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11-28-2008, 01:25 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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| 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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11-28-2008, 01:54 AM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: CMC '12 !!
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in for sure
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11-28-2008, 03:46 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Honolulu -> Stanford 2013
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Wow that's a verryyyy impressive resume... ISEF/Great athlete/all those jobs. That's crazy.
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11-28-2008, 01:59 PM
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#4 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
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this is too funny... were actually the same person
hahhhahahhahaha i applied ed to penn as well, lsa for history
my school doesn't rank as well, only does 10%
same sat score, same act score
and we even have some of the same extra curriculars (science research, track, camp counselor)!
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11-29-2008, 10:14 AM
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#5 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
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thank you guys! anyone else? i feel like i have a decent package, but like nothing is ever enough. and the fact that i'm not a valedictorian scares me, because i've heard they only accept 40% of their valedictorians!
and that's cool about us being the same person- hopefully we'll both get in and become friends!
ahhh so yeah. anyone else PLEASE?
thank you, i love you all.
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11-29-2008, 10:55 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Jersey
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i think u have a great chance. good luck to us all!  | |
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11-29-2008, 04:56 PM
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#7 | | Member
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Send in your ACTs only. Otherwise, fantastic chance.
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11-30-2008, 04:51 PM
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#8 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I already sent in my SAT and ACT, because my SAT came out before I knew how well I did on the ACT.
And thanks, does anyone know what the impact of an interview is/ when decisions actually come out? Anyone else wanna chance me (please!)? Danke shon!
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11-30-2008, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Princeton, NJ --> University of Pennsylvania '13
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you're so qualified I'm kind of scared now lolz.... | 
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11-30-2008, 10:59 PM
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#10 | | New Member
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aww thank you haha, good luck to everyone!
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12-04-2008, 10:07 PM
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#11 | | New Member
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Wait, now I'm starting to freak again. Will it matter that I didn't take physics at all? They don't offer AP physics in my school.
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12-05-2008, 09:14 AM
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#12 | | Junior Member
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If your school doesn't offer the AP class, the college won't hold it against you that you didn't take it. I wouldn't worry, you have quite an impressive list of EC's/work.
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12-21-2008, 03:00 PM
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#13 | | New Member
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just wanted to update everyone, i got straight out rejected. thanks to everyone who chanced me!
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12-21-2008, 04:04 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Wharton 2013
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I don't know how that's possible unless your interview/essays/teacher rec's were just terrible.
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12-30-2008, 09:39 PM
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#15 | | New Member
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interview was amazing, recs both made me cry they were so good.
i've no idea how either, but it is what it is. que sera sera.
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