Did i get recruited?

merseysider
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:20 +0000

I was visiting University of Pennsylvania, and a close friend of mine introduced me to what he called his mentor. She was head of the multicultural department at the engineering school.I was thinking i was going to hear the whole" university of Pennsylvania is a great school and you should apply" talk. But she started only talking about engineering, and really persistent on me going into that field, at Penn(despite my abysmal 3.1). She was really complimenting and gave me her card. I looked her up and saw that she was in charge of recruiting diversity at Penn and she was also the president of the Black Engineers association in Pennsylvania.
My dad was trying to convince me that she could get me in, despite my lacking gpa… but i don’t think he is very knowledgeable about the admissions process(despite the fact that he went to Penn).

Can someone clear this one up for me?
Can she really help me get in to my dream school?