Please chance me for Wharton ED.

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<p>Hey everyone. I’m about to become a senior and really want to be admitted to Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. I plan on applying ED, and would appreciate if you could chance me and offer some feedback. Thanks!</p>

<p>Basics
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
School: Public School that sends maybe 1-2 kids to top schools each year.</p>

<p>Grades/Rankings:
IB Diploma Candidate
GPA: 4.0/4.0 unweighted (our school doesn’t weigh GPA’s)
Rank: 1/430</p>

<p>Classes:
Junior: IB Math, IB English, IB History, IB Biology, IB French, Leadership, Business Leadership</p>

<p>Senior: IB Math, IB English, IB History, IB Biology, IB French, IB Business Management, Leadership, Team Sports!</p>

<p>Will be in IB Math SL II senior year (equivalent of calculus, I believe?)</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT: 2190
Verbal: 770
Math: 700
Writing: 720
Essay: 10</p>

<p>SAT II’s to be taken October 2009
Math Level II, Literature, and Bio most likely.</p>

<p>Soccer:
Premier Club Team (national-level quality, won numerous state championships)
ODP State Team (2005-2009)
Men’s Varsity Soccer (9, 10, 11, 12)</p>

<p>Leadership:
Captain – club soccer team for 5 years
President and Founder – micro lending club at my high school
Vice-President – HS DECA chapter (11th-12th grade)
ASB (Student Body) President</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Internship at a product manufacturing company (2007-Present)
• Managed online marketing and website design
• Helped to gather information and begin contract negotiations with MLB, NFL, NBA, etc.</p>

<p>Founder and President of an online marketing company (LLC)
• $1000’s in revenue each year
• 1 fulltime employee (project manager located in India)
• Outsources regularly throughout the world for jobs including graphic design, web design, SEO, and more</p>

<p>Other Extra-Curriculars:
eBay Powerselling
Key Club
DECA (9th – 12th grade)
Editorial Staff and Advertising Manager for school newspaper
National Honors Society
Math League</p>

<p>Volunteering:
150 hours of CAS for IB Diploma
Estimated 70 hours for Key Club by the end of senior year
Regular volunteer at Church</p>

<p>With excellent essays and recommendations from teachers, what are my chances at Wharton for Early Decision? I could always hold off for regular decision and hopefully improve my SAT’s and add more volunteering if it would be advantageous, but I would like to apply ED because of athletic recruiting that is still up in the air at this point. </p>

<p>I’d really appreciate any suggestions, comments, criticisms, or feedback of any sort. Thank you all kindly.</p>

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<p>excellent chance of admittance. Only thing left for you is a stellar essay. Don’t make it cliche; takes risks with it because there is no “sure way” of making it into Wharton. Good luck!</p>

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<p>700 for math? That’s pretty low as are your SATs. Any SATIIs? I would retake the sats</p>

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<p>nychica, the OP said that he hasn’t took any SAT II.</p>

<p>OP, you might want to try the ACT, some people like it better than the SAT. However, your SAT is not bad.</p>

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<p>Your SATs are fine, i think you have a very high chance of admittance, great stats!</p>

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<p>i wouldn’t say the SATs are fine. below a 2250 is not strong. u can take the satIIs in october and the SATs in november, and u’d be fine for ed. </p>

<p>i’m thinking since yr school takes 1-2/ yr. to top colleges and yr #1 in yr class, u have a good shot</p>

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<p>Everyone, thank you for the feedback so far. I am also a little worried about my math SAT score, but I’ve been preparing for the SAT Math Level II exam in October and hope I can do well on that. </p>

<p>The situation has changed from when I first posted this topic earlier this week on the forum. I was just offered a roster spot on Penn’s soccer team if I can make it through admissions. Because I’m not an amazing candidate to get into Wharton (although I would love to), I’m thinking that I’ll apply to the CAS on Early Decision and hopefully get in there. If I did then mabye I could transfer to Wharton, but at least I would be in the school if that didn’t work.</p>

<p>I just don’t want to jeopardize my chance of playing soccer at Penn by getting rejected from Wharton. So I guess this topic has turned into “Please chance me for UPenn CAS ED”. Any more feedback would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>On another note: With the ED application suggested deadline being October 15th, is taking the SAT Reasoning Test again in November too late to be considered for admissions?</p>

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<p>Any other feedback? Thanks.</p>

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<p>from Penn’s site </p>

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<p>Hmmm, when I was talking to admissions last year they <em>strongly</em> recommended that I take HL math so it might be something to consider, seriously its not hard but does require some work. Everything else looks decent. I wouldn’t say you have a “high” chance of admission, about average I would think.</p>