<p>^ Ditto. 10char</p>
<p>I’m sure necrophlliac is exaggerating a little. No one can possibly work 120 hrs a week and admission officer is sure to get suspicious. So don’t get any ideas guys!</p>
<p>I’ve read plenty of articles though (if anyone REALLY cares, I’ll go fishing for them as proof – they’re out there) that indicate admissions officers DO pay attention to hours – if things are unusually high, they will definitely get suspicious if rec letters don’t follow suit. Nobody’s going to work that much and have it go unnoticed by the faculty.</p>
<p>“Oh, yeah, he’s great in class, asks very thought-provoking questions, and engages other students well, blahblah… oh, I almost forgot to mention that he’s bat**** insane and is involved in every club at the school, works many internships on the side, and his body somehow manages to sustain its own cold fusion to allow him to get by on three hours of sleep per night.”</p>
<p>Well, my teachers for instance have NO IDEA what I do outside of school. My guidance counselor knows, but all teachers know is the homework, discussions, questions, and love of learning thing. So I could look strange in the eyes of an Adcom (and I probably will anyways lol) but it would be because my teachers don’t care/know about my ECs/Awards. </p>
<p>I could win ISEF and they wouldn’t know. Seriously, my teachers teach, but in the end, they really don’t care too much about us.</p>
<p>Legendofmax:</p>
<p>I did this the whole first semester of senior year. The 3 hour sleep a day thing I mean. o_o I must be a mutant or something.</p>
<p>Who knows man… he coulda made up his acceptance to Huntsman lol. Thing is, you nvr know wut he actually put on his app.</p>
<p>skipping right to the end and saying
tl:dr</p>
<p>i’m sure penn is big enough for you to avoid him. Even if you end up in the same class.</p>
<p>0.o</p>
<p>wow. I reallyyy hope all people at Wharton/in the business field aren’t like this. if so I might have to reconsider career choices…</p>