Will I have a shot?

<p>So, I got rejected from Wharton ED, but got into UChicago EA and was apparently good enough to also get a $5000/yr scholarship. Weird. </p>

<p>-GA resident, male
-Ethnicity: mixed Hispanic (Spanish) and Asian (Filipino)
-UW GPA: 3.94ish-may go down slightly as a result of a B in AP Stats
-Weighted GPA: 4.14 (will go up by the end of the semester)
-school doesn't rank, but I got an award for being the junior with the highest weighted GPA, meaning I'm a would-be valedictorian.</p>

<p>SAT I's
Math: 800
CR: 730
Writing:710</p>

<p>SAT II's
Math II: 800
Chem: 720
U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>AP scores:
US Gov and Politics: 5
APUSH: 5
AP Chem: 5
AP Eng. Lang: 5</p>

<p>Senior Load-likely grades
1. AP Calculus BC: A
2. AP Statistics: B :(
3. AP Biology: A
4. AP Physics: A
5. H British Literature: A
6. Economics (I wish my school offered AP.): A</p>

<p>-school doesn't offer honors classes, but mentions "due to the rigorous curriculum of the school, no classes are designated as honors" in school description.</p>

<p>My only other B's have been graphic design freshman year, AP Gov last year(will a 5 on the exam atone for this), and a mandatory composition class at our school this summer? I got straight A's junior year.</p>

<p>-will mention Math, Economics, and Chemistry respectively as my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice majors. I want to be an investment banker or hedge fund manager when I grow up.</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Boy Scouts
-Eagle Scout. My project was building benches, pressure-washing old ones, and putting sealant.
-Senior Patrol Leader during 10th grade, Patrol Leader during 9th
-broke a national record for hiking. I hiked the Bartram Trail (100 miles/5 days, has a lot of elevation): honored by Governor Sonny Purdue and national head of boy scouts for this feat
-LOTS of community service projects
-raised money for inner-city kids to buy scout uniforms
-Philmont Summer 2010-completed trek 34, the hardest trek Philmont has to offer (Only 5 crews this entire summer out of the 1000+ that come to Philmont did trek 34).</p>

<p>Tennis (all 4 years)
-private lesons
-varsity tennis</p>

<p>Academic Quiz Bowl team (10-12)</p>

<p>I founded and am president of our school's food critic club. We go to restaurants about once a month and write critiques about them, which are published in the school newspaper. I'm trying to see if we can get published in the Zagat Survey. I wrote my "optional" essay about this.</p>

<p>Trumpet
-Superior Rating (9,10,11) at Solo Ensemble Festival
-Community Jazz Band (9-12)
-GISA all-select band member (11th grade) (top band members of private schools in GA)
-played for church on Sundays
-invited to play at school's open house 10th grade</p>

<p>Piano for 11 years
-invited to play at several concerts</p>

<p>Duke TIP summer program (summers after 9th and 10th grade, I respectively studied macroecon. and robotics)</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
-Georgia Certificate of Merit
-Phi Beta Kappa Award (given to Junior with the highest weighted GPA in class)
-National Merit Semifinalist</p>

<p>I think you’re pretty competitive :slight_smile:
Good Luck.
Want to chance me?</p>

<p>With all the grades and the eagle scout you should have a shot. However, I find it odd that someone with these stats was rejected from Wharton ED and that school is easier to get into then Harvard. My friend had lower stats then you and he applied ED and was def…at least thats what he told us. The colleges are behaving very strange this year. Good luck from a fellow eagle scout who wants to go to Cornell.</p>

<p>Do you think my lack of anything business-related stuff hurt me for Wharton?</p>

<p>I don’t think so. It’s really weird that you didn’t get accepted. It goes to show that no one really has 100% chance of getting into an ivy. I’m guessing your not a minority. lol</p>

<p>I just saw the ethnicity which now really puzzles me. Being a Hispanic is being a minority. Unless this is all bs. Then I can’t say why you didn’t get in.</p>

<p>Well, the thing was, I’ve always considered the Spanish part of me to be white until I started filling out the common app. Apparently, Spain is clustered together in the Hispanic category. Is there a possibility that adcoms thought I was trying to “milk the system?”</p>

<p>Anytime ethnic minorities (particularly those minorities lacking a true experience of historic oppression) are admitted over those with higher stats who happened to be born with the predominate ethnic identity of a given culture then, yes, it is “milking”–milking the system of common sense morality.</p>

<p>No, this is all true.</p>