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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>wow guys. I just read all your posts (skipping pages 17 to 32 lol) and i feel like a stalker b/c i know you all and yet NONE OF YOU KNOW ME.</p>

<p>so, I applied to Huntsman knowing I have no shot at it but hopefully they'll feel bad about rejecting me and let me into the college lol. that's right, i'm huntsman and NOT wharton!</p>

<p>someone mentioned earlier how they're from Arizona, and finally let go of the Stanfahhd and Hahvahhd thing after meeting a guy in their parents' restaurant? that was sooo funny, and would prob. have made a killer essay.</p>

<p>I came here after my EA-Chicago friend sent me the link. Can I please say, I am SO NERVOUS. I refuse to read the horror story archives. Only one other guy in my class is applying ED Penn (Wharton)...he's ranked 10 spots lower than me. BUT! thanks to the pioneering efforts of another classmate, she started a petition to eliminate class rank so now it's OPTIONAL! he and I decided not to disclose it lol. I think I'm pretty well-qualified...but I am so terrified and...well, usually I tell people "You have no idea how scared I am and how badly I want to go here" and here, I know that you DO all know! I'm almost shaking as I write this, and my stomach hurts. I want to go to Penn so badly. Too bad I'm going to Rutgers lol.</p>

<p>Yeah, I loved Cornell but it was way too far away...and now I'm looking at the Why Cornell essay and i'm like NOOOOOOOOOO!</p>

<p>Can you imagine? at the moment you guys are all posting and chatting and talking...will that change once we get the envelopes?</p>

<p>My language-of-choice for Huntsman was Russian...so does that mean in a few days I get a letter saying "so, PROVE IT!"? And what does that mean, then? They liked me enough to check if I can speak Russian? Or is it a formality and everyone has to do it?</p>

<p>I don't even care about Huntsman anymore lol. (BLASPHEMY i know.) I would happily blithely go to the College and be happy for the rest of my life. Besides, my parents were like "we fled Russia as Jewish refugees. You're NOT doing study abroad there" lol.</p>

<p>I haven't worn my Penn pants since the summer. And I bought Penn sandals after stubbing my toe against the statue of Penn's first headmaster and having it bleed all over my shoe during the info session (a good sign? i think NOT). Whatever, it made for good essay-fodder. I haven't worn those since September. It is such a jinx and so presumptuous.</p>

<p>I'm also sooooo nervous that my audio tape didn't get added to my application; i had to send it separately. On it are 3 piano pieces. One of them is a 12-minute long Brahms sonata that I played with a cellist friend of mine (valedictorian, EA MIT and Chicago, but likes Caltech and Yale and Harvard too.) I played that 17-page long sonata from memory. they BETTER get it or else.</p>

<p>LOL i think the reason my insanity came to a head today is because over Thanksgiving, one of our classmates got into UVA, her top school, and we were all congratulating her and so happy for her (reallllly small school, i know where everyone in my classes is applying) but then we realized that she doesn't care anymore, she's DONE. She didn't even suck up to our bio teacher today because...well...she didn't have to! (i know that colleges still look at ur grades but w/e).</p>

<p>Plus, I hung out with my friend's older brother over break, a sophomore at Penn. He was so much fun, and I was like "if this is a regular Penn student, I'll be at home." he was telling me all these great things about the school and...AHHHHHHH I DESPERATELY NEED TO GET IN!</p>

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<p>thats a pretty long post.</p>

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<p>hell yes it is. i had to make up for lost time lol</p>

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<p>yeah choco, if that were any of us posting we wouldve broken it into 20 parts so we could get post count credit!</p>

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<p>oh and here's another interesting viewpoint. I was talking to my friend and said I couldn't bear to get rejected...deferral i could deal with, but rejection would kill me.</p>

<p>Jack: deferral sucks
Jack: i refuse to be deferred
Jack: it'll make me mad!
Me: ugh yes
Jack: im not good enough, but we'll consider you again because we still want your money but there's a possibility we won't find people that we really want
Me: ugh that's an AWFUL way to look at it
Me: i much prefer, "your school didn't let you take APs until this year, pretty much, so let's wait a bit and see how you do in college classes"
Jack: it's true. college is a business</p>

<p>that just killed me lol.</p>

<p>i'm a girl btw. but i'm 16 b/c i skipped a grade. :)</p>

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<p>renny skipping grades is cool.</p>

<p>damn right! post pump!</p>

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<p>you're right. that was really dumb of me lol. never again!</p>

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<p>awww, renny, pages 16 and below was before my time! are you a guy or a girl?</p>

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<p>how are we on the count anyway? because can I please say, I am so read to yell that Princeton sucks in any context possible :)</p>

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<p>whoops, just saw you say above that youre a girl. are you asian? i feel like this forum is being dominated by asians, i want a white female buddy! (although catch makes homemade tea, so i forgive her!)</p>

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<p>i'm a girl. a very little one, actually. I was 4'11 until very recently...everyone was sooo upset when I told them I broke 5 feet. They were proud to have a legal midget in their class. (I've been the shortest in my grade SINCE kindergarten lol). tomorrow's the shot for the yearbook where the most enormous kid in our grade gets to lift me up three feet in the air to contrast the tall/shortness.</p>

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<p>wow, didnt mean to come across as racist or anything, im just lonely! but i <3 diversity and all that good stuff</p>

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<p>yeah this forum needs more white people. no offensive intended.</p>

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<p>hahah yes of course. i'm sure you wrote about how much you loved diversity in your Why Penn essay. (even though my friend at Penn told me that's the kiss of death. he was like, they like to hear stuff about their school, specifics. and sent me a website to find potential groups i'd join. so i fell in love with Kelly Writers' House and a few of their choirs, and voila! a Why Penn essay was born, complete with hemorrhaging toe...see my first post lol.)</p>

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<p>well I'm pretty damn white. Parents both born in Moscow, and I'm Jewish too. Yay for me lol</p>

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<p>aww crap. i talked about the diversity of interest...</p>

<p>but i did mention clubs id like to join...</p>

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<p>yeah, my why penn essay was more specific, i stayed over for a weekend so i had some good material</p>

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<p>Frisbee Club <333</p>

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<p>i talked about how my evolution of knowing about penn over my lifetime... because ive heard about penn all my life obviously...</p>

<p>then i talked about how awesome penn is in anthropology with their museum and all...</p>

<p>and then i talked about clubs...</p>

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<p>heh i visited twice. the second time i went with my best guy friend Ken Chin, who was also going to apply early at the time (engineering). And I was on the line for food in the dining hall, and this girl was wearing a latin dance jacket for Penn. and i was like "oh wow, you dance? I danced for 8 years." And as we waited for our pasta i struck up a convo with her and another guy on the line. It ended with them being like "What year are you?" And I was like "oh, i'm a senior, but I'm applying early." And they were like "ohhh, you're in HIGH SCHOOL? don't worry, you'll get in." pleeeease let them be right!</p>

<p>venting with you guys feels so much better than reading Hamlet. i had to memorize another soliloquy and write it down for a test grade AGAIN today. but i was so thrown off by that girl's Virginia acceptance and happy for her but also jealous of course that i totally forgot lines 27 and 28 and instead just wrote "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" in huge letters lol</p>