Chance Me for Upenn ED

joerbnsn
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:37:13 +0000

Hey everyone! I am a rising senior looking to ED to the Wharton school of business (go quakers!) however, I would like feedback in certain areas so here it goes… (btw I am a white male from Florida in the top 1% income level)

UW GPA: 3.95
Weighted GPA: 5.2 or 4.4 (my school has 3 GPAS I never know which one is which)
Class Rank: 7 out of 550ish
Sidenote: I go to a poop public high school thats rated a “-B school.” is this going to look bad on my application??? that I only look good in comparison because im surrounded by mediocrity???

SAT- single sitting 1420, superstore 1480 (will NOT be sending)
ACT- 33 C (R 35, E 35, M 30, S 30) — 34 super score (R 35, E 35, M 32, S 32)
SO…this is where my first question arises. I am applying to a business school…shouldnt my math score be a 34+??? I plan on retaking this this September and only studying for the math portion and also should I aim to get my single sitting comp to a 34, I know UPENN superstores but my 33 is really a 32.5 and my 34 is really a 33.5

AP’s: im 8/9 on passing AP exams.
calc AB - 2
bio - 3
capstone research - 3
capstone seminar - 3
enviro - 4
us history - 4
world - 4
lang - 4
human geo - 4
Do I submit all of them??? or only 4 + ???

Subject Tests: Taking math 2 in august for the first time (only going to send if 780+) should I take one more???

Senior Course Load:
AP Macro
AP Micro
AP calc BC
AP Stats
AP Lit
AP Econ/gov
2 classes online at the University of Florida (B.S. electives)

ECs:
MAO all 4 years (math team)
NHS sophomore-senior year
Peer Pals all 4 years (club for kids with disabilities)
DECA all 4 years - won state awards all 4 years, international qualifier all 4 years, top 20 international finalist junior year
Debate all 4 years
Co-founded Launchx program at my school
Founded “Fostering the Future of Finance” - organization that teaches kids aging out of the foster care system financial literacy

Work:
Worked from 2016-2018 at math franchise Mathnasium
Summer of junior year held paid internship with Bright Star Credit Union working in the operations department (worked on fraudulent checks, subpoenas, loan applications, etc)

Volunteer:
Buddy sports 6 years (local organization that helps disabled kids learn how to play sports)
Coached Recreational Basketball Team of 7th graders for the city of Coral Springs
Head Sports Specialist at Camp Jenny (organization that sends inner-city Atlanta kids to sleep away camp over Labor Day weekend)

Leadership:
Debate co prez junior year, co prez senior year
DECA VP of activities senior year

Essays:
refuse to go into detail here but it is supperrrrrrr unique and demonstrates what I’ve learned at 3 major points in my life to form me who I am today and I am looking forward to writing it

I guess thats it! So I am applying to UPenn ED and really hope to get in. After that I am applying to 10 other schools: Cornell, NYU, UVA, Boston College, Babson, UF, Emory, Duke, Northwestern and of course…Harvard. I know I don’t have a lot of safeties (Emory, UF and BC) but I am 100% content with emory especially because they’re good with merit scholarships and I want to go to grad school - upenn is just the only undergrad business school thats worth that tuition. Let me know what you guys think!