7 best in school awards: for Math (3 times), English (2), Physics (1),and Chemistry (1). (all honors sections, or AP)</p>

<p>4 year Varsity Basketball starter, 2 year Co-captain on Area Championship Team, post season Honors all 4 years. Extensive Summer Basketball experience every year. Camps, showcases, and tournaments with awards.(Not a D1 candidate-bad gene pool.)</p>

<p>Marching Band and Symphonic Band Section and Line Leader on State Ranked Band (2 years officer, member all 4), State Qualifier -UIL Solo and Ensemble as a Tuba Player in a Bass Quartet.</p>

<p>Girl's State delegate, and minor elected official.</p>

<p>Regional Sixth Place Math UIL Competition (first female) and Math Team Co-captain (2 years)- District Champion (1), 3rd place large Invitational Math Tournament (first female). </p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer (100 hours), community volunteering , school volunteering including tutoring at risk kids and hearing impaired kids for several hundred hours.</p>

<p>Raises sheep and goats of her own for her spending money. Lives on an isolated ranch and performs general ranchhand activities for additional pay. Bottle raises 4-6 orphaned , abandoned, or injured kids, lambs , or fawns /year.</p>

<p>Some un-impressive and sort of boring Student Government, club, or organization stuff that probably won't make it to the app.</p>

<p>Rec's should be very good to exceptional, essays will be a challenge.</p>

<p>Wondering how she would be treated at Penn, specifically SEAS. Upenn adcom that D talked to in person felt being a female would be a decent hook at SEAS, as would her rural background. What do y'all think, especially admitted or current Penn students? As I said , Penn is the only school she has of this profile so we really don't have much of a clue except what the dry numbers and crappy guidebooks say.</p>

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<p>Don't know about Penn. But have to ask. I know a girl with similar stats, completely focused on biomedical. Applied early to Duke, accepted. Interviewed with the Dean, they were great. Now, she is from Silicon Valley, but is kind of a small town girl. Does 'mudgie have Duke on her list?</p>

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<p>Alu, Penn's program is so appealing to D because it is sort of BME without that much E. It will not lead to a career as a professional engineer, but with a bio or chem concentration (which appears highly possible), grad school in either would not be an impossible feat. Important because if D ends up not wanting med school , it's a good bet she'll want to be a bio/chem researcher of some kind. </p>

<p>To my knowledge she has not looked at Duke but if they had a similar program I'm sure she would be thrilled to do so. Heck, if anyone knows of a similar program be sure to post that,too. I'll ask Mudgerella to check out Duke after her morning "job" at Surgery ICU. She's so whacked. She calls it going to work. She even eats lunch in the caf. LOL. Thanks for the heads up, Alu.</p>

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<p>Hey, if possible, I wish she would go to Princeton and hang with Aludaughter. But perhaps in their next life...</p>

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<p>Alu, as you and I have discussed before Princeton would be just DANDY with me. Their FA calculator likes me, so maybe the school FA office would ,too.;)</p>

<p>I can't seem to get much happening on this thread (or the one on the Penn board). I'm betting it's because I'm an <em>over-involved</em> adult. Don't worry about that. I know I'm an over-involved adult. Now ,I KNOW some of you have some opinions, let's hear them. Are her EC's light? Does she come off like a moron in my recitation? Test scores suck? Sound like nerd girl? One very talented friend said she would be called "Ellie Mae Jabbar" by the adcoms in committee. I'm sure you CC pros can top that. LOL.</p>

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<p>I think she has a pretty honest shot. You know how to look at the admit data. Even a good shot is not all that great at the Ivy schools. She should go ID at Rice if it interests her at all. She will have UT/TAMU as safety schools with her class rank. Have her keep digging for other schools that match her interests. I would say she needs at least 6-8 schools that she will be happy with if at all possible, particularly if they are all top 25 type schools. Have her PM with Lindsey if she wants some help with apps or essays. Use my name :)</p>

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<p>Thanks bandit. Lindsey would certainly qualify as a pro. D seems a little more interested these days in schools other than her beloved LAC's .She told me today that she had been ribbing a friend on their lack of preparation for this process and the friend laughed at her and said " You've been researching colleges since the 7th grade and you still don't know where you're going. I'm not that far behind'. Isn't that a hoot? She did,too. 7th grade. I started helping spring of the 10th. Heck, I'm worn out and she's still changing gears on me.</p>

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<p>Yep, been there done that. Lindsey started freshman year.</p>