SAT I : 1560 760 CR +W 800 Math
SAT II: Bio , 780; US. History , 790; Math II, 800
Unweighted GPA: 3.92
Rank: top 5%, no official rank in school
APs: Don’t know my scores yet but I took APUSH, BC, AP Physics 1 , AP English, AP French, AP Micro
Senior Year Course Load: AP COMP sci, AP Physics, AP English, AP Statistics, AP GOV, Multi-var Calc
President of JSA
President of DECA:
Captain of Academic DeCathlon
Captain of History Bowl
Vice President of Student Government
-Started own finance company (don’t want to go in depth because confidential)
-Captain of Freshman and Jv Soccer Team
-President of political organization in area
-Ton of awards in my activities including National Meit-Semi Finalist
Income Bracket: high
@Klayyy He/she has great scores, GPA and good ECs. There are many people like him/her that get into Penn ED. Also the fact that his sibling is already a student helps slightly.
Do you actually need a hook? @Klayyy I am sure that people with excellent grades and extracurriculars and leadership get in with out a hook. Seems like College Confidential stresses this “hook” that I am sure helps for some but is not necessary for others.
I think its ok, I feel like you may need more EC that show personality like playing on a sports team or being a personable person bc i think Penn tries to see that too
Broo…
He plays soccer and shows to be a leader in pretty much everything. I doesn’t think he has a hook tho because he’s pretty ordinary outside of that. @USPanther@f2000sa@penngirlpending
@Klayyy I don’t know what you consider to be a hook. A hook traditionally means an athlete recruit, a legacy (large alumni donations)–but at some schools, legacies aren’t much of a leg up, or a URM/low-income applicant (Questbridge, Posse etc).
If you think a hook is something like curing ebola or writing a new york times bestseller, then you got it wrong buddy. I think OP is a qualified candidate, but as with any Ivy, it’s still a reach, but with a more possible outcome of an acceptance/waitlist.
@Klayyy If he doesn’t have a hook (which is correctly defined in the post above) than neither did his brother. His bother is currently studying at Wharton so…
@Klayy Not every student who gets into Penn or other ivies has made a revolutionary invention or started a successful company. There are many people who get in with just being very good students, having good extracurriculars and scores. You don’t need to be a math olympiad champion or an intel science competition finalist to get in.