Should I even bother applying to HYPS?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So, I got rejected from Wharton ED. I don't understand how I wasn't at least deferred. Is this a sign that there might be a fatal flaw in my application?</p>

<p>-GA resident, male
-Ethnicity: mixed Hispanic (Spanish) and Asian (Filipino)
-UW GPA: 3.94ish
-Weighted GPA: 4.14
-school doesn't rank, but I got an award for being the junior with the highest weighted GPA, meaning I'm a would-be valedictorian.</p>

<p>I'm expecting rejections/waitlists across the board to be honest with you. </p>

<p>SAT I's
Math: 800
CR: 730
Writing:710</p>

<p>SAT II's
Math II: 800
Chem: 720
U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>AP scores:
US Gov and Politics: 5
APUSH: 5
AP Chem: 5
AP Eng. Lang: 5</p>

<p>Senior Load
1. AP Calculus BC
2. AP Statistics
3. AP Biology
4. AP Physics C
5. H British Literature
6. Economics (I wish my school offered AP.)</p>

<p>-school doesn't offer honors classes, but mentions "due to the rigorous curriculum of the school, no classes are designated as honors" in school description.</p>

<p>My only B's have been graphic design freshman year, AP Gov last year(will a 5 on the exam atone for this), and a mandatory composition class at our school this summer? I got straight A's junior year.</p>

<p>-will mention Math, Economics, and Chemistry respectively as my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice majors. I want to be an investment banker or hedge fund manager when I grow up.</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Boy Scouts
-Eagle Scout (just did my board of review). My project was building benches, pressure-washing old ones, and putting sealant.
-Senior Patrol Leader during 10th grade, Patrol Leader during 9th
-broke a national record for hiking. I hiked the Bartram Trail (100 miles/5 days, has a lot of elevation): honored by Governor Sonny Purdue and national head of boy scouts for this feat
-LOTS of community service projects
-raised money for inner-city kids to buy scout uniforms
-Philmont Summer 2010-completed trek 34, the hardest trek Philmont has to offer (Only 5 crews this entire summer out of the 1000+ that come to Philmont did trek 34).</p>

<p>Tennis (all 4 years)
-private lesons
-varsity tennis</p>

<p>Academic Quiz Bowl team (10-12)</p>

<p>I founded and am president of our school's food critic club. We go to restaurants about once a month and write critiques about them, which are published in the school newspaper. I'm trying to see if we can get published in the Zagat Survey.</p>

<p>Trumpet
-Superior Rating (9,10,11) at Solo Ensemble Festival
-Community Jazz Band (9-12)
-GISA all-select band member (11th grade) (top band members of private schools in GA)
-played for church on Sundays
-invited to play at school's open house 10th grade</p>

<p>Piano for 11 years
-invited to play at several concerts</p>

<p>Duke TIP summer program (summers after 9th and 10th grade, I respectively studied macroecon. and robotics)</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
-Georgia Certificate of Merit
-Phi Beta Kappa Award (given to Junior with the highest weighted GPA in class)
-National Merit Semifinalist</p>

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<p>Haha, I did TIP too. You seem like a comeptitive applicant. Have you done any volunteering / sports – they eat that up. I would focus on your leadership in boy scouts, and how having the ability to help people (like with that uniform fundraiser) would be enhanced by attending these schools / becoming a hedge fund manager. </p>

<p>Chance back?</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>Potential environmental science / econ major</p>

<p>SAT: 2350 (M: 750, V: 800, W: 800)
SAT IIs: (a little low) Math II: 790, Bio (M): 720
GPA: 96.7 (UW), my school doesn’t rank haha.
APs: 5 on BC, 5 on Chem, 5 on World History, 5 on US History [school doesn’t offer that many APs so I self-studied the last two]
School: ranked top 10 high schools by US News and World Report (magnet, competitive)
Current load: Multivariable calculus, Spanish VI, Current Global Issues, English IV, AP Physics C, Engineering Design and Development
(self-studying for AP Spanish Lang and Lit exams, and AP Macro and micro exams)
AP Scholar with distinction
NMSQT Commended (lol a little low for PSATs haha)</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>Model UN: president, international awards (Princeton, UPenn, UNA, etc. 1st places)
Newspaper: editor in chief
Yearbook: editor
Performing arts club: president
Student council participant
Independent research: several national and international awards, published twice (envi sci related)
Varsity rower - good 2k erg score
Drum major of marching band
First chair flutist
Technology student association: gold/silver/bronze achievement awards, 3rd at states</p>

<p>Volunteering</p>

<p>NHS member
Key Club participant
Founded research-mentoring program in my community / volunteer at middle schools around community to mentor kids
Candy striper
Open houses at my high school</p>

<p>Work experience/internships</p>

<p>Barclays Capital (this year)
Science internship in Meadowlands
Stars Challenge program</p>

<p>New Jersey Scholars Program
National Youth Leadership Conference
CTY</p>

<p>White (girl - diversity in sciences), legacy at Brown/Harvard, middle class (ish)
Hook: crew recruit candidate at UPenn, Princeton</p>

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<p>saints- i cant really see anything on your app that would have turned any adcom off…weird</p>

<p>btw aeroangel please redirect people to your thread and stop posting your stats in other people’s ones</p>

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<p>lol whoops, never bothered to do chancing before…</p>

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<p>Oh, and I got into UChicago earlier today. Maybe Penn is just crazy.</p>

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<p>^ What Wharton specifically looks for in an applicant is probably quite different from what a generally undergraduate arts & sciences school looks for. I doubt your Wharton decision is in any way indicative of your competitiveness as an applicant at HYPS. And by the way, no, I am not a ■■■■■.</p>

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<p>bump sssssss</p>