Hi, I was wondering what my chances of getting into Wharton undergrad for UPenn are?
Stats:
-4.0 GPA unweighted (class rank 1/464), really competitive school we send people to Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Penn etc.
-5 AP tests all 4’s and 5’s (I plan to take 4 more this year)
-IB program
-35 ACT 11 on writing
-Soccer high school captain (played varsity 3 years) and club team captain
-Small business owner: yard care with three employees
-volunteer at Boys and Girls club and Utah refugee connect
-Co-Chair of church youth council: help coordinate activities and advise clergy for over 500 youth
-Founded and still run a neighborhood crime prevention program with over 400 members
-Interned at a business law firm
-I am an Eagle Scout and was the patrol Senior Patrol Leader
-Participated in FBLA
Thanks!
You’ll be competitive at most everywhere as long as your essays/rec letters are also strong.
Thanks for the input
Any other input would be welcome
pretty much what the above person said. you have good demonstrated leadership ability and your academics are up to par. will just come down to your essays and recs. remember that Ivies are never guaranteed, so take what we say with a grain of salt.
I have one other question. Would living in Utah help me at all in the application process do to the low number of people applying to UPenn from the state and the relatively small population?
It might help a little bit, since it’s a state that probably doesn’t get too many applicants. Overall strong application, just make sure your essays/recs are top notch
Thanks for the input!
Very strong candidate for admission, in my opinion.
Curious as to your duties as a law firm intern. Are you willing to share ?
Yeah @Publisher, I obviously didn’t do a lot because I’m not in law school and have limited legal knowledge. Most of the stuff I did involved reading over documents (stockholder and board consent, certificates of incorporation, investor rights agreements, NDAs etc) to check for errors, document comparisons looking at language implementation and strategy, and helping firm analyze and find information on prospective clients. I also did other things but those are the ones that took the majority of my time.
Would appreciate more opinions.
You can get all the opinions in the world but nobody can tell you anything more and nobody can reasonably give you a percent chance of acceptance. Hopefully you don’t need anyone here to tell you that you have done very well and accomplished a great deal in HS. Congrats on that. Your application will get a good, hard look and you should be a very competitive candidate for admission. Will you get in? Nobody can know that. The admission rate for Penn is well under 10% and Wharton is even more competitive. Because there is simply not enough room for all of the extremely well qualified candidates Wharton must be considered a reach for any unhooked applicant. Things we don’t see here such as your essay, LORs will also play a role in your admissions decision. You also didn’t give any SAT II scores and Wharton specifically recommends (not requires) that applicants take Math II. The good news is that you have excellent credentials and achievements so I expect you will have many fine choices for college be it Wharton or elsewhere.
Thanks for the input @happy1 and @Publisher
Do all admitted candidates go through an interview process for UPenn - Wharton? In other words, if a student who applied RD, does not get an interview, is there still a chance for getting in? Thanks.
Not all admitted students have an interview; interviews are given out strictly based on the availability of an interviewer. If you aren’t offered one, it won’t negatively impact your application.
So your only high school ECs are sports and FBLA? Can you work on that?
@lookingfoward I also did some others such as mock trial, DECA etc. but neglected to list them because my participation wasn’t significant enough. Also, soccer took A LOT of time as that was year round, as I played on a competitive travel team, with practices at least 2-3 nights a week along with 2 games a week (even more during tournaments). Between that, owning a small business, leadership commitments, homework and volunteering weekly, I did not have enough time to seriously engage in other out of school activities.