<p>For all of you all worried about PENN SAS early decision, heres a kid from my public school that got in (we are located right below harlem)</p>
<p><strong>NO JOKE</strong></p>
<p>low 90s average, class rank slightly under 30%,
got a D- in AP CALC (i didnt even know they had D- until he got one)
NEW YORK CITY ASIAN MALE</p>
<p>was on 2 clubs, not president of either
ran track for 2 - 3 years and wrote an essay about track
attended church faithfully for most of his waking life</p>
<p>did his essays on november 1st (pretty impresisve asctually)</p>
<p>he DID get a 1440 SAT tho, nice…</p>
<p>EXCEPT HE GOT
690 writing,
his other sat2s were in the 60th percentile and 23rd%</p>
<p>NO LEGACY
NO HOOK
FINANCIAL AID RECIPIENT
HAD TO TAKE HIS BACK UP TO PROM
AND LOST 10 DOllars on a poker game coming home for a track meet once</p>
<p>I’m a little tired and I might hvae rushed this but all the info above is accurate, no joke…even the funny bits, no joke. kinda makes you feel better eh?</p>
<p>1440 is an asian fail :(
Everyone writes essays about track, that sounds like BS right there
two clubs?
top 30%? maybe if he went to a top private school. did he?
25 percentile on SAT2??
LOL he got a D minus and still got in. props to him man.</p>
<p>i'm not sure if the caps are because you think calc is easy or hard, but i just wanted to say that calc is NOT fun ><em>< well, i guess it depends on who you are, cuz i didn't like calc at all but my friend loved it. our difference in grades shows that: he got an A and i got a C ></em>< though my friend is a total science/math person and i'm a language arts person - that probably explains why he liked it and i didnt lol. and i don't think a 1440 is bad at all - even for asians. i guess i'm just thankful my parents aren't the sterotypical asian parents who drive their kids to study till they die from info-overload lol</p>
<p>yea, though this kid's stats might make me feel a little better, it also makes me think "what are the chances of another such miracle?" o well...time to look at other schools...</p>
<p>Hey, you never know. This college admissions process is really a game. People with low scores sometimes get in--people with amazing stats don't. Guess you just gotta find some way to rise above the rest, in any way possible!</p>
<p>Ok, the author of this thread failed to mention that this kid:
1) Cured cancer
2) Saved dying children in hurricanes
3) Is vice-president of the UN</p>
<p>Hahha, j/k, but he was probably a recruit or something...or he won insanely good science awards like Westinghouse.</p>
<p>I like how you say school right below harlem and yet forget to add that this was the highest ranked public school on that top 100 high schools for HYP students lol.</p>
<p>But still thats some luck though. Nothing special. Oh well maybe he is some crazy kung fu fighting, soccer playing, swahili speaking, self made multimillionaire asian kid. No one knows :cool:</p>
<p>The person described above is me, and YES, the information has been embellished.</p>
<p>I had a low to mid 90s average which ranks in the top 30% of my class,
my SAT score was the 1560, not 1440,
I ran track for three years, was captain.
I was in two clubs, was president of neither. However, in these clubs, I did win a city-wide economics competition and got to meet Ben Bernanke (future chairman of the fed)</p>
<p>However,</p>
<p>I did write all my essays on Nov 1 (I applied to huntsman so i had to write three. I didn't get in)
I did get a D-minus is calculus.
I am an asian male who recieves financial aid
I did take my backup to prom :</p>
<p>I now live in the quad and play football as a walk on. From meeting a whole host of people from unique backgrounds, I've determined that Penn (and other colleges as well) are interested in just two things. First, they look for an indication of your ability to be successful over a long period of time (i.e. grades and indications of this quality throughout your application). Next, they look to see that you have interests, that your skills would fit somewhere in the Penn community. That's all.</p>
<p>29 on ACT
5- us history
5- world history
4- bio</p>
<p>sat ii's
bio 710
us history 700</p>
<p>im hispanic, u know, typical first generation, dad worked picking tomatoes, mom took care of little rich kids
unweighted gpa 3.9/4.0</p>
<p>AP courses this year: calc ab, physics c, french, government</p>
<p>leadership: vice president of mu alpha theta, secretary of some other club</p>
<p>I enlisted into the national guard, so I went to basic training as a junior, so I wrote about that experience and how I was squad leader and all the crap that happened over there and how it changed me</p>