<p>I'm a junior in High School and I'm planning on applying to the Wharton Business School at Upenn. I was wondering if anyone knows the importance of extracurricular activities in their decisions, what do you think of my chances? </p>
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<li><p>I run a site which focuses on socially responsible stocks and the future of alternative fuels, <a href="http://www.GoG2G.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.GoG2G.com</a>. My work has been published on Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, Seeking Alpha, The Vancouver Sun and several blogs as well. I analyze the ethanol sector specifically and conduct several interviews with Venture Capitalist such as Vinod Vhosla and well known professors such as David Pimental. The site has grown to around 100,000 viewers and is my main priority. </p></li>
<li><p>Over this past summer I interned two-months at a private company, <a href="http://www.Connotate.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.Connotate.com</a>, as a data-mining analyst which is essentially doing research for the companies clients. </p></li>
<li><p>Over this school year I am currently interning at a start-up, <a href="http://www.Zandigo.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.Zandigo.com</a>, which is revolutionizing the process of college admissions by incorporating the internet. </p></li>
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<p>I don't do what I do to impress colleges, I do it because i'm passionate, just curious what impact it can make. </p>
<p>I'm also part of the business club, model UN at school and played two years on the basketball team before working at Zandigo</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9
SAT: Haven't taken it
PSAT: 2010
SAT II's: Haven't taken them </p>
<p>at this point you sound like you have pretty good chances, but you'll also probably need a 2200+ SAT and some 700+ SAT IIs (or a 32 ACT, but I recommend the SAT because more applicants submit the SAT for the ivies, so the admissions officers have more context to compare you with)</p>
<p>i'd also recommend that you get a recommendation from an economics teacher (hopefully you're taking economics)</p>
<p>just wondering, does your school offer any economics competitions? because those would help out your app under the "awards/honors" section and confirm your passion</p>
<p>be well rounded. Wharton doesn't expect, require, or particularly want business-based extracurriculars, contrary to popular belief. In fact, an admissions officer on this forum once said that they don't like such people because they come into the college thinking they know a lot already.</p>
<p>do you know which top undergrad business schools stress on extracurriculars the most? I do take economics so a recommendation is possible...I look at it like this, every college wants someone whos doing a unique thing and my site I think is unique...that alone can make a large impact...but I'm not exactly sure where.</p>
<p>You have some pretty out of schools ECs but also try to get some in school; ALL of them will stress on ECs pretty much the same so that's not really the issue, most of the times its more like grades. Don't get too caught up in trying to be "unique" that much because think about it rationally, how many unique things CAN be done? Colleges won't just take the ONLY unique people, then there wouldn't even be a college. Though it is better to have something that other people don't.</p>
<p>ECs are important for all ivies, u have some pretty good ECs. However, ivies still emphasize on grades and scores. Grades/scores/recommendations/essays all outweigh ECs. They consider those "very important" while ECs are "considered". From the looks of ur PSAT, u need to get ur scores up</p>