University of Pennsylvania Class of 2011 Official RD Decisions

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<p>Basically, every applicant starts out on the same level. All Penn applicant have steller stats. It is the essay, personal cicumstance and recommendations that make a difference.</p>

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<p>anyone get into huntsman?</p>

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<p>Decision
INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
ARTS AND SCIENCES!
OMG!</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT II:
    -Chem: 740
    -Math 2: 790
    -US History: 760
  • ACT: 33
  • AP/IB taken/scores:
    -Euro: 3
    -Chem: 4
    -English Lang: 5
    -US History: 5
  • GPA weighted: ~99
  • GPA unweighted: NA
  • Rank or % estimate: 1</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: loved my personal essay. hated my why georgetown. super awk. was freaking about this all week. guess it didn’t matter!!!
  • Teacher Recs: no idea
  • Counselor Rec: no idea
  • Hook (if any): none at all</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: NY
  • School Type: small public
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Gender: female
  • Legacy Yes/No: No
  • Recruited Yes/No: No
  • Important ECs: newspaper is my love (lots others too)</p>
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<p>Choose One:
Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Too lazy to list my stats again. In summation, **** penn. I got into Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia to name a few, all of which I did not expect, and rejected from the one ivy I thought I had a chance at.</p>

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<p>:( all the time on the essays…</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to CAS</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (650 CR 640 M 720 W)</li>
<li>ACT: 28</li>
<li>SAT II:570 Literature; 620 US History; 590 Spanish w/Listening</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6/4.5</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):21/577</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis):full IB</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: Spanish HL, World History HL, Math SL + Calc 1st year, French SL, English HL</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):Nat’l Achievement Commended, Pageant award, Nat’l French Exam, Voice of Democracy Certificate of Merit, among others</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Delta GEMS (Pres.), Wasserstein Project, Peer Mediation, Model, Magazine writer, tennis, national honor society</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: —</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Math/English/History Tutor, Babysitter, Church cleaner, Children’s ministry assistant</li>
<li>Summer Activities: LEDA Scholars Program (junior year) @ Princeton, Achievers Summer Program @ Indiana Uni., Pathfinders Summer Camp @ Indiana Uni., visiting family and friends back home in Indiana</li>
<li>Essays:Amazing</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendations: Both amazing (English teacher and my Spanish teacher)</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Really good</li>
<li>Additional Rec: I’m sure it was amazing.</li>
<li>Interview: I thought it was alright/good.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant):AZ</li>
<li>School Type:Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: AA</li>
<li>Gender:Female</li>
<li>Income Bracket: <35K</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, lots of good activities that related to helping community, first generation college student, LEDA Scholar</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: LEDA Scholar, Essays, Recs</li>
<li>Weaknesses: I don’t wanna say SAT scores and GPA. I worked hard. But to others, it may not be the best, but I’m me.</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:See strengths</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Northwestern, USC, NYU, Boston Uni., Syracuse, DePauw, ASU; rej’d only at Stanford and UCLA
*Comments: Just very thankful, humbled, and to God be the glory.</li>
</ul>

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<p>LOL way to bring back the thread from
class of 2011</p>

<p>follow this link for the class of 2014 decisions…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/894853-university-pennsylvania-class-2014-rd-decisions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/894853-university-pennsylvania-class-2014-rd-decisions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>**Wait-listed at SEAS: **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal:
[</em>] SAT Math:
[<em>] SAT Writing:
[</em>] SAT Total:
[<em>] SAT II:
[</em>] ACT: 36 (across the board)
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 5 Bio, 4 APUSH
[</em>] GPA weighted:4.2
[<em>] GPA unweighted:~3.8
[</em>] Rank or % estimate:top 5%</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Common app was good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good, I imagine
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great probably
[</em>] Hook (if any): I’m gay, idk if that counts but I drew on it for my essays </p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:Michigan
[</em>] School Type:Catholic
[<em>] Ethnicity:White
[</em>] Gender:Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No:No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No:No
[li] Important ECs: Ran CC and Track</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Congratulations to everybody who got in. I’ll probably accept a place on the waitlist and keep my fingers crossed, but penn wasn’t my top choice.</p>

<p><em>FOR DEFEREES</em> IF accepted, reasons why you think so, actions you took after being deferred, etc…:</p>

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<p>X-posted to the other thread as well, since I didn’t see this pinned one.</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted (CAS)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (one sitting) - (CR) 730, (M) 770 (WR) 800
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted):[list]
[li] World History: 740[/li][</em>] Chinese with Listening: 760
[<em>] Math II: 800
[</em>] Chemistry: 780
[<em>] Biology-M: 750[/ul]
[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0[/li][</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/~670
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), Chemistry (5), Calculus BC (5)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP English, AP US Gov & Politics, Psychology I/Western Philosophy, AP Biology, Journalism
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): [ul]
[<em>] US Open Music Competition (a few medals)
[</em>] Girl Scout Silver Award (?)
[/ul][/list]
Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):[list]
[li] Science Olympiad (Parent Liaison, Event Leader)[/li][</em>] American Red Cross Club (Co-President)
[<em>] Journalism (Copy Editor), Math Club (Student Advisor)
[</em>] Girl Scouts (Ambassador level; Camporee (annual camping competition) judge, crew member)
[<em>] Math Club
[</em>] California Scholarship Federation[/ul]
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 500+ hours[ul]
[<em>] Chinese culture summer camp counselor & leadership group member
[</em>] Service trip in Thailand - teaching English to children with parents in drug rehabilitation)
[<em>] Summer tutoring at local library
[</em>] Various other smaller community service projects (through Girl Scouts, etc.)[/ul]
[<em>] Summer Activities: Three-day orthopedics program for girls at UCSF
[</em>] Essays: Decent, overall
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: Didn’t read, but she knows me quite well, so hopefully good
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: Fairly decent, though typical
[<em>] Additional Recommendation: Good; from director of volunteer organization
[</em>] Interview: N/A[/list]
Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[<em>] School Type: Large public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese-Chinese
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: > $120,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): N/A
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Grades? Community service? Commitment and involvement regarding extracurricular activities and volunteer work
[<em>] Weaknesses: Nothing particularly outstanding
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Extracurricular activities were typical; not as many leadership positions as I could have held, etc.; however, I think my essays were (more than anything) very honest.
[<em>] Where else were you accepted/rejected/waitlisted:[list]
[li] Accepted: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, Washington University in St. Louis[/li][</em>] Waitlisted: Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, Duke
[li] Rejected: Northwestern, Brown, Yale, Stanford[/ul][/li][/list]
General Comments:
I think a lot of my love for Penn was discovered through researching/writing my essays, and I feel honored to even be on the waitlist! Congratulations to all who were accepted! :)</p>

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<p>all i can say is… F*** YOU PENN.</p>

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<p>Denied. sucks
34 act composite
AP: 5 of english lit and calc ab
good recs
good leadership/ec’s
great essay.</p>

<p>should have taken SAT’s i think. from midwest. not a legacy. only reasons i can come up with for rejection.</p>

<p>oh, i applied to CAS</p>