<p>OK maybe not but im from Boca Raton and my school is in Broward/Palm Beach County so it will def be closed for at least the next week. What will happen since my college counselor still has to send out my transcript and other information? Will Penn accept my ED application (I sent Parts I and II of the online app) without my school-sent transcript, recs, etc ? </p>
<p>P.S. This sux no electricity for my area for prob two weeks. I drove up to Orlando at least… thats how im typing. </p>
<p>I would call the Penn Undergrad Admissions office and let them know of this. They're understanding people and they know this is out of your hands. But tell them you have every intention of applying ED, have submitted your app and that your school was not destroyed but is without power--so you'll get your counseler to send recs and transcripts as soon as they can but it'll still take a few weeks. They'll be fine with this and very likely will just put a note in your file that states that they're waiting for some stuff; and since its only a power problem and not massive destruction, it'll only be delayed by a few weeks to a month which really doesn't hold up the admissions committee as much as you would think.</p>
<p>As bad as it may sound, that will work in your favor. Penn is very open/symapthetic to the tragedies that have happened to folks along the Gulf Coast and the state of Florida (I should know - I'm from Houston). This will actually increase your chances, believe it or not. Take it and run with it.</p>
<p>Just use it to your advantage. You hould see all of the Tulane students and students from Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi up here at here now.</p>
<p>Its a fine line that you must walk. I would just call them and explain what happened and there is a very high probability that they will be sympathetic in speaking to you and that may transfer over into reviewing applications. But in speaking to you if they sound unconcerned, do not say anything to induce their sympathy; you do not want to be that guy who is using a natural disaster to his advantage in college admissions. </p>
<p>As for the Tulane and FL/AL etc students at Penn...I believe I've read that the majority of them will not stay at Penn for more than 1 semester or 1 yr and won't be granted Penn degrees because they aren't official transfer students; they'd have to actually transfer in to get a Penn degree. Penn is sympathetic enough to take students in but not sympathetic enough to just dole out Penn degrees. At the very beginning right after the hurricane, I heard they were only going to take students who met Penn's academic standards; it sounded like they were planning on running a pseduo-admissions process..maybe they dropped that to take in students when they realized the scope of the disaster.</p>