<p>With a pretty low gpa as a junior (3.23 UW but will raise it to 3.6 by the end of 1st sem of senior year) right now, what will it take to get into UPenn wharton?</p>
<p>it all depends on the other aspects of your profile (EC’s, test scores, possible URM status, etc).</p>
<p>Everything else is above average.
SAT scores are good. (2330)
Act: 35
EC: insane. (interned for VP of Bank of America in my state, and did research in a known university on carbon nano tubing for building the space elevator) been in engineering club since 8th grade.</p>
<p>been in a business program since 9th grade.
raised over $17000 for that prgram
($7000 in 9th grade and $10000 in 11th grade)
received congressional award by the congress</p>
<p>7 APs (5,5,5,4,4,4,3)</p>
<p>P.S. im aiming for the dual engineering and busienss degree.</p>
<p>Looks good, what about your class rank?</p>
<p>If you’re not in the top 10% of your class, you statistically have a less than 1% chance.</p>
<p>Even if you are in the top 10%, you’re still in deep trouble because of your lackluster junior year performance. Do not, therefore, apply ED. Get your first semester senior grades – which better be stellar – and go for RD.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>no, i got a 4.0 my junior year and our school doesn’t do ranks.</p>
<p>Then Penn will calculate a rank for you based on the school profile your counselor submits and other applicants from your school. Are you in the top 10% of your class? Just estimate.</p>
<p>top 50%
but my school is like the 2nd ranked school in the United States. And 1st ranked in New York.</p>
<p>Is this public or private?</p>
<p>If it’s a private prep – like Regis or something like that – then look at your school’s acceptance history.</p>
<p>If it’s something like Stuy or Hunter, well, I’m sorry to say that I can almost guarantee you won’t get in.</p>
<p>Top 50% doesn’t look good. But everything else is amazing. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, 4.0 junior year, makes a difference.</p>
<p>It looks like IRJunkie thinks very highly of class rank, evidenced by my recent chance thread. But really, it’s a holistic process… so keep that in mind and don’t worry about stuff you can’t change. Like your class rank.</p>
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<p>Penn thinks highly of class rank. There’s a reason 99% of the members of Class of 2013 were in the top 10% of their respective high school classes. (Hint: Penn looked at applicants’ class ranks pretty seriously.)</p>
<p>There’s no point to the OP posting a chance thread to receive responses full of fluff. I’m trying to be constructive, pointing out areas that could use improvement. I don’t think the OP is stupid or anything of the sort; he’s obviously very smart, as evidenced by his SAT & ACT scores. The only problem is that his transcript – the most important factor in college admissions – is lackluster. </p>
<p>Best of luck, OP.</p>
<p>even if you’re in the top 50% of your class at Andover, that’s not great for an unhooked applicant trying to get in to Wharton. </p>
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a miracle</p>
<p>I get your point IRJunkie, but I think the OP can’t really do much about his/her class rank anymore. So really no point in worrying about it… what’s done is done. I’d rather just focus on highlighting every other portion of the app.</p>
<p>Miracles do happen with this stuff…</p>
<p>if you look at it a different way, maybe UPenn didn’t actually look at class rank that much, it just happens that those who are accepted tend to be in that top 10%, the statistics don’t give away the process they use, it seems to me like the OP has some pretty nice EC’s, and i would say as long as you can afford the app fees, and can do the application to the best of your abilities then why not apply, you really at that point have nothing to lose.</p>