<p>@carcar: you don’t need to fax a follow on unless someone with your exact name is applying from your high school. Please assume the office workers aren’t utter incompetents. </p>
<p>You’re fine.</p>
<p>I keep looking back over my essays and thinking how there’s so much I want to change…so paranoid and it’s making me really upset. Any advice?</p>
<p>You must have gone over everything before submitting so I’m sure its fine, trust your initial judgement. If you really have to, make the changes for your other schools.</p>
<p>My essays are essentially locked up, not touching them. Just focus on other schools, just in case Penn doesn’t work out </p>
<p>Almost 3 weeks guys!</p>
<p>can it hurt if i send a follow up? my letter doesn’t say my school name because its from an outside source</p>
<p>Guess who is applying with 2.4K, 800s in five subjects and 4.0 GPA?!</p>
<p>^ yeah. Just look for the person with the sprained elbow. He injured himself patting his back too profusely.</p>
<p>@Grandison</p>
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<p>On a side note, had my interview via Skype yesterday. Think it went really well!</p>
<p>Should I send 780 World History or retake in December? I genuinely can hit .8K and I just think that 800 looks better than anything beginning with less than 8. Seriously, do not judge me please. I want the best.</p>
<p>If you’re this mark obsessed I sense an imminent rejection. Take the time that you’re spending obsessing over marks and go do an internship at a multinational like me, run a marathon across Africa like someone I know, or do some private research like many others. And if you’re already doing that then do more. Do some more meaningful things cus bumping a 780 to 800 isn’t meaningful at all.</p>
<p>I can understand the way you reason but I have really good ECs; I did all I could in my environment and the only thing to improve right now would be that score. Also, why on earth would my obsession imply a rejection. instead of five 800s and 780, I will have six 800s. Makes difference doesn’t it. Do not say that 20 does not make sense. what makes sense is straight 800s.</p>
<p>Obsessing over scores, especially such a small increase on already brilliant scores shows a clear lack of depth and character. Colleges want well rounded students or specialised students but not students that are there for nothing but the marks. Obsessing over SATs in your situation tells colleges that you are that type of person. There is a reason why schools like Yale look down in taking the SAT I’s more than two or three times.</p>
<p>@T26E4 LOL my thoughts exactly. If he comes across like that in his interviews, he wil be going to his safety for sure.</p>
<p>Has the tracking feature in anyone’s MyApplicant Portal been activated?
Mine hasn’t yet.</p>
<p>Also, any speculations as to the exact date the results will be released? Mid-December’s only 20 or so days away!</p>
<p>Mine hasn’t either. No one’s has as far as I know. </p>
<p>@ThinkingTeen the dp reported the 16th at 5pm eastern.</p>
<p>interviewer was my relative so yeah, don’t bother with that. Should be more than fine. What is wrong with striving to be the best.</p>
<p>There is a fine line between confident and smarmy…</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure you’re striving for the best here. You’re showing off and that’s not okay. There’s a way of doing things: quietly with dignity.</p>
<p>Harrovian, that might be your way of doing “things,” but I am different. I am not trying to show off, I wanted to engage in discussion and be part of Penn 18 hopefuls on this forum. And about dignity: having served in volunteer camps in Nigeria and endured so many difficulties that changed me as a person and broadened my perspective, I feel that my dignity is in its place.</p>
<p>If the punch line in the essay was, “I went to help to help them only to find out I helped myself”, I believe it has already been written few thousand times.</p>