<p>Sorry about being slow on this reply, i didn’t check my thread in a while</p>
<p>You need the sat for a bit more accuracy, but without it i would say:</p>
<p>I would say yale/princeton/ wharton are high reaches-its not impossible that you could get in, but it isn’t very likely</p>
<p>NYU should be match, close to safety, its a good school, but very numbers based, and I think youve got that</p>
<p>U chicago and columbia are lower reaches, two very hard schools but with your ecs and grades I would assume you have a very real shot at them</p>
<p>Berkley is probably a match, I think you have very impressive numbers for them and should get in/be considered</p>
<p>I might look at some of the other lower ivys/top tier non ivys, as well as maybe a safety school or two. I can’t really see what else you can do besides staying commited at this point</p>
<p>Thanks bchristian19. Next year looks like I’ll have 3+ school leadership positions, plus the 2 community positions i’m really commited in. Guess that is ok for the EC part…hopefully. I think the most important thing now is to do well on my SAT. Feel free to disagree~ haha</p>
<p>I think you’re in at NYU and maybe UChicago. With all the others, they’re still reaches simply because of the low acceptance rates, but you’ve got the profile of an accepted unhooked applicant.</p>
<p>I would say 1) focus your ECs to what is really passionate to you
2) make good relationships with teachers/guidance counselors for the recommendations</p>
<p>Your numbers appear to be very good (GPA and percentile at least). Be sure to keep those up and try to do as well as you can on standardized tests.</p>
<p>woww old thread! I have an “updated” one if you guys are interested…
To be honest I think Chicago and even NYU are super hard since i’m an int’l needing FULL aid…i heard they are stingy schools.</p>
<p>Yalefanboy, I think I did come across as someone who’s only trying to build a resume…sorry about that! I was just trying to glimpse at my “future” application (which is now i guess…since I wanted to know how I stack up). I don’t think about this stuff when I’m actually doing my ECs. =3</p>
<p>Don’t just start a business organization - take it further and expand it. I hosted seminars at my school where I invited business and economics professors to come and give lectures. To help raise funding for some of the competitive events programs (FBLA, DECA, Economics Challenge), we started fundraising initiatives and contacted corporations (though we weren’t all together that successful in the second aspect) for sponsorships. Start paper trading, see how much you enjoy it - and try to involve students at your school in stock market game simulations.</p>
<p>Real Leadership is what Wharton focuses on. You’ve got great potential through your non-profit, take it a step further. It’s not about the titles - it’s about what you’ve done. I’ve seen the mistake of too many applicants that have thousands of “president, secretary, vp, etc” but they have nothing to say for it. If you have 15 positions it makes a college question if you had time to make an impact in 15 of those titles. Make your leadership shine in your essays - and talk about how you would further that at Wharton and how Wharton can further you.</p>
<p>The above poster who stressed SATs is incorrect. For HYP, yes 2300+ for unhooked applicants is correct. But I have seen plenty of 2000-2100s get into Wharton (Asian and White unhooked applicants) - because they have A) Demonstrated Business Interest and B) Demonstrated Leadership and C) show it through their writing.</p>
<p>Good Luck (from someone who was accepted to the M&T - Wharton + SEAS) program this year) If you want it, you can do it.</p>
<p>To the guy who started this thread, you’re just not being real enough. I’m a current wharton soph, and you don’t need a ton of BS on your app to get in here. </p>
<p>i didn’t have any community service on my app(seriously…I didn’t do any). i had one sport that I loved, practiced all year long, and captained. i wasn’t good enough to get recruited, nor was i good enough to walk on(but it was close). then i had one other EC at my school that i really liked and was in charge of. </p>
<p>i wrote awesome essays that i thought the admissions people would enjoy reading. they were great pieces of writing. they didn’t tell important stories or say anything too impressive about me, but they were fun to read. and that’s all i cared about.</p>
<p>and not only did I get in, but they invited me to join Joseph Wharton Scholars which is an honors program of sorts. </p>
<p>so just chill out and try to be a real person. there are wharton kids who had incredible EC’s on their app, and good for them, but it’s not necessary. also note that dabbling in a bunch of random stuff for the sake of apps is not a good idea.</p>
<p>Wow where were you guys when I made this thread a year ago! Great advice~
(I guess the title of this thread is pretty attractive :P)</p>
<p>Honestly, I am very passionate about MOST (true, not all. there are one or two that I just merely enjoy being involved in) of my ECs. I talked about four of them in my “additional info” section, which took up 2 pages…(along with other things, but still). Hopefully they won’t get ****ed off with all the extra information, I just wanted to tell them more about those activities.</p>
<p>@IndianOptimist, what a relief hearing about the SAT scores! I won’t be as stressed about studying for my retake of SAT I in Jan…(I currently have a 2160)…still, better safe than sorry XD.</p>
