What More Can I Do to Get into Wharton?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I'm gonna ED and I'm Indian</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I: (1st time) 2200 {770 M, 730 CR, 680 W} (2nd time) 2260 {800 M, 710 CR, 750 W}
• SAT II: Math II 800; Biology M 800; Physics 800
• GPA: 3.9 UW, 5.9/6 W </p>

<p>• AP (place score in parenthesis):
Sophomore Year
-AP Biology (5)
-AP Statistics (4)
Junior Year
-AP English
-AP Calculus AB
-AP European History
-AP US History
-AP Microeconomics
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Physics B
Senior Year
-AP Spanish
-AP English
-AP Calculus BC
-AP World History
-AP Psychology
-AP Physics C </p>

<p>• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): (EC Awards are listed in the EC section)
-People's Choice Award Given By School Principal [Award given by teacher's to their single best student]
-2nd place in AMC12
-DECA International Award of Achievement </p>

<p>Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
School related </p>

<p>-FIRST Robotics Team 9-12 (Varsity 9-12)
--FIRST Spirit & Safety Award, Spirit Awards, Entrepreneurship Award, Imagery Award
-Debate Team 10-12 (10-11 JV) (co-captain of JV debate team 11)
--1st place team 2011
-Chess Team 10-12 (JV)
-Science League 9-12 (Bio 1, Bio 2, and Physics 2 Team Member)
--1st place Bio 2 team
-Principle's Leadership Council [Council of 4 Selected Students Per Grade]
-World Affairs [Model UN] 10-12
--Best Novice Delegate Award & Honorable Mention Award
-FBLA 9-12 (Officer)
--2nd place regional winner; state qualifier all years
-DECA 9-12 (Treasurer)
--1 3rd place trophy, 1 2nd place trophy, 2 1st place trophies, 2nd place in state competition; state qualifier all years; state finalist & national qualifier
-MathLab [Math Tutoring] 9-12 (Coordinator)
-Laureate [School Magazine] 10-12 (Co-editor)
-Interact [Community Service Club] 9-12 (Head School Coordinator)
-NHS 11-12
-AP Biology Lab Assistant 11-12</p>

<p>Non-school related
-5 years active Guitar
-6 years active Percussion
-Phone Software Programming</p>

<p>•Volunteer/Community service:
-Math Tutoring (50 hrs)
Elementary School Daycare Assistant (15 hrs)
-Animal Shelter Remodel Project (9 hrs)
-High School Library Assistant (70 hrs)
-Lab Assistant (30 hrs)</p>

<p>• Summer Activities:
-9th grade summer - self studied and tested out of Algebra 2
-10th grade summer - took chemistry courses at the community college
-11th grade summer - Self studying World Cultures, Internship at Merrill Lynch </p>

<p>Besides changing my ethnicity, what else would help me get in?</p>

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<p>Even though you seem like the cliche Ivy League candidate, you certainly excel in all of the categories. You seem like a very well-rounded individual. Good luck to both of us as we vie for seats at Wharton; hopefully, we’ll both get in!</p>

<p>To answer your question: Everything there seems good, and I’m not sure how else it could improved. That’s probably a good thing!</p>

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<p>Well, I think that what you need to do next is apply…lol. Your stats are stellar.</p>

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<p>being good looking is definitely a plus :)</p>

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<p>in order of most likely to least likely</p>

<p>score a 2400 sat, write an internationally recognized paper on wavelet based trading, disprove the hull-white model, win the world series of poker, intern for goldman, get 1st place internationally in the amc12 (what does that even mean, 1st in your school or in the world, since you clearly were not 2nd in the country at least), turn in a letter of recommendation from the dalai lama, have more twitter followers than ashton kutcher, do a collaboration track with kanye west and frank ocean, write the great american novel, cause and/or resolve an international crisis, solve the european debt crisis</p>

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<p>@jungah I like how scoring a 2400 on the SAT is higher than all those other things
and thanks everyone for all the advice</p>