Applying for UPenn GPA Question

blossom
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:55:12 +0000

OP- the best way to get admitted to Penn is to convince the adcom’s that you are a strong student, interested in learning, get excited about intellectual topics, bring something to campus besides the classroom (athletics, debate, break-dancing, expert pastry baking) whose teachers say you are a significant asset to the classroom.

If obsessing about your GPA will help demonstrate this to the adcom’s then keep at it. My suggestion though is to do two things:

1- work on a killer essay which shows the kind of person you are and why a university would want you there
2- find a few schools easier to get admitted to than Penn- and get excited about them.

You can’t control anything else moving forward.