admissions advice?

Applying to College
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<p>Is it possible for me to get into Upenn?</p>

<p>Ethnicity: asian
gender: male
SAT: 2130; 680 (CR), 780 (M), 670 (WR)</p>

<p>SAT II:
Physics: 800
Math: 800
Chem: 780</p>

<p>Course Load:
Freshmen: No freshmen year
Sophmore: 3 APs
Junior: 3 APs
Senior: 4 APs + university math
all 5’s on APs</p>

<p>GPA: 3.88 unweighted, 5.13 weighted
Rank: top 1% our of 400</p>

<p>EC:
Freshmen year: no freshmen year
Sophmore year: none
Junior year: science olympiad, science bowl, math team, chess club</p>

<p>Awards:
3 medals science olympiad regionals
First place “Don’t Bug Me” event at state science olympiad
National science olympiad team
First place state science bowl team
Top 16 at National science bowl</p>

<p>Also applying to duke, unc-chapel hill, caltech, wash u, jhu, </p>

<p>i might try to get my sat up some</p>

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<p>Yeah, retake the SAT I this fall. </p>

<p>Well, you’re like the typical azn applicant, math team, chess club, top scores, top 1% . . . ECs kinda weak. Remember, black applicants will be compared to other black applicants, asians to other asians, and so on. There’s always another asian with perfect scores, amazing quantity of awards, captain of every sports’ teams, AND is a good citizen and volunteers 1000 hours, etc. Just remember that.</p>

<p>Your awards are impressive though. But try to show some character in your essays… Your recommendations will be good, right?</p>

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<p>yeah my recs should be pretty good…i’m also going to be young entering in college, does that put me at a disadvantage/advantage? i’ll be 15 entering college</p>

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<p>cooolness </p>

<p>some colleges hesitate to admit younger kids because they think they’re not mature enough, but since you did academically well for your age, i think it’ll give a boost to your chances.</p>

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<p>adding some more EC’s:
research at Duke Chem lab for one summer
AIME top 5%
VP of science club…</p>

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<p>HOLY CRAP YOUR WEIGHTED GPA IS ABOVE A 5
but uh, i see your uninvolvement freshman year and sophomore year hurting you</p>

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<p>i skipped freshmen year and i transfered to a new school middle of sophmore year…</p>