UPenn (Wharton), NYU (Stern), Carnegie Mellon (Tapper) Chances Please! Will Chance Back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, all!
I'm a current high school junior looking for business school – Wharton, primarily. Please chance! </p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2230 (first time) 690 (M) 750 (CR) 790 (W) - hoping to improve math!
ACT: N/A
SAT II: Planning to take French, Math 2, Literature (scores should be 700+ for all)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.4 (school does not provide unweighted)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1 of 207 (unofficial but guaranteed by counselor), top 10% (official)
AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
IB (place score in parenthesis): Senior Year Course Load: IB HL Math Y2, IB HL English Y2, IB HL French Y2, IB HL Business Y2, IB SL Physics Y2, IB SL History Y2 (school only allows 4 HLs)
Scores (Projected): All 7 except Math (6)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Winner of University of Sciences Marketing Competition, Winner of major App Development competition, FBLA National/State Winner, etc.
Common Awards: National Merit Commended (not guaranteed yet but I'm slightly under general semifinalist scores for my state, so I can pretty much extrapolate), National Honors Society, French National Honors Society, Honor Roll, etc. </p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FBLA : National, State, Regional Winner (chapter officer), Cross Country (manager, captain), School community (appointed School Board Rep, Ambassador/Tour guide to visitors, businesspeople)
Job/Work Experience: Part-time job specializing in billing at a local business (15 hrs/week?), multiple internships/job shadows
Volunteer/Community service: Have to get 50 hours at some point for CAS. Looking at about 20 hours as of today (animal shelter, raising money for childhood cancer)
Summer Activities: Online communications/coding internship, internship at Bentley next summer, FBLA National Conferences, French courses (fluent), Latin courses (basic proficiency) </p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): PA
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: Magnet, Public (#1 in state)
Ethnicity: Primarily white, part Native American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Top
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Native American status</p>

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<p>You should look in to Cornell Dyson too, it often ranks above Wharton for undergrad business actually. I may be wrong but unless you’re practicing and in a tribe you dont count as being Native American. If that’s the case I would say Penn and Cornell are a reach and NYU is a match. If you’re able to identify as Native American you will probably get in everywhere to be honest.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I’m not really looking into anywhere outside major cities, but I’ve heard Cornell is great. And I’m legally a member of the Choctaw Nation!! Have the card in my wallet and everything - but I don’t live on a reservation or anything haha</p>

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<p>The fact that you are Native American will help A LOT. (if you are above like 8% Native American and can name the tribe- if not then you probably aren’t really native American haha) you also have really good EC’s
for UPenn: I’d say you are in like right in the middle with your stats maybe a little low but im not sure what your GPA is but if it came between you and another kid with the same stats you would get in for being Native American probably.
for NYU: I’d say you have an excellent chance of getting in NYU like on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being impossible to get in, 10 being for sure getting in, I’d say a 7)
for Carnegie Mellon: you are in the middle, a lot of people with your stats have been accepted and just as many have been denied. but again, you have the whole Native American thing going for ya. I’d say about a 5 or 6</p>

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<p>You’ll get in everywhere you apply! Your test scores are on par and you’re Native American haha. I reccomend you visit NYU however, it’s nothing like UPenn, it has no campus whatsoever. I had a list similar to yours before I started visiting colleges and once I say NYU I immediately ruled it out, it was awful in my opinion. Ended up coming down to UPenn and Cornell for early decision. Decided to go with Cornell because I liked the campus and overall vibe more and I’m happy to say I was accepted last Thursday :D</p>

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<p>This looks pretty good! Since you’re a junior, I would suggest to keep your grades up and take a good course load senior year. If you are anxious about your score on the math section of the SAT, I would study up and retake it when you can. </p>

<p>Keep up the great work! :)</p>

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<p>I would give you a 10/10 for NYU and like a 9/10 for Penn assuming you can keep up grades and write good essays. I say this because you would be a very very strong candidate just based on your own merit. However, once you throw in Native American (I believe Native American gives the biggest boost) you’re already great chances go up significantly. I think Native American will be your “tipping factor” that’ll make you go from a maybe to a yes. If I were in your position I wouldn’t apply anywhere early decision, then apply to every Ivy League so you could be one of those kids who makes the news for being accepted to every single one. </p>

<p>Edit: getting your math up 80-100 points should be easy. I went up 160 points in math with out studying, idk how.</p>