<p>Need your thoughts for Wharton Chances. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Currently Junior
Weighted GPA 5.86 (class rank 1 of 562)
Unweighted GPA 3.95 (class rank 16 of 562)</p>
<p>Took 2 AP's and Scored 5 in both AP test
Taking 4 AP's this year and 4 or 5 AP's next year; Totaling 10 to 11 APs. Hope to get 5 in all
PSAT 226 (qualification met for National Semifinalist)
SAT (took twice) Super score is M-800/CR-730/W-730 and total of 2260 (Planning to take one more 3rd time)</p>
<h2>Summer last year (end of sophomore)</h2>
<p>Interned in NY at a hedge fund company for 1 month</p>
<h2>Attend National Your Leadership forum for 2 weeks @ Washington DC</h2>
<p>Did quite a bit of summer activities during freshman and sophomore years such
Selected and Attended Rotary Youth Leadership Conference @ WI for 3 days, Student Ambassador (people to people) to UK for 3 weeks, Summer camps and summer programs etc</p>
<p>Community Service : 150 hrs and continuing</p>
<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
Varsity Tennis Team - Member
Congressional Debate (2011- present) - Captain
Student Superintendent Advisory Council (2011 present) Building Captain
Student Principal Advisory Council (2011 present) - Leader
Scholastic Bowl - Captain
Interact Club (2010 present) Webmaster & Member
Varsity Science Olympiad (2010 present) - Member
Tennis Varsity (2010 present) - Member
Business Club (2010 present) - Member
Music, Pianist (2010 - present)</p>
<p>Awards:
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National (2011),
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Regional (2010, 2011 & 2012)
2nd Place, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago Essay Contest (2012)
6 First Place Speaker Awards Debate
Spanish Student of the Term
Science Olympiad 3rd Place, State Competition
Voted Most Likely to be a Billionaire- NY internship
Mock Shark Tank Competition 2nd Place, NY Internship
Illinois Regional Science Fair Semi-Finalist Award
Honorable Mention Award - Institute of Human Origins </p>
<p>Planning to get internship this summer @ a financial institution</p>
<p>Your thoughts and suggestions to improve the chances?....</p>
<p>You need to provide a few more pieces of information for people to accurately chance you.</p>
<p>What’s your ethnicity?
Do you have any hooks?
What AP’s did you take and which ones are you planning to take?
What grades did you earn in your math courses?
What field of business are you interested in?</p>
<p>Hello</p>
<p>Ethnicity - Asian Indian
Do you have any hooks? - I could not understand, help me please.</p>
<h2>AP’s taken (Sophomore)</h2>
<p>AP-Biology
AP-American Government</p>
<h2>AP’s taking (Junior Current)</h2>
<p>AP-Calculus AB & BC
AP-Macro Economics
AP-Psychology
AP-English Lang and Composition</p>
<h2>AP- (Senior Planning to take):</h2>
<p>AP - Statistics
AP - Computer Science
AP - Environmental Science
AP - Literature
AP - Spanish (Currently not offered; District is planning to offer next year if possible)</p>
<h2>Grades:</h2>
<p>From freshman year, straight “A” in ALL subjects including ALL math (took all the honors available when AP’s were not available in 9th and 10th grade) year except first half of current year Calculus AB is “B” grade (which pulled perfect GPA 4.0 down to 3.95). On track to get A in second half.</p>
<p>Business interested in : Finance</p>
<p>Hooks = URM status, legacy, athletic recruit, or development case (i.e. someone in your immediate family donated a building to the school)</p>
<p>Also, congrats on landing a job at a hedge fund over the summer! I’m seriously amazed that you got a chance to work there. As for your chances, I forgot to ask one question in the last post: what do you plan to do during the summer?</p>
<p>If you get an internship this summer that’s as impressive (or more impressive) that your hedge fund job, I’d say that Wharton is a reach for you if you write good essays and show interest. Due to its insanely low acceptance rate, Wharton is essentially a crap-shoot for 95% of applicants. Your application is pretty strong, however, so your chances at Wharton are MUCH better than for most applicants. Good luck!</p>
<p>I think you have a decent shot, but nothing on here really stands out as wharton/business/leadership material. Rather than getting an internship at a financial institution though, I’d do something more academic or community-service oriented. I think there’s a push to diversify away from having too much of a “banker” class.</p>