<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I would really appreciate if you could chance me on my chances at UPenn. It's my second choice after Stanford, and I applied to their Vagelos program (Wharton/CAS). Thanks!</p>
<p>STATS, ETC.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian--Indian!
Gender: Female</p>
<p>School - Huge; 3000 kids</p>
<p>GPA-- 3.945 (W) and 3.923 (UW) (we dont go above a 4.0)
Class rank: we dont rank; top 5% according to counselor
Course load: Most Rigorous possible, i think; took a college course at a really good college (sorry i wont say the name because i'm weirdly scared of stalkers :) ). Took at least 8 AP classes and self studied for 8 AP Exams</p>
<p>ACT: 32, writing:11 (retarded science section...)</p>
<p>SAT I:
Math - 740
Critical Reading - 680 (i cried when the score report came home)
Writing - 750; 12 on essay :)</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math II - 720
Biology M -660
Chemistry-660</p>
<p>AP Tests:
US History - 3
World History - cancelled score because i self studied as a sophomore and thought i should cancel 3's. This is the same for Macroeconomics, Euro History, Environmental Science. I took 6 on my own sophomore year.
English Language - 5
Biology - 3 (I nearly fainted I was so sick during this exam and Chemistry. I know it's not a good excuse and I also know that no college is ever going to believe me. Oh well. I'll place out of classes I guess?)
Chemistry - 3 (doesn't help that I had a moron for a teacher anyways >.<)
Calculus BC-3; AB Subscore-4
Government -3</p>
<p>Taking AP Eng Lit, AP Stats, AP Latin Lit, AP Physics Mechanics C, college course---organic chemistry (SO HARD by the way), and a really selective anatomy/physiology program (had to apply and get to shadow a neurosurgeon, which is what i want to be, next semester)</p>
<p>Also self studying for AP Psychology this year, too.</p>
<p>Essays: I'm finishing them up; I think my autobiography one is really good; everyone said it was one of the best ones I wrote (trust me, I wrote a LOT; i applied to A LOT of schools)</p>
<p>Recommendations:
Counselor: AMAZING. she's told me that at least 5 times already. I hope that helps since she has like 4 or 500 students...(not just seniors)
Teacher 1: AP Chem Teacher-loved me, told me it was a good letter ( I didn't see any of these)
Teacher 2: English teacher--Pretty sure it's really good since he told me he'd be willing to write the rec before I even asked...</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-No school sports, though I have been learning Indian classical dance intensely for the last 14 years; doing the honorable graduation next summer!!! :)
-Violin (nothing special there really :( )
-School Clubs: NHS, Interact, Science Olympiad (Co-captain 2 years), Forensics (only freshman year, then it died. I was VP and a state finalist in informative speaking), Model UN (soph year, Board of Advisors. then we had to stop b/c lack of funding), Biology Olympiad (founder and copresident of the opportunity at my school. The school made me start a club so it could administer the exam. 3 years), Indian Student Association, started a Red Cross Club at my school this year </p>
<p>Other Stuff/Community Service:
-Over 800 volunteer hours total (that was my "passion" thing)
-two hospitals--ER of one and children's cancer ward at the other
-Red Cross--board member and leader of the youth people (some 70+ people) (youth people = YCAT); over 200 hours in the last 2.5 years
-Youth Senate--Leader of the School Board committee where we give a report that I write to the Board at their biweekly meetings, Facilitator and Leader of the LeadTeam, Fight AIDS in Africa Project coordinator's assistant and wrote grants for them
-Cofounder and Codirector of ScienceDays in my city
-Started and am head coach of the middle school's Science Olympiad team; coach two individual events as well (Anatomy and Forensic Science...i love that event :) )
-Also create some events for Elementary Science Olympiad in my county.
-Reach out and Read (3 hrs/ week)
-Started two nonprofit organizations (one is about dance and raising money for rural organizations in India and the other is helping kids get interested in volunteering) and am the Executive Director for both
--Prostate Cancer Research (22 hrs/week; started after my grandfather died of prostate cancer) and also Pediatric OCD Research (6 hrs/ week; work as the Research Assistant there; I love the brain and want to be a pediatric neurosurgeon, and I got an opportunity in psych research so I took it :) )</p>
<p>Other stuff:
-National Merit Semifinalist
-AP Scholar
-Student Teacher for both Dance (Indian Classical, over 14 years of training) and "Indian school" (which I have been attending for over 10 years)</p>
<p>I'm really worried about the 2 B's I got in calculus (both semesters). They were actually supposed to be B+'s but they were 0.2% away and my teacher hated me <em>sob</em>
Also, I don't think my standardized scores, ESPECIALLY my APs are really good at all. It's really unfair since I don't ever sleep, since I'm studying all the time (when I'm not doing the EC stuff above :) ). I really hope that doesn't affect me too much.</p>
<p>Sorry for writing so much. If you managed to read all that, what do you think my chances are?</p>
<p>Thanks! =)</p>