<p>Nvilla,
thanks!!!</p>
<p>I must clarify. What I meant is that not submitting the optional essay will not hurt you. If you submit something bad/poorly written, then yes, that will probably have a negative impact on your application. </p>
<p>Because it’s optional, they probably don’t give it much weight, but if you have a good essay, this will only help.</p>
<p>Transfer for sophomore year to CAS.
Was rejected RD last year.
From Pennsylvania</p>
<p>High School-public
Rank: 10/174
GPA: 3.96 UW
SAT: 2040 (M660, CR 710, W 670)
SAT II: US Hist: 730, World Hist: 670 Math I: 600
Class Vice President, NHS, etc.</p>
<p>College-private, liberal arts in Pennsylvania
1st sem GPA: 3.89
Class Treasurer
County government intern
Taking two 200 levels and a 300 level freshman year.</p>
<p>Can’t wait til May!!!</p>
<p>how much weight do you guys think they put on the midterm grade report? I think im getting all A- =/</p>
<p>I hope not too much because I think I will have a B =/</p>
<p>Who here is not doing the optional essay? I didn’t. Fact is, writing isn’t really my strong point and I doubt the optional essay could help me much. Besides, I’m applying as a computer science major in the college of engineering.</p>
<p>I didn’t do the optional essay either.</p>
<p>Do they send log in info so we can check to see if stuff was received?</p>
<p>Yeah, I applied mid-February and got my log-in stuff pretty soon thereafter.</p>
<p>@arcadefire: yea they should send you a link verifying that they received your application soon after you submitted it (if you did commonapp, atleast). </p>
<p>Applying as: incoming sophomore applying to CAS (health and societies)
Current school: top 20 college
HS GPA: 4.0 uw
College GPA: 4.0, pre-med
Major: Biology
SAT: didn’t report
ACT: 32
Essays: i think they’re pretty good, don’t know if i would say stellar
Letter of recommendations: really good! i love my profs!
EC highschool: class treasurer, varsity cheerleading, varisty basketball, LOTS of community service
EC college: started a club to tutor kids in inner city schools, heavily involved in student government, sorority (delta delta delta), went to Peru on a mission trip
Comments: i don’t know, i think that i have a chance. but who knows?</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I came across the UPenn transfer page and was wondering what you thought of my chances of being accepted as a transfer student for the fall 2010. My resume is below.</p>
<p>EDUCATION</p>
<p>Hofstra University Honors College, Hempstead, NY 2008 - present
Accepted into the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Honors Program
Candidate for Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics Class of 2012
Cumulative GPA- 3.84/4.00- Deans List
SAT 600 Verbal 730 Math 670 Writing 1330/2000
Major GPA- 3.96/4.00
Provost Scholar-Achieved 4.0 GPA in a given semester in Hofstras Honors Program
Chaminade High School, Mineola, NY 2004 - 2008
Cumulative Average: 94.6 / Rank: 31 of 400
Selected for Chaminade Collegiate Program in senior year, earning 37 credits from Long Island University
Hofstra Universitys Presidential Scholarship recipient </p>
<p>EXPERIENCE</p>
<p>iL Ferra Clothing Co. ([Clothing</a> the world, one shirt at a time!](<a href=“http://www.ilferraclothing.com%5DClothing”>http://www.ilferraclothing.com)), Rockville Centre, NY September 2008-Present
Co-founder and owner of an innovative nonprofit skateboard clothing and apparel company that donates three items of clothing to families and children in need for every item of clothing purchased
Interacted and established relationships with One is Greater than None in order to donate clothing to provide emergency relief to families and children whose lives were affected by catastrophes
o Donated over 1,000 apparel items to Haiti, Sudan and the Asia-Pacific Region </p>
<p>College Snow Removal, Rockville Centre, NY December 2008-Present
Founder and owner of a successful snow removal company serving close to 50 clients.</p>
<p>Cat Construction Corp., Rockville Centre, NY 2003 Present
Assistant project manager and personnel officer
Managed budget to significantly reduce costs and continuously grow margins
Constructed PERT charts to improve the planning, scheduling and reporting of construction projects</p>
<p>Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, Cooperstown, NY Summers of 2004-2009
Manager of the Wax Museum and gift shop, with responsibilities for recruitment, personnel management and training, scheduling, and financial records
Designed and created over 75 innovative and creative t-shirts and sweatshirts
Conducted break-even analyses on all inventory to determine volume profitability
Created an online store that generated higher revenue and profits</p>
<p>Westbury Beach Club, Atlantic Beach, NY July 2007- September 2007</p>
<p>SKILLS
Web Design, graphic art and illustration (Adobe Photoshop)
Effective leadership and management skills, excelling at team building and employee motivation<br>
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Proven small business management and customer service skills</p>
<p>I basically presented myself as a person with a unique entrepreneurial drive and with innovative ideas as exemplified by my work experience. I know my SAT scores are low but I hope my high college GPA covers up for it. Let me know what you think please.</p>
<p>Thanks so much,
Anthony Ferrara</p>
<p>hey did anybody get to check mypenn portal yet?</p>
<p>it’s weird that all of my supplement submissions haven’t been checked yet (sec. school report, 2 letter of recs, college official transcript). my rec letters were sent like in early Feb… </p>
<p>does anybody have the same problem?</p>
<p>Yup… exactly same here.
I called them up like two weeks ago and the girl there said that the system is VERY slow.</p>
<p>is it me or did anyone have a harder time writing the penn supplement essay? It sort of conflicted with my Penn common app essay haha. </p>
<p>the page 217 one was really fun though, I enjoyed writing it a lot. GL to my fellow potential Quakers :D</p>
<p>ivytroll & 45daysinrome:</p>
<p>Me, too! 
It’s really been worrying me lately. I’ve called them once or twice about it, but they keep telling me that they’re processing and that the Admissions Office WILL contact me if I really am missing anything… I believe them, but it’s been 2-3 months since I sent my “missing” documents in. I’m reallyreallyreally tempted to resend everything, but I don’t want to irritate them by creating more paperwork for them to file. <em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>I’m just hoping for the best… :)</p>
<p>now there is a message on pennportal saying that they arent processing transfer stuff until after they release RD decisions on april 1st. so wait one or two weeks after that, i’m sure everything will be up by then.</p>
<p>What are RD Decisions?? Isn’t that Regular Decision Decisions?? Or are you talking about something else?? Cause if you’re right, then you’re saying that they don’t REALLY take our rec letters into account?</p>
<p>An no, they haven’t checked ANY of my stuff yet, and I sent it all a while ago.</p>
<p>They meant that they will update the system after they are done with Freshmen applicants.</p>
<p>I heard that Penn CAS normally does not take transfer applicants who haven’t done calculus. I took AP Statistics and AP Physics B in high school, but I never got around to taking calculus (too many other AP’s were already on my plate). I planned on taking it next year so that I could experience classes in a lot of departments that interested me this year, and thus haven’t taken it at college yet either. Is this true, and if so, am I totally screwed?</p>
<p>Regarding tsakashvili’s comments, how do you guys think Penn admissions will view the fact that I’m going to take my first Calculus I course this spring term? (March 29 - June 5). I have to say I am a little concerned because my intended major requires a strong math background (economics). If it is relevant, I did take AP Calculus in my senior year, but did not take the AP exam and, unfortunately, received a B+.</p>