<p>I posted this in the general chance forum, but didn’t really get any responses. My first choice (hence the ED) is Wharton, so I’d love to get some feedback</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
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<li>SAT I: 2350 (first and only sitting: CR-760, M-800, W-790 with 10 essay)</li>
<li>SAT II: Math 2 800, USH 780, planning to take physics in the fall (for MIT)</li>
<li>GPA: 4.661-W (out of 5, I suppose, but 5.3s are given for A+s in AP classes), 4.079-UW (got an A-, but our school includes A+s as 4.3s)</li>
<li>Rank: School neither ranks nor release val GPA (definitely top 1% though and likely to be val)</li>
<li>AP: 5s in Calc BC, APUSH, English Language, and APAH, 3 in French (yeah I know
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*Overall Course Load: Taken the most amount of APs/Honors possible each year of school</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Music, AP Stat, AP English Literature, AP US Gov, AP Macro</li>
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<p>Individual Awards (weakest part of my app, Id say)
- NMSQT (not sure about commended or semifinalist, got a 222 in NJ but the cutoff might change)
- NJ FBLA Regionals 1st Place Business Math
- Philadelphia Model UN best position paper award twice
- Rutgers Model Congress best paper award in 9th grade, best delegate award in 11th grade
- Passed the ABRSM level 8 piano exam (final level)</p>
<p>Team Awards
- 3rd place nationally in JETS competition (grades 9/10) plus 1st in states that year; 2nd place in state in grades 11/12 competition, 50 nationally out of 907 teams (should I even include that?)
- Various outstanding large and small delegation awards at MUN and Model Congress (3 total)
- FBLA NJ Consumer Bowl 1st in county
- Chemistry League I first in state
- 4th place in Mock Trial Competition one year and 2nd place next year
- Joseph W. Andrushkiw Mathematics Competition at Seton Hall second place in 10th grade and first place in 11th grade
- 2nd place team - Central Jersey Mathematics League Competition
- Science Olympiad second place at regionals, second place at states</p>
<p>Leadership and other ECs:
- Executive Board for Math Team for senior year
- Chess Club Exec Board junior year, have not held elections for senior year yet, club representative to Principals council and helped organize a chess tournament
- JETS team co-captain
- NHS, MAT, and FHS (pretty standard, laundry list type)
- Did some other stuff with FBLA like the Euro Challenge, helped organize two badminton tournaments
- Summer 2010: Attended a summer program at UPenn for 6 weeks - took UG classes in Microeconomics and Decision Theory and received As in both
- 2011 6 week summer internship at second largest Chinese securities firm and investment bank: Guotai Junan Securities
- Also did 58 hours of community service at MSKCC over 3 weeks this summer (patient escort)
- Another 130 hours of community service in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade (a lot of it done through my towns Youth Council)
- Piano since 1st grade, violin since 6th</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
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<li>Essays: Working on them</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendations: Havent seen them</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Havent seen it, but its a large public school so its going to be generic
*Rec from one of the professors at UPenn and one from this summers internship</li>
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<p>Other</p>
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<li>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes</li>
<li>Intended Major: Finance</li>
<li>State: NJ</li>
<li>Country: US (domestic applicant)</li>
<li>School Type: Competitive public (sends around 2% of class to top 15 schools)</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
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<p>I feel like my ECs are a bit scattered, and not as business-oriented as I would like. However, Ive done a lot of economics and financial topics at my MUN/Model Congress conferences, so Ill try to find good ways to include that on my app. Also, I realize my ECs are a bit weak… and I’m Asian…</p>