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kelllesta · 11-28-2008, 02:25 AM

Hey- so I saw this and I was curious as to my chances of getting in to UPenn.

I applied ED to the College of Arts and Sciences for Communications
Female/ White/ Public High School in Long Island, New York
Class doesn't rank- top 10%
Don't know my GPA on a 4.0 scale, but unweighted it is a 94.96, weighted 100.00

Took seven APs, two SUPAs- ap bio, calc, environmental, gov, euro, us, lit, and SUPA spanish and writing

SAT- 2140
w- 730, cr-710, m-700
SATII lit- 710, us- 700
ACT- 34
m-30
english-35
reading-34
science-36

EC's
-General Chair (president) of Model Congress senior year, Delegate Chair junior year, involved since freshman year (9-present)
About a dozen best speaker awards
-Science Research- won many regional awards, was an Intel International Science and Engineering Fair finalist and won second place in environment at an International Sustainability competition (9-present)
-Co-founder and co-coordinator of the Alliance for the Protection of the Environment (non-profit organization)(11-present)
- Fragments literary magazine (12)
- Art club (12)
- It's Academic (9,10)
- Chamber Orchestra (10)
- National Honor Society (11-present)
- Varsity Winter track (8th grade- present)
All Division every year, various awards for leadership and being a scholar athlete
- Varsity Spring track (8th grade- present) Captain
All Division every year, various awards for leadership and being a scholar athlete
- Varsity Swimming (7th grade- present)
All County 11th and 12th grade, school record holder, scholar athlete
- Sponsored for Triathlons (2006-2007)
14th in nation for age group

Work
I've had like, five different jobs, often two at a time-
-worked at TCBY from 2005-2008 (13 hr/wk)
-campaigned for a guy running for congress summer '06 (9 hr/wk)
- worked at a pizza place september 2006- april 2007 (9hr/ wk)
- worked at a sleepaway camp as a counselor summer '08 (100+ hr/wk)
- worked as a hostess august 2008- present (13 hr/ wk)

my rec's were great, one made me cry. and my essays, i thought, were good (i wanna go into journalism so they better have been). interview went really well, but how much does that affect it?

let me know what you think. THANK YOU.

11-28-2008, 02:25 AM	#1
kelllesta New Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 18	Chance me please! Hey- so I saw this and I was curious as to my chances of getting in to UPenn. I applied ED to the College of Arts and Sciences for Communications Female/ White/ Public High School in Long Island, New York Class doesn't rank- top 10% Don't know my GPA on a 4.0 scale, but unweighted it is a 94.96, weighted 100.00 Took seven APs, two SUPAs- ap bio, calc, environmental, gov, euro, us, lit, and SUPA spanish and writing SAT- 2140 w- 730, cr-710, m-700 SATII lit- 710, us- 700 ACT- 34 m-30 english-35 reading-34 science-36 EC's -General Chair (president) of Model Congress senior year, Delegate Chair junior year, involved since freshman year (9-present) About a dozen best speaker awards -Science Research- won many regional awards, was an Intel International Science and Engineering Fair finalist and won second place in environment at an International Sustainability competition (9-present) -Co-founder and co-coordinator of the Alliance for the Protection of the Environment (non-profit organization)(11-present) - Fragments literary magazine (12) - Art club (12) - It's Academic (9,10) - Chamber Orchestra (10) - National Honor Society (11-present) - Varsity Winter track (8th grade- present) All Division every year, various awards for leadership and being a scholar athlete - Varsity Spring track (8th grade- present) Captain All Division every year, various awards for leadership and being a scholar athlete - Varsity Swimming (7th grade- present) All County 11th and 12th grade, school record holder, scholar athlete - Sponsored for Triathlons (2006-2007) 14th in nation for age group Work I've had like, five different jobs, often two at a time- -worked at TCBY from 2005-2008 (13 hr/wk) -campaigned for a guy running for congress summer '06 (9 hr/wk) - worked at a pizza place september 2006- april 2007 (9hr/ wk) - worked at a sleepaway camp as a counselor summer '08 (100+ hr/wk) - worked as a hostess august 2008- present (13 hr/ wk) my rec's were great, one made me cry. and my essays, i thought, were good (i wanna go into journalism so they better have been). interview went really well, but how much does that affect it? let me know what you think. THANK YOU.
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