STOP! & please chance me :) ED to upenn

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<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 - AP Scholar w/ Honor...if it helps...)
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 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>

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

2

<p>I’d say a very low chance. You’re AP scores don’t seem impressive and you didn’t take Math Level II and I think most Ivies like to see that. Your SAT score also seems a little low. Maybe you’ll break 2200 and that will raise your chances.</p>

3

<p>I’m gonna disagree, I think you stand a good chance given your apparent amazing ecs, essays and recs. They’re looking for people not numbers as long as your numbers show you can do the work which your SATs do although im not sure about your grades</p>

4

<p>thanks for ur responses!
but bjorika why do you say “very low” chances? Im doing ED to CAS not wharton…if not good chances i thought id have a fair shot at upenn. How much do you think breaking 200 will raise my chances by?</p>

5

<p>I agree, chances are rather low. This is because of GPA/rank (barely breaking top 10% … Penn’s avg is top 3%) and average SAT score … the higher your score the better, of course, but I think your chances overall are below avg w/ sub-2300s. SAT II and AP scores are low … ECs aren’t very outstanding (although I like your research work) … You didn’t elaborate on your awards so it’s hard to say about that … but in general, GPA is the most important factor in admissions, followed by SAT I/II scores, and those are avg/below avg … Still, if Penn is your goal, go for it! This coming from a current quaker ^.^</p>

6

<p>Basically what with<em>one</em>voice said.</p>

<p>It doesn’t matter if you’re applying to CAS or Wharton, you just need to get those SATs and your GPA up.</p>

7

<p>thanks guys…dissapointed but atleast i can have a realisitic view of my chances…</p>

<p>im taking math II, lit & us hist. again in nov. if all happen to be 750+ any SIGNIFICANT change in my chances of getting in…? </p>

<p>thanks for all your inputs!</p>

8

<p>Everything seems to be in place EXCEPT your GPA, which ARE the most important aspects of your application. Your SAT IIs are not terrible, they are probably within the 50% range at UPenn same with your regular SAT, but 3.67 GPA is low.</p>

<p>I’d say if you did ED to Upenn, you would have a 20% chance of getting in, not wonderfully high, but not terrible low either.</p>

<p>Return the favor?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/801399-please-chance-super-indecisive-individual.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/801399-please-chance-super-indecisive-individual.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;