<p>Just bumping this up to see if anyone has anything else to contribute</p>
<p>i heard if u live in one of those phili feeder schools, a 1300 + WILL like almost ensure ur acceptance. A lot of the schools in the heart of phili, let's just say aren't that great. They salivate over phili kids that are half decent.</p>
<p>Well, that doesn't really help me since my school isn't necessarily a feeder school and isn't even in the heart of Philly lol.. Now if I could murder the rest of the applicants from my school, perhaps I have a shot..</p>
<p>i think coming from a feeder school with average statistics might hurt applicants, especially ED.</p>
<p>off-topic</p>
<p>i'm done, continue</p>
<p>well i live right outside philly and i heard that every year, one of the main feeder schools get like 50 seniors accepted and usually like half end up going there in the end. i know someone who had pretty average sat scores... well low for penn like in the 1300s and she got in early to wharton... then again, she was also student body president and got a personal rec from the principal.</p>
<p>I really hope they look at my application and say "O, this kid's parents own a dry cleaning store 20 minutes from campus. If we admit him, maybe he'll get us free dry cleaning and tailoring." Don't think the addition of putting a "free dry cleaning for life" coupon with my application didn't cross my mind!! ;) Anyway, I really hope Penn accepts people outside of the people they have normally accepted from my school--rich white males and bookworm (no offense!) Asian girls! Buhahaha!</p>
<p>Man you guys are so lucky that you live near Philly! I live in MD and attend a highly competitive high school. It's a lot harder to get accepted from here though.</p>
<p>Well, according to Lee Stetson, the director of admissions, testing(meaning the weighting of both GPA and SAT/ACT , I assume ) accounts for 40% of the factors they consider. Unfortunately, when schools give out averages for the 25-75th percentile ranges, what they don't tell you is that most non-hook applicants fall at least at that 75th percentile to be considered strong. Like in my GPA/ED thread, though, to me the benefit of ED is still the unknown( I think its supposedly 30 points lower for ED on average, but that includes all the legacy applicants!) However, if you are anywhere within the city limits of Phila. that should be a major hook for you.</p>