Wharton ED: Low GPA + Asian, Great ECs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>School Context:
I go to one of the top 50 public high schools in the nation, situated in Texas. *School only sends weighted GPA, no ranks </p>

<p>4.43 GPA (Roughly 3.64 – 3.73 Unweighted)
SAT 2230 (730 CR, 790 M, 710 W)
SAT II’s: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 760 Biology, 760 Literature </p>

<p>AP Testing: 5’s and 4’s, will have taken nine tests by the end of my junior year
Rigor: Hardest course load in school’s academic history. </p>

<p>Extracurricular (Position/Awards in parenthesis)
1) Four Paid Science Related-Internship (Juggling this with school)
2) FTC Robotics Team (Captain x2, Treasurer, Over ten awards, FTC World Championships, Head Programmer x2, Electrical Engineer)
3) Astrophysics Team – (Captain x2, Telescopes every Friday Evening)
4) Varsity Debate Team (Captain, 1st Regional, 1st County, States)<br>
5) Nationally Top 10 research institution (Assistant Researcher)
6) iPhone Development Organization (Founder, CEO, Head Programmer)
7) Science Institutions (Captain of Volunteer Program, 650 Hours)
8) Track - Spring (Captain, 4x100m, 200m, Regional Champion)
9) Wall Street Survivor Club (President x3, Doubled Equity value)
10) Dual Enrollment Student (37 Units Taken, 3.92 GPA) </p>

<p>11) USA Mathematical Talent Search
12) Basketball (Varsity, freshmen co-captain, JV Captain (Injured)
13) Cross Country (Varsity co-captain, JV co-captain)
14) Soccer (Defensive Captain, played for 12 years)
15) Future Business Leaders of America (Founder, President x2)
16) Engineering Club (President x2)
17) Chess Club (Grand tournament champion, Rating: 2134)
18) Mathematics Team & Philosophy Club & Fashion Club
19) USA Mathematical Talent Search (Participant)
20) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Summer 2013, EECS)</p>

<p>Honors/Awards
FTC World Championship
All-USA Community College Academic Team (Nomination, pending)
Presidential Service Award Gold Medal
Discus Award Winner Scholarship (SAGE Scholar)
Baush + Lomb Honorary Science Award</p>

<p>Letter of Recommendations: Stellar
Essays: Amazing </p>

<p>Colleges:
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton (Early Decision)
MIT, Caltech, Stanford
Harvard, Yale, Princeton
Columbia, Cornell, Brown
UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UCSD, UCD
Uchicago, Johns Hopkins, NYU </p>

<p>Intended Majors:
EECS & Financial Engineering </p>

<p>For UCs (College of Letters and Sciences)</p>

<p>What are the chances?
Thanks for reading, even if you don't respond!</p>

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<p>What do you call a person who likes to hang around with musicians? </p>

<p>A drummer.</p>

<p>BAH DUM BUMP!</p>

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<p>Did you really apply to every single Ivy league school?</p>

<p>Elitism overload.</p>

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<p>I don’t see Dartmouth…^</p>

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<p>Honestly, I visited Dartmouth, and I was not overly impressed with the tuition/quality of education. But yes, I am applying to most of the Ivies, because they are all wonderful in at least one of the following: finances, business, science, and engineering</p>

<p>Furthermore, I don’t really expect to get into any of the Ivies, I am just applying to most of them to test my luck. After all, the admission game is like winning a lottery. The more you purchase, the better your chances.</p>

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<p>Wharton (ED): Low Reach
MIT, Caltech, Stanford: Reach, Reach, Reach
Harvard, Yale, Princeton: Reach, Reach, Reach
Columbia, Cornell, Brown: Reach, High Match/Low Reach, Low Reach
UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UCSD, UCD: High Match, Match, Low Match, Low Match
Uchicago, Johns Hopkins, NYU: Reach, Low Reach, Match</p>

<p>^And to the above, I was very impressed by Dartmouth; Brown was the one that I felt was significantly worse than the others.</p>

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<p>^to each his own. I never visited a single college I applied to and was perfectly happy</p>

<p>anyways, I think you have a solid chance at Wharton. They fill a good chunk of their class with ED applicants</p>

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<p>I want your ECs.</p>

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<p>I just read your ECs more closely. What I would definitely recommend is applying for the M&T program (dual degree wharton/engineering) at penn, and choose that if you don’t get into that program, you’d want to be considered for SEAS (the engineering school).</p>

<p>If you get into M&T, that’s incredible. It’s probably the best academic program at any of the Ivies. If you end up just getting into SEAS (which I think you’d have a much better chance of doing than Wharton), you can always choose to do an internal transfer to Wharton, or re-apply for a transfer into the M&T program–you’d do both after you freshmen year at Penn.</p>

<p>PM me if you have any questions</p>