<p>so........ any other bashing</p>
<p>i applied to wharto
because i love business hands down (even tho im a bleeding heart liberal inside haha stonepandas) </p>
<p>the college, however, is awesome!!! i might do a intl relations major there as well (if penn accepts me) on top of the wharton degreeThey teach my family's native language, Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), which no other ivy teaches! Penn has some of the most random languages offered, i seriously think its overlooked just because its confused with penn state (ugh, theres a school to bash lol). Bottom line, penn is an ivy, wharton definitley does have higher standards for admission than the college, but offers a very narrow, specialized education (which is why you'd be smart to dbl major or at least mjnor in something in the college, so you retain some creativity and humanity)</p>
<p>So anyone who bashes the college, you suck. Anyone who bashes wharton, you suck worse. kthxbye lol</p>
<p>starvin marvin was from ehiopia</p>
<p>yeah african languages...not that i studied amharic. maybe one day.
ethioman - if you come to penn then you should definitely check out all the ethiopian restaurants in west philly. i say all, as far as i know there's only three, but i'd totally be interested in getting an opinion from someone who (presumably) knows what authentic ethiopian cuisine tastes like.</p>
<p>My interviewer got a minor in Swahilli...and ended up working for the US embassy in a nice, big office in DC...now that's what I call ahelluva cool job.</p>
<p>hehe I speak Swahili</p>
<p>Jambo .</p>
<p>no ethiopian cooking beats my moms haha</p>
<p>just kidding lol but yeah if i get in we'll have to meet up and check those restaurants out!</p>
<p>...and faux...that was just totally unnecessary, i'll chalk it up to immaturity. people actually do starve in ethiopia, it really isnt all that funny.</p>
<p>btw there is an awesome ethiopian restaurant near campus...</p>
<p>Catch,</p>
<p>While I find most of your comments to be logical and truthful, saying that the poster's stats are "not even good" by Penn's standards is a comment that is both unfair and untrue....consider the people who you hurt by saying that a 1440, 800, 750, 750 is not even good. I'm sure that you deserve everything that comes to you, as evidenced by your early acceptance into one of America's best and brightest universities, but for your sake, and for that of others, do refrain from elevating yourself above everyone else. Best of luck to you. In reading these boards for that past four months, there is no doubt that success is in your future, so long as you can understand that there exist those who are of lesser intelligence than you--and there are those who are of greater intelligence. That's simply what makes the world go round. God Bless.</p>
<p>"wharton definitley does have higher standards for admission "
Whadup ethi. I actually heard that this was not true. As far as The College and Wharton go, Wharton places emphasis on math etc. while The College places emphasis on "the overall student" (they'll ectually reject students who are too lopsided).</p>
<p>Justanothercanuck: What I think Catchy meant was that she expected 1600, 800, 800, 800, 800, 800, 800, 800, 1/650 sort of thing.</p>
<p>people starve everywhere</p>
<p>there seems to be two different threads here
one bashing me, and the other discussing ethiopian food or lack thereof</p>
<p>Pandy got my point...for somebody to be that arrogant, I was expecting the 4000 Val package...not saying 1440 is BAD AT ALL. Dont get me wrong.</p>
<p>To stick out w. the numbers in the applicant pool to the Ivies, his/her stats are average, making him/her an average candidate. An average candidate means that he/she will be read against thousands and thousands more less or more qualified students (numbers-wise) than he/she. However, he/she just made it seem like that he/she is so above Penn that she/he can call it a safety, and very very very very very very very few ppl can EVER call an Ivy a safety, except when you have a 4000/Val and found the cure for cancer...to have "good-great" stats during the regular rounds means that he/she must be VERY competitive stats wise, and I just found it surprising that he/she did not have the stats I was expecting. The 1440 is a lovely score, because that's equivalent of the middle 20%-30% (more or less) of students who apply to Penn, he/she has a shot, in no way did I mean to say that all chances for Semiptern were gone...I was just expecting a lot more from somebody who is so arrogant...</p>
<p>good point pandas about the lopsidedness, definitley true</p>
<p>and yes, people starve everywhere, faux. however, that doesnt make it ok for you to joke about it.</p>
<p>Yeah, calling an Ivy a "safety/match" is simply rediculous. It's cocky and it's ugly. </p>
<p>Good luck at HYPS though!!!!!!!!! ;)</p>
<p>I really wouldn't want to go to stanford. I really dont' like the west coast.</p>
<p>too bad, the west coast is a great place to be, though stanford did give me some weird vibes.</p>
<p>oh well, can we get back to the bashing , after all it is topic of choice on this thread</p>
<p>btw- yes I do consider penn a safety/match (closer to a match) not simply cause of my stats which by themselves arent spectacular but the context within which they are placed.:)</p>
<p>calculating admissions by stats is something that top schools do NOT do(except in the most spectacular of cases, which I am not)</p>
<p>I just think that accepted people get mad that someone refers to their school as safety... lol, I learned a long time ago to not put much stock in the words of other faceless anonymous posters... you can call me a free thinker or even a tad haughty but the fact of the matter is I prefer to be truthful and not play to what's "popular" ... characteristics which will help me wherever I end up going </p>
<p>so there....</p>
<p>safety Safety safety</p>
<p>lol, some people need to chilax</p>
<p>you think you're gonna stand out against 15,000+ other applicants? yeahh ok.</p>
<p>"calculating admissions by stats is something that top schools do NOT do(except in the most spectacular of cases, which I am not)" - penn as well as princeton harvard yale and columbia have a system of calculations with various things weighted (inlcuding gpa, sats, and sat iis)....look at the academic index; what colleges use is something like that but a bit more complex....</p>
<p>sem, im sry, but its not realistic for you to get RD into many good schools with the info you have given us.....considering the fact that schools like princeton accept half their class ED (with a 20+% acceptance rate) and have an overall acceptance rate close to 9%, the RD acceptance rate is miniscule.....concerning penn, you have somewhere around a 25% chance of getting in IMO, if you call that "safe", then go ahead...my friend with a 1500, 4.0 got reject by penn early (and he has no red flags or anything)...i know a few 1530+ ppl that got deferred (all with amazing stats).....however, some people with "worse" stats got in.....my point here is that admission is VERY hard to predict, therefore saying anything is a "safety" is plain stupid, since NO ONE knows what the colleges look for specifically.....</p>
<p>leo
huntsman '09</p>