Wharton chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Female/NJ/Asian</p>

<p>My academics are extremely weak and do not expect to get in but I decided to apply anyway...</p>

<p>SAT: 710 M 670 CR 660 W
Overall 2040</p>

<p>Gpa: 3.43/4.03w</p>

<p>will have completed only 4 AP courses by the end of the year including AP lang, AP lit, AP MEH, AP Physics</p>

<p>EC's:
field hockey
lacrosse
track
a couple school clubs, held a Publicity position in one</p>

<p>Work experience: This is mainly the reason why I applied/why I want to attend. My mom has partnerships with two international companies based in Asia. I have worked as a primary sales rep for these two companies and one of the two sells products to universities worldwide (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.). The other is a company started by the co-founder of the first online book solicitor. Now, my mom and I are in the process of starting a business solely from the ground since new opportunities have presented themselves. However, I don't know how important work experience is to admissions, even though it consumes my time.</p>

<p>Also, my two separate employers (one CEO and one VP) from Asia sent work recommendations but the English may not be top notch.</p>

<p>teacher/guidance recommendations: Haven't read them</p>

<p>Essays: I thought they were good and my editor liked the topic I chose, but I'm afraid that since I was not specific about the courses/professors/etc. in the supplement essay, they will think that I did not do any research? Which isn't really the case, I just kinda took a different route for this one.</p>

<p>Thoughts?</p>

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<p>It really depends… They might think that your mom most of the work especially since it doesn’t seem like you did it independently…</p>

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<p>unless a 3.43 is a top 10% GPA in your school, you stand almost no chance at being accepted, sounds harsh but is sadly true. 96% of admits are in the top 10% of their class so it really hurts when the GPA is low. Your work experience if impressive enough might help, but I don’t think it can overcome your GPA. My advice would be to retake the SAT, get a really good score, to kind of offset your GPA a little more and then hope for a defferral and show that your senior grades are much more solid.</p>

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<p>That’s true…it was kinda hard to make those distinctions so I described several projects I worked on that were backed up by the recommendations and talked about bridging the communication gap (since I’m first generation). but thats pretty much it</p>

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<p>Ohh okay thanks! Yeah I’m taking them again in december. I’m not sure about class rank though since my school doesn’t rank</p>

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<p>Does anyone know if it helps if my soph/jr years were mostly A’s with maybe a sprinkle of B’s? the gpa is really suckass because something happened my frosh year and I got legit c’s and wasn’t able to offset it much. Also, I didn’t want to write anything in the additional comments thing to defend myself cause I feel like that’s such a cop out ya know? Plus didn’t want to revisit that time. But maybe I wasn’t thinking very strategically</p>

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<p>oy @ Gpa but :slight_smile: @ your work experience
You should apply to Ross (UofM), you have a better chance of being admitted there</p>

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<p>Freshmen C’s? The officers might take into account a “positive trend”…</p>

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<p>Do you have any URM blood in you? That’s the only thing I think that could save you.</p>

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<p>academics are kinda weak so chances are slim unless they’re dazzled by that work experience but generally the case is no. sorry~ :(</p>

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<p>Work experience can be very important factor in acceptance to Wharton - however, your scores and GPA are very weak in comparison to the applicant pool, I would say your chances are quite slim.</p>