University of Pennsylvania Class of 2013 Official RD Thread!

<p>pahka we'll **** him up for real</p>

<p>sorry, a little late.</p>

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

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Math 780, Critical Reading 760, Writing 730
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: Literature 750, Math Level 2 750, Biology M 690, Spanish with Listening 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 of 133
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English, AP Calculus, AP Spanish, Physics, Psychology, Economics, Speech, Government, Foods and Nutrition, PE
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commendation, Illinois State Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (district convention secretary, executive board president), cross country (varsity 2 years), scholastic bowl (varsity 4 years, captain, 2nd place in state 2007, elite eight in state 2005), Beta Club (officer), National Honor Society, School Improvement Planning Committee (only student member)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: not much
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours at local summer day camp, 112 hours on church youth group trip to impoverished town to help repair houses of elderly, volunteered with StLouisGreen.com
[<em>] Summer Activities: summer day camp, church youth group trip to impoverished town to help repair houses of elderly
[</em>] Essays: the main essay was pretty good, talked about my love of trying new things and connected that to love of learning, desire for diversity; the short answer about who I'd want to work with was pretty bad, not really much info in it; the supplemental essay was average
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: one of my teacher recs was absolutely amazing, I seriously almost started to cry when I was reading it, she totally understood me perfectly, I loved it; the other one was boring
[</em>] Counselor Rec: idk, my counselor is pretty worthless so it probably wasn't anything near what I would like it to be
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes; did i get any? ef no.
[</em>] Intended Major: sociology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): the ill-side (illinois, haha)
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): vatican city
[<em>] School Type: public, not at all competitive, I think I'm only the second person to attend an ivy in the history of the school
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I played up the rural small town thing (even though my town really isn't that rural. I only live 10 minutes away from St Louis, but we're still considered rural bc there's a lot of farms around... whatever, best of both worlds)
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[</em>] Strengths: perfect GPA while still maintaining the strongest possible courseload; dedication to student council beyond school; my essay
[*] Weaknesses: white male, extracurriculars aren't extremely stellar or anything</p>

<p>I won't be too far from Penn so maybe I'll come visit and join in the fun =)</p>

<p>swarthmore? haverford? drexeL?</p>

<p>Honeybunny: the preview before post feature would really benefit you. </p>

<p>Oh, and you better not be chinese, or Asian for that matter, because if you are, you are a disgrace to my entire race you arrogant twat. I hope I won't be seeing you at Wharton next year cause your rescind letter is in the mail you ignorant jerk.</p>

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Funny how you guys even state that my 2260 isn't that good and yet you defend the idea that people below 2200 are still "smart".

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<p>Less hilarious and more logical if you think in context. Your 2260 is definitely impressive, but it does not elevate you to the status of being able to go around spitting on anybody who got less than a 2200. Now the SATs are a test, and like any test, you need skill to do well. Not necessarily knowledge or great brains, skill. The SAT is a test you have a to game, not a test you have to study rigorously for. Granted, not everybody has the capability to do so, but even within those who can, there are idiots. Scoring above a 2200 is definitely impressive, although you'll have to do more than that before you get your deity title.</p>

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Sorry people from CAS but if you know anything about Upenn, they are clearly labeled as the "kids who don't know what to do with their lives" in the university. No offense but CAS students are what most of us would call the embodiment of rejects from HYPS. But it's okay, you still get to carry the prestigious name "Upenn."

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<p>Absolutely. This is an absolutely 100% true statement...until you think about the fact that philly is a very different city from Cambridge, New Haven or Palo Alto. Furthermore, this notion that being a HYPS reject (harsh word) puts you at the dregs of society is a very interesting one. From your point of view, anybody who fails at these four prestigious universities are destined to fail in life. If we're to believe this, then that means most of humanity should be dead...Darwin sure screwed up huh? </p>

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Going to Wharton won't make us instantly into Donald Trumps? Yeah I guess you are right but it'll make us pretty damn close to it. Starting salary with bonuses at Goldman & Saches reached up to $80-$90k for most people. Employers view a Wharton undergrad degree almost as an MBA. These are true facts.

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You're hoping to be a very close mirror image of Donald Trump and you're hoping Wharton will transform you into that. Unfortunately, your upbringing and environment has already transformed you into a massive tool and that sets you on a one way path for being as popular in life as you are around here. </p>

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Am i talking too realistically here? If believing that I didn't make it to Wharton makes you feel superior, then feel free. Yes my SAT score of 2260 is useless now that I made it to Wharton. But to the rejects, yes SAT is a huge deal and I will re-state my advise for future applicants: If you do not have above a 2200 in your SATs, don't even bother applying to such a prestigious, high-class school like Wharton. Feel free to apply to CAS or SEAS where they students it is generally much "lesser". Thanks.

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Ok, a few things. I think you'd benefit from learning that if you're going to be condescending, you have to make a post without errors. Not knowing the difference between advice and advise, or constructing a sentence as god-awful as "'Feel free to apply to CAS or SEAS where they students it is generally much "lesser'." kind of backfires on you. Your main point is that a 2200 on the SATs is a minimal requirement to get into Wharton. People have already proved to you otherwise with students who have been accepted into Wharton without the 2200. Obviously, reemphasizing this point to you would be useless, since oddly, for someone who clearly did very well on his critical reading section in the SATs, you seemingly suck at reading and interpreting the posts of others, I won't bother.</p>

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*Oh and to the Wharton admits. Congratulations, welcome to the life of luxury and infinite opportunities. You will witness first hand how it feels as your friends in UNC Chapel Hill are running around New York begging for companies to admit them while you are sitting on your la-z-boy chair as employers line up, begging for you to work at their company; both in America or anywhere else in the world.

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As I've mentioned previously, many Wharton admits may experience what you have outlined but unfortunately, the fact that you're a massive tool overshadows the impressive title of "Wharton" on your resume.</p>

<p>Have a fun time at Wharton, and congrats to all the Penn admits.</p>

<p>Now everybody can stop feeding the troll. You may look, but don't feed.</p>

<p>troll or not, why waste your time arguing over ridiculous sh</p>

<p>The sad part is that there ARE a few kids like that at Penn, troll or not.</p>

<p>Sad part is there are a few kids like that at every school</p>

<p>Sad part is that Wharton students can make more than 80-90 with bonuses</p>

<p>i really can't believe that people like HoneyBunny might be joining us at Wharton come fall..</p>

<p>guys.. alright.. truth be told i love a good internet battle. Yet, i will stop feeding the troll out of respect for my future classmates wishes ;). Ha I love thinkin about that. But... can we just threaten to beat his ass the second he gets to school so he doesn't enroll?? I mean honestly one of us could room with this prick! Let's just whoop his ass and settle all this. This reccesion is supposedly a byproduct of corporate greed. Well I see another Enron exec in this forum, and out of resepct for future people's fortunes that can be ruined by this prick. I saw we whoop the f-u-cck out of him. I might be a stupid hick out of ohio who grew up on a farm all his life, who probably is less mature than most of you and unable to control himself, but god damn this kid is a real loser.</p>

<p>Lol, hey pahka, I'm graduating with hicks (moved to hickland Canada from Toronto and loving it! :P )</p>

<p>haha the ivy-hick.. it will be a stereotpe soon.</p>

<p>"He enjoys sitting down and reading a good book, as long as he can do it in the back of his pickup truck. Commonly seen wearing a cardigan or tweed and sporting a camoflauge trucker hat. Known for ridiculous alcoholism, but the ability to beat a hangover with a cup of earl grey tea. Teeth optional..pocket protector.. mandatory"</p>

<p>lol, copyright the movement while you can!
Ugh we still have chunks of snow up here but I can't wait to start riding again in the fields</p>

<p>haha snows been gone for weeks here. haha butt my dirtbike is currently non-functional because i didn't put stabilizer in over the winter and I have to clean out the carb. haha i should add that to the stereotype. "Unable to take care of simple equipment.. but will kill you if you mess with his hard drive."</p>

<p>Go mudboarding in the meantime? Insanely fun in sloshy melting snow + clay mixture!
Hahaha I was finger painting with my kid brother and he mauled my laptop with paint. I'm just glad that it's still functionning</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2270 - 730R, 780M, 760W (71 gram 12 essay)
[</em>] ACT: 34 - 35 Eng, Sci, Math, 30 Read, 32 Eng/Writ (9)
[<em>] SAT II: 760 math II, 770 chem, 780 phys, 790 korean w/list, 117 TOEFL iBT
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 100 weighted
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): world hist, eng lang/comp, physics b (5), us hist (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: ap chem, calc bc, eng lit/comp, comparative gov/pol, spanish
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): intel semi, national merit commended, ap scholar w/honor
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): tae kwon do (junior master), science olympiad, newspaper(editor), etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: tutoring
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: nursing home
[<em>] Summer Activities: intel research
[</em>] Essays: alright
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good but prolly bland
[<em>] Additional Rec: good from research mentor
[</em>] Interview: horrible, forgot about interview and had to reschedule
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yup
[</em>] Intended Major: mech. engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): from south korea, got transferred to regular pool later cuz of status change to permanent resident (hopefully)
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: korean
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$130k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: moved from korea 6th grade, focus on mech. engineering (sent intel paper)
[<em>] Weaknesses: grades, screw up interview, essays (?)
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to yale, uc berkeley, and stony brook so dont really care, but i got waitlisted to harvard, mit, columbia, penn, cornell, johns hopkins, and cooper union, so im kind of wondering what i may have done wrong with my application(s) that caused so many (SEVEN out of 12) waitlists… oh and rejected from princeton/stanford.</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: anyway dudes(and dudettes) if u wanna get into penn do better than me and get better grades (and don’t screw up interview) good luck!!!</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>

<p>Date applied: Decemberish, Regular Decision
Date decision postmarked/received: 3/31 online, 4/2 mail
Accepted at which school/major: Wharton, Business Admin.</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT Total: 1940 M: 650, CR: 660, WR: 630,
ACT: 29
SAT Subject Tests: Literature- 610, U.S.History- 630
GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.26
Rank: 1/86
AP/IB classes: Calculus and Spanish Language. Last year we didn’t have AP classes, but I took the U.S. History and English Language tests (and passed.)</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: pretty good
Teacher Recs: really good
Counselor Rec: good
EC highlights: Volleyball- 4 years, Golf- 4 years, ASB (Student Gov’t)- 4 years, Drama (Plays)- 4 years, Cast and Crew, Choir- 4 years, Academic Decathlon- 2 years, National Honor Society- 3 years, Some volunteer work-tutoring, teen council, half marathon for AIDS</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: California
School Type: Parochial, small. 450 kids.
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female
Other Factors, hook?: I answered the optional question. Lol. I don’t know if that’s a hook.
Interview: No
Recruited: No</p>

<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info: Congrats to all who were accepted!</p>

<p>Are you implying that kids from UNC are below you or are less intelligent? I’m sorry, sir, but you are sadly mistaken. </p>

<p>Sure, a company may hire someone with a Wharton degree over someone with a KF degree, but as soon as your boss picks up on your pretentious, brown nosing aura/attitude, you’ll be out on your honeybunny a$$ and a UNC graduate will fill your former position. Good luck, you pedantic pile of garbage! :)</p>