Wharton ED, Chance me please? :)

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<p>So I was looking through my Penn Portal and finally saw that all my documents have been processed. This makes me really nervous; I mean at any point in time they could be looking at my app and judging me. Just wanted to know how much of a shot I got. </p>

<p>Note: I am not applying for financial aid </p>

<p>Nationality: Indian, Been living in Dubai for the past 15 years though</p>

<p>School: International school, lots of diversity (like 90 nationalities or something), we send some people to top schools. Like some people went to cornell, berkeley, etc.</p>

<p>System IB diploma program (it's on a scale of 1-7, where 6-7 is equivalent to an A+ according to the official IB conversion table)</p>

<p>Predicted grades:</p>

<p>Business and management HL: 7 (Topped the grade)
Biology HL: 7 (Topped the grade)
Economics HL: 7
Mathematics HL: 7
English A1 SL: 6
Spanish Ab Initio: 6</p>

<p>Rank:Top 5 %</p>

<p>Course load: Quite rigorous. To get the diploma only 3 HL subjects are required, but I took 4 and I got a 7 on all of them. </p>

<p>IGCSE: 5A*s, 3As and 1 B</p>

<p>Standardized testing: </p>

<p>SAT I (Dec 2008) - 1930
660 M
640 CR
630 W</p>

<p>SAT I (May 2009) - 2150
800 M
650 CR
700 W</p>

<p>SAT II (Nov 2009)
Math II - I think I got 800, only found one mistake so far in like 30 questions
Bio M- Can't predict really, not an 800 for sure. Around 730-760 ish I'd say</p>

<p>Toefl: 112/120
30 R
30 L
28 W
24 S (This was because of the background noise... so many people speaking at once and we didnt get any noise cancelling speakers at my center. Oh well, doesn't matter that much I guess)</p>

<p>Work Experience/research</p>

<ul>
<li>Worked at a food convention as a cashier</li>
<li>Worked at a light bulb factory for a month and conducted a case study on their efficiency</li>
<li>Conducted a case study on my dad's store for my extended essay to look at the source of the high staff turnover</li>
</ul>

<p>Leadership</p>

<ul>
<li>School prefect</li>
<li>Elected member of SRC for my junior year</li>
</ul>

<p>Extracurricular activities</p>

<ul>
<li>Cricket for 8 years, captained school team for a year</li>
<li>Drama, help with productions</li>
<li>Gavell club (Toast masters) 2 years</li>
<li>Work for a charity that helps address teen problems and development of children (2 years)</li>
<li>MUN/GYLC </li>
</ul>

<p>A few other things too but these are the main ones really</p>

<p>Recommendations</p>

<p>Were really good, the counselor and one teacher's were awesome (they told me), the other teacher I didn't get to talk to about my recommendation much. </p>

<p>Essays</p>

<p>Quite good, for main one I talked about how my favourite cricketer taught me the importance of dedication/perseverance and got me to start playing a sport I love. For the UPenn ones I wrote about Wharton management club, Front Row theatre company and a few others. I did the optional one too.</p>

<p>Let me know what you guys think, thanks in advance :D</p>

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<p>bump, just had my interview, I think it went decent because the guy was from the region in India that I’m from and he loved cricket too.</p>

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<p>Just got my SAT 2 scores, just as I predicted, 800 math 2 and 750 Bio - M, now what do you guys think? everything’s up to luck now I guess all parts of my app are complete</p>

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<p>My opinion, you have a great profile, but this I would say it barely cracks the ‘average’ applicant they might get for Wharton, I would say great chance for CAS as an ED, maybe around 75% - 85% chance you’ll get in but for Wharton I would say right around the 50% range…Since you stats match pretty well, your essay + recs will hold a little more weight I presume. Again, just my opinion and good luck!</p>

<p>Edit: Also, International applicants have even a harder time getting, in you should keep these factors in mind. You definitely would have had a better shot if you were in the U.S obviously; there is stiff international competition when applying to Wharton especially from Asia. Again, wish you the best of luck.</p>

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<p>thanks for ur input. Luckily, im in the middle east, and here its not so competitive, if i was in india it wouldve been much worse :stuck_out_tongue: but yea I knew Wharton was going to be hard, but its my dream school. I though about applying for Econ in CAS but then decided against it because I didn’t want to change my major for a school. Do you think I should re-write SAT 1 for a higher reading score? the max I can push my SAT is like 100 points, maybe like 50-70 in reading and 20-30 in writing</p>

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<p>Well, UPenn won’t see your SAT score even if you do +100 pts since you ED’d. However, if you are deferred look for each point which you can get, lol. So yes, if you are deferred, retake SAT I would say. 2250+ can help a great deal.
Also, I am pretty sure all international applicants are measured under the same criterion…basically, as long as you apply from a country outside the U.S your chances are going down regardless of the number of applicants from your specific country; in essence, all the international applicants are basically viewed under the same microscope. Also, they take ethnicity into factor, so as you are Indian, it makes it tougher :frowning: </p>

<p>My friend had a 17.6% chance getting into UPenn using an online simulator. He then changed his ethnicity to African American and it jumped to 76%…hmm…what are the odds?</p>