Would it make sense to apply Early to Penn/Wharton

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<li>cricket
*cricket commentary for 5 years. Acclaimed and recognised by cricketing greats ; featured on news channels (getting a recommendation from indian cricket board official) had a small stint in the 3rd edition of Indian Premier League.
*3 years varsity cricket</li>
<li>co-founder of a cricket related business where we have cricket tournaments for housewives.</li>
<li>master of ceremony for an Indian cricket board function
*one of the organisers of a cricket tournament which raised 40000 for education of unprivileged kids.</li>
<li>advertising
*worked as copy righter for a renowned city ad agency
*working as copy righter for the city branch of nation's best radio station: Radio Mirchi. Penned ads for many top brands.
*Started an ad and marketing consultancy. Employed 5 people as of now. We are growing slowly</li>
<li>doing a very interesting marketing related project with the food vendors of our city. Marketing products of small time business with potential for free.</li>
<li>won a marketing competition at conference of an internationally renowned entrepreneurship group.</li>
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<p>-social service
*teacher for unprivileged slum kids, working for a national level organisation.r
* motivational speaker for the city branch of the same organisation for one year
* raised thousands in fund raising projects
* been organizing an annual fashion show for senior citizens.
* part of a save river campaign. We got the governments attention and it is actually being cleaned up.</p>

<p>-miscellaneous
*intern at a leading city daily
*written a novel, trying to get it published
* house captain and school head boy
* theater
* won lots of local debates and elocutions
* won a prestigious personality competition and becoming the youngest winner ever
* won in Horlicks wizkids</p>

<p>The sad part
90+% in 9th to 11th but 74% in 12th :/ (i am taking a gap year). Grading was tough and internals at our school are crazy. inspite of 74, i am in the top 20% of the class. My grade is still A ! 60-100 get an A grade.
SATs this october and SAT 2 this november.</p>

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<p>I’m anxious. Please opinions ?</p>

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<p>Bumping after an hour? Not cool. </p>

<p>See my opinion posted in your nearly identical thread.</p>

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<p>Hahaha thanks EliKresses for your valuable advice :)</p>

<p>is bumping acceptable now ?</p>

<p>BUMPPP</p>

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<p>This is miserable. another bump</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

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<p>Grammatical mistakes damage your credibility.</p>

<p>If you were good enough to be a copywriter, you should be able to spell it correctly.</p>

<p>Ditto for punctuation. Governments needs an apostrophe.</p>

<p>In spite = two words.</p>

<p>And October and November are capitalized.</p>

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<p>^what was the purpose of that post?
Anyway, my impression is that your GPA and class rank is not strong enough for this school. If by 90% you mean 3.6, that is. What is your SAT? If it is >2350, you might have a miniscule chance of getting by. Are you a URM? What’s your family’s income? Your extracurriculars seem kind of haphazard and unfocused.</p>

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<p>You do not need to get over a 2350 on your SAT to get into Wharton, as long as you have at least 700 on each section your SAT probably will not have a big effect on your decision. However, a very large percentage of the students at Penn were in at least the top 10% of their high school class, so unless you went to a very competitive school (usually a private school magnet school) not being in the top 10% is not a good sign.
Class rank, some details about your school, and GPA need to be taken together in order to have any meaning in college admissions.</p>

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<p>From 9th to 11th, I was in the top 5-10% of my school. My school is one of the oldest ones in the city (town?). But going abroad for undergrad is unheard of here. We don’t have a GPA system, only percentages and grades. I’ve had all 'A’s except one B in 9th standard. </p>

<p>So if I get 700+ in all sections and subject tests, I shouldn’t be that worried about my academics, right ?</p>