I am currently a junior. UPenn is my dream school!! It might be quite a reach for me but I just want to see if I have any chance of getting in…please be brutally honest, say no if there’s no chance. Thanks!!
GPA: 3.85 uw(~3.7 first two years but now 4.0 and will maintain 4.0 next year, I just wanna kick my freshman and sophomore self…)
New SAT: 1570(800 math 390 reading 380 grammar) 23 on essay (one point off for reading I think, can’t remember which one)
Haven’t taken subject or APs yet, will take them this May. Current AP classes: Calc BC, Chem and literature. Schedule for next year: AP physics, AP stats, multi/linear algebra, AP French, AP art history, AP compsci A.
Summer activities: past two years I have interned at a lab in Columbia University’s institute of human nutrition under two Columbia professors researching the hydrolysis rate of emulsions of MCT and LCT compared to simply mixing the two together and their effects on the inflammatory system. I’m still waiting for decisions for this year’s summer programs, mainly waiting for LBW, M&TSI and WTP. (fingers crossed!!)
ECs: Vice-president of presidential service award verified organization IMPACT, presidential service award bronze medalist, interned at a Chinese social media technology corporation for 3 years (mainly through online communication. I help run a video channel in China with 2 million subscribers, not sure if this counts for anything.) student conductor of school chorus, part of selective singer group (10 out of 100-200 students in chorus), founder and president of photography club, creator of school-wide photography contest, math club co-president, help found the school-wide math contest, ensemble in two years of school winter musical, school robotics team marketing subgroup, vice-president of Chinese-culture club, school blue-key tour guide (kind of means a tour guide leader)
Jobs and internships: the two internships at Columbia lab and Chinese corporation I have mentioned, and a paid job for a month (it was short) as a digital designer for the webpage of a shop with ~700,000 customers. Unfortunately the shop has closed and the website is no longer available but I think I still have the photoshop files of my designs? I’ll have to dig around. In addition, I did paid portrait retouches for a show in China similar to American idol, by one of the biggest television companies in China.
State: New Jersey
Ethnicity: Chinese (but I am an American citizen)
Income: medium-high
Gender: female
Is there anything I’m missing? I’m stressing out so much because I feel like my ECs are super random and not very competitive… is there anything I can do in the next year to improve my resume… thanks so so much for the help in advance, they really mean a lot to me! I’m really stressing out haha.
so do you have any suggestions on how I can strengthen in the next several months? I’m also planning to put Wharton as my “second choice” if M&T rejects me. What do you think about my chances for Wharton then? Sorry to ask so many questions haha, but thank you so much for chancing me!