<p>ECs:
Started a club (i am also president)
Science Club-Vice President
Science Bowl-Co Captain
Science League-3 awards for top 10% in my state
JSA-President
Band-Concertmaster
Another musical group-Concertmaster</p>
<p>Work Experience:
Kumon Learning Center for little less than year (during freshman year)
Scientific Research at a nearby University(4 months during summer)</p>
<p>Volunteering:
Hospital Volunteering(all four years)- got an award for 250hrs or something
Soup Kitchen volunteering (all four years)</p>
<p>OTHER FACTORS:
Essays: Nothing awesome, but shows my interest in SCIENCE
Why PENN Essay might have been kinda generic and weak
GC REC: she said it was good (lol, dont they always say that?)
TEACHER RECS: 1 should be good, the other will be ok(decent, but not that good)</p>
<p>RANDOM: I started various charities that raise thousands of dollars each year, proceeds go to UNICEF, Salvation Army,etc…i actually had to call the local business ppl and stores to get sponsors. i am getting a rec from the person who overseas everything</p>
<p>Misc:
National Merit Semifinalist
National Honor Society
Spanish National Honor Society
AP Scholar</p>
<p>oh, and I’m fluent in Spanish, Korean, and English</p>
<p>You have a decent shot of getting in. There are a lot of applicants that look like you, so it's really a crapshoot. You don't have anything that makes you stand out really, with the exception of the URM/biracial status. What type of high school do you go to? Do they send a lot of students to Penn?</p>
<p>Your stats are higher than many of the people in this forum who claim they got accepted. So, based on that I think your chances are very good. For the class of 2010 they admitted more people with below 700 on each SAT section than they had in previous years. I know this because my mom gets the breakdown every year since she is an alum. For the class of 2011 they might have gone even lower judging from the posters in this forum.
I think your tri-lingual status helps a lot.
Meanwhile the major state universities like UMich, UVA, UNC seem to be grabbing the people with the highest stats and credentials by offering major scholarship money. Penn deferred me, but UMIch accepted me with a major merit scholarship.
I'm also a URM.
So, if this is true, the most presigious state universities will grab more of the top students and the Ivies will "dumb down" a bit...it's my opinion based on the facts.</p>
<p>I'm mixed, too! Half Chinese, half Pakistani, but both are ORMs. I think you are definitely a competitive applicant, and I'd like to say you'd probably get in to CAS. You never know, though.</p>
<p>lol sofia thats very interesting. personally, i think us biracial ppl should get the biggest URM status, regardless of what ethnicities we are composed of. cuz biracial/multiracial people really are the most underrepresented, are they not?</p>
<p>hehe i think colleges should disply the %'s of biracial/multiracial ppl alongside their %'s for other minority groups</p>
<p>Dulce, based on your own statement it sounds like your opinion is not based on facts but on your own personal experience. I mkay have gotten a B- in stat but I'm pretty sure 1 is not a statistically significant figure.</p>
<p>Ivies are in no danger of losing the best students to public schools. They have the money to offer full financial aid and shant hesitate in using it to keep their edge.</p>