<p>What do you think my chances are.....
--->Early Decision
--->Deferred Regular Decision</p>
<p>Wharton Early Decision
Public School
Class Rank: 7/241
GPA: 4.0101 (weighted jr/sr years)</p>
<p>AP Classes: Statistics, US History, English Language/Composition, Calculus AB, Physics B
(Only other AP my school offered was AP Euro)</p>
<p>All other coursework was at the Honors level.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Drama Productions, National Honor Society, Select Chorus, Student Government, Prom Planning Committee, Knowledge Master Open, PA Math League, Current Events League, "Talented and Gifted"</p>
<p>Business Awards:
--Team Placed First in PPL Electric's Let's Get Real International Academic Competition in 2008
--Team Placed First in Apprentice Challenge (A County-wide Marketing Competition) in 2007 and 2008
--Team Placed Second in Apprentice Challenge in 2009
--I was awarded the Challenge All-Star Award in 2008 and 2009</p>
<p>Essays: Above-Average but not fantastic
Recommendations: Amazing, in my opinion</p>
<p>What do you think my chances are.....
--->Early Decision
--->Deferred Regular Decision</p>
<p>I’m not sure what other types of weighting there is, but my school’s is rather weird.</p>
<p>No class is weighted that is taken in the Freshman or Sophomore years
During the Junior/Senior years, APs are weighted at 1.1 and Honors at 1.05. So my AP A’s are 4.4 and my Honors A’s are 4.2 when factored into my GPA…</p>
<p>(And I guess its a good thing that Penn only requires two SAT II’s then…)</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re chances at Wharton are slim. Even if you were to be admitted, your SAT indicates that you’d be well below the mean. Keep in mind that Wharton classes are curved, so you’d likely graduate with a terrible GPA.</p>
<p>Go to a school where you can flourish. Wharton doesn’t seem to be that place for you.</p>
<p>^no point in trying to convince us with intangibles. People are just giving an honest opinion, which I’m guessing is what you wanted when you started the thread.</p>
<p>to elaborate on the above statement: What separates Wharton from other Ivy league programs is that you need to show indisputable promise for Wharton to invest in you. It’s not enough to be a “sweetheart” at the interview and do a lot of community service to show you’re a “caring person.”</p>
<p>To get into Harvard, you need to be nice, interesting and different. To get into Wharton you need to be ambitious, intelligent and very promising.</p>
<p>I guess I wasn’t very clear in what I said…</p>
<p>By “pretty much everyone” I was referring to the legions of people who post chance threads with decent, but not exceptional stats. (like ath) If those people worked incredibly hard they probably would be able to handle the course load at Wharton.</p>
<p>That being said, they are very unlikely to ever be admitted because there are many applicants who are far more qualified. Furthermore, those applicants are more likely to succeed because in reality the mediocre applicants probably wouldn’t work as hard. (which is one reason why they have mediocre grades, SAT scores, ECs)</p>
<p>Rather than a comment of delusional, “there’s always a chance!” encouragement, I intended to say that the fact ath thought he would be a good fit with “hard work and dedication” would apply to most similar applicants and while it may be true, it isn’t a reason why they should be accepted. </p>
<p>Of course, the unfortunate reality of the internet is that my statement doesn’t come across with the accompanying sarcasm.</p>
<p>I probably shouldn’t even be saying this. When I started this thread, I was looking for honest opinions because I (just as well as anyone else) know that Wharton is an extremely competitive school with an extremely competitive program. I am one of the best students my high school has to offer and I know that. However, I was extremely surprised when I received acceptance into Wharton’s Class of 2013 about two months ago. I know the statistics and I know that I am definitely below the mean, but Penn has been my school of choice since I was a High School Freshman and I was extremely overjoyed when I received my letter of acceptance.</p>
<p>I applied Early Decision and was deferred in the Fall. I expected that result and expected a rejection letter in the Spring. I counted Penn out of my options and looked at other schools beyond Wharton. I wasn’t one of those student who submitted additional essays or letters of recommendation. I thought I had made up my mind on another school that offered a very generous financial aid package until I got my acceptance letter for Wharton in the mail. I didn’t even check online because I thought that I knew what the answer would be!</p>
<p>I am here to say that I did get into Wharton, though, and will be attending in the fall. My stats were basically everything that I posted here on this thread and I just wanted to know whether or not anybody else here thought that I would’ve been accepted into the school, given my background.</p>