STOP! & please chance me :) ED to upenn

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<p>Me:
South Asian/Indian
residency: New Jersey (transfered from MI)
Applying to College of Arts & Sciences (ED) </p>

<p>Family
100K, Parents went to college in India. No siblings. </p>

<p>Grades
UW: 3.67
Freshman year was 3.8 Soph. year 4.0, Junior year: 3.3 (Death in the family-grandfather in India) Colleges dont see the year by year break down of GPA but junior year was a dissapointment.
W: Not Calculated By School
Rank: 27/283 (Top 10%) (End of soph year i was #4. fml...again colleges dont see my soph. rank)</p>

<p>SAT:
1st attempt: W:580 (9 essay) CR: 630 M: 650 [[1860]]
2nd attempt: W: 720 (10 essay) CR: 690 M: 760 [[2170]]
3rd attempt: FIND OUT TOMORROW MORNING! will post here. </p>

<p>SAT II:
Math I - 770
US His - 720
Lit - 680</p>

<p>AP Exams (all junior year)
Calculus AB - 4
US History - 3
Statistics - 3
physics:mech - 3</p>

<p>Letters of Rec.
College Professor/PhD Researcher. He let me read it. Its glowingly wondering lol, if they accepted kids solely on recs, i would be in Harvard right now.
Guidance Counselor. Also let me read it. Its just as good as the one above. </p>

<p>Leadership
Chess Club Founder + president
model un secretary
tennis team jv co captain
student council executive representative
Chosen by mayor as community leader</p>

<p>Awards
I have 1 fairly prestigious international award
4 Significant national awards
6 Significant state awards
2 scholarships (instrumental violin - 2nd rating at states)
Many regional awards (not including to collges - no space :/ not that they care)</p>

<p>Science:
-Collaborated with Ph.D researcher on a Neural Stem Cell project its really indepth and wonderful.
Performed independent research on genetics and genetic variation.
-Also performed research which focused on the genomic analysis of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana, and how the genes in this organism compare to other species.
- Selected into many selective science programs.
- 1st place at states in many science competitions. Even went to national competitions.</p>

<p>Sports
varisty tennis
varisty track</p>

<p>195 hours of volunteering/community service</p>

<p>College Essay
- 15 yr. experienced ap literature teacher said its one of the best essays she's ever read </p>

<p>I know its long. but what do you guys think? UPenn has around a 30% ED acc. rate....what about me?</p>

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<p>i also have 8 months of work experience at Kumon Inc.</p>

<p>will have taken 13 AP’s or College Credit courses upon graduation </p>

<p>Senior year courses (the imp. ones haha):</p>

<p>AP BIO
AP CHEM
AP PSYSCHOLOGY
AP COMPUTER SCIENCE A
AP LITERATURE
AP CALC BC</p>

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<p>i think you have a good shot, very tough school though. Be prepared for a rejection just incase. Would love to see your essay, or a part of it. The one that the AP literature teacher loved. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>I was going down your list and initially thought you didn’t have a very good chance. Penn gets a good deal of students from your state, you will unfortunately be hurt by affirmative action as asian students are an overrepresented minority, you are in the low end of the top 10% for the time colleges will see (this sucks as it sounds like the timing was a fluke), your GPA is on the low end and your SAT is in the middle of the road. . .then I got down to your ECs and awards and if they are as stellar as they sound then you are still in a competitive position. I really can’t judge your awards without knowing more specifics, but without them I’d give you maybe a 1/10 chance at acceptance, with them I’d say it’s closer to 5/10. All in all though I wish you the best of luck; I know you are probably crazy nervous about this as I’m biting my nails waiting for the ED results myself. Will you chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania-2012/801468-chances-wharton-ed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania-2012/801468-chances-wharton-ed.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think you have all the necessary stats! Good luck! :)</p>