WHARTON! <----------chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I'm currently a junior in the IB diploma program with the most challenging course load for all four years. My high school is Newsweek ~130, so it's moderately competitive.</p>

<p>Stats:
currently ranked 2/580
freshman year-4.0 unweighted, 4.68 weighted
sophomore year-3.9 unweighted, 4.52 weighted
junior year-3.95 unweighted, 4.68 weighted</p>

<p>SATS: 800math, 780reading, 760writing=2340 total
SAT IIs: MathIIC 780, US History 760, Chemistry 740</p>

<p>Projected IB diploma score of 41 (eek! going for at least a 43)</p>

<p>EC's seperated by focus areas:
Language:
- 7 years of Spanish
- 4 years of Hebrew taken through U of M College-in-the-Schools, total of 24 credits
- 3 years flvs.net online Latin class
- Member of Language Club freshman-senior years</p>

<p>Leadership:
- Student council treasurer this year
- Student school board representative this year
- President of synagogue youth organization
- On school board as a junior
- Founded a school Ping-Pong club in 10th grade</p>

<p>Volunteering/business initiative:
- Over 1,000 documented C.S. hours at a hospital
- Tutors elementary schools kids in Hebrew for 15/hr. twice weekly
- Started a business selling reusable flashcards that has made thousands of dollars over the last couple years
- Started a community vegetable garden, I deliver vegetables to residents the area for a nominal fee, 3 years now
- Took a 1 month community service trip to Jamaica between sophomore/junior years</p>

<p>Awards:
- Various regional/state writing contests
- Attended National History Day in 10th, placed 18th in country
- Won best handwriting in school 2 years in a row </p>

<p>Other:
- Essays: should be good
- Race: White
- Gender: Female
- Income: .. uh, not applying for finaid</p>

<p>I don't have much of a "focus area", but my business takes up a lot of my time. I'm trying to go non-profit and donate the proceeds to a poor community in Jamaica (the same one I visited last summer). Hopefully that can happen before college admissions time, but I'm not sure.</p>

<p>.. well that about sums up the past three years of my life. one more question: would starting a stock market portfolio now help?</p>

<p>thanks for any responses</p>

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This alone should get you in. It will, however, seriously hurt your chances of getting into medical school.</p>

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<p>lol. yeah, there isn't much involved in winning that award. :P</p>

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<p>wow.
i think that's pretty good.
my friend got in and has somewhat similar records...so have a really good chance of getting.</p>

<p>i'm looking at getting into wharton too, but now after looking at your records, i'm just nervous myself.</p>

<p>=[</p>

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<p>Have good essays.</p>

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<p>the hand writing award is awesome.. but don't you think it seems quite irrelevant?</p>

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<p>"My high school is Newsweek ~130"</p>

<p>The Newsweek HS rating system is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. It makes the USNWR college rating system seem like the work of geniuses in comparison. As I understand it, their system is to count the # of AP and IB courses offered. That's it. Not whether people actually get passing grades on the AP courses, not anything else. It has something to do with a writer at the Washington Post (sister co. of Newsweek) who saw that movie about the Chicano kids who learn calculus and decided that the "best" school was one that offered AP courses to the vo-tech kids. So if your school offers lots and lots of AP courses it's the "best" school in America, period. What a joke!</p>

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<p>I don't have much of a "focus area", but my business takes up a lot of my time. I'm trying to go non-profit and donate the proceeds to a poor community in Jamaica (the same one I visited last summer). Hopefully that can happen before college admissions time, but I'm not sure.</p>

<p>Seems like you are doing this type of "community service" to get into Wharton. My advice is to stop trying so hard. Do nice things because you want to, not because it will increase your chances of getting into a good school by x %. </p>

<p>Also, why does it seem like every chance thread I read involves a person that donates an absurd amount of time at a hospital? What made you want to work at a hospital? Is that what you think college adcoms want to see?</p>

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<p>Chance threads tell you nothing! Seriously, stop worrying, because college admissions across the board are a crap-shoot--my stats are very similar to yours AND I was a legacy, and people "predicting" that I'd get in didn't change the fact that I was waitlisted. Enjoy your summer, worry about whether or not you get in come April 1 (or December 15).</p>

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<p>sphairistic, if the Penn waitlist doesn't work out, have you considered taking a gap year and EDing Wharton next year?</p>

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<p>Percy -- Yeah, Newsweek rankings mean almost nothing .. I was just trying to show that my HS is moderately competitive.</p>

<p>tdjr21 -- The CS is for my community, not to increase my odds of getting into Wharton. But I would prefer to give myself a leg-up (who wouldn't?), so I would rather go non-profit before apps are due. However, I will go non-profit whether or not it will "increase my chances by x %".</p>

<p>sphairistic -- I agree, but I'm just looking for a different perspective (and some reassurance).</p>

<p>Thanks to everyone who replied :).</p>

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<p>Hell no, PennFan--I liked Wharton, just not that much. I'm headed to Williams next year, and couldn't be more happy about it, and really don't feel like I'm gonna be missing out on a ton (there's always grad school, too).</p>