Do I have ANY chance at UPenn Engineering?

niceshrp
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:01:42 +0000

I am a Canadian Asian Male student
I know UPenn will be really hard to get into,
but it’s my first choice by far. I was wondering if I had any chance at all at
Upenn ED engineering, so at least I know that I am not wasting my ED opporunity (my second choice is Cornell…)

GPA/Ranking: School doesn’t have GPA nor Ranking (but top 5 - 10%)
In Canadian standard, all A’s. Had 94.8% average in Grade 11
Doing IB diploma, finished IB SL Bio and IB SL Math (7 in both)

My Predicted mark in IB out of 45 is 43

Grade 12 courses/predicted mark:
IB English (HL) - 6
IB Geography (HL) -7
IB Chemistry (HL) - 7
AB Japanese (Sl) -7
IB Physics (SL) (no predicted mark yet)
Senior Jazz Band
TOK -2/3 bonus mark
(skipped 1 year in math, bio… never took physics IB 11).

SAT I: Math 800, Reading 690, Writing 720 = 2210
I haven’t really studied for SATs, I want to retake in December if I can deferred…
SAT II: Korean 800, Math IIC 800, (will take Bio & Chem in Nov.)

EC: I will just put what I will put in the commonapp.

Grade 11,12: Established and led International Group for my community …I was in a local Korean newspaper and featured as one of the future prospective students, received grants from the city
Grade 8 - 12: Part of CCM band at my church, played main bass guitar and synthesizer. Also led children’s Sunday programs. (I play 5 instruements…)
Grade 8 - 12: Varisity Senior Soccer team and Competitive Club soccer. In grade 9 - 10, I was in the most competitive regional team (metro team)
Grade 9-11: varsity tennis, team ranked top 10 in province…played some competitive club tennis as well… ranked 90 in the province…
Duke of Edinburgh: Gold Award
Grade 8 - 9: Basketball…won many tournaments and 3rd in province…

and extra ECs like peer helping, Canadian blood services, Improv. Band club, sax section leader in senior jazz band, etc…

Work experience:
Grade 11 Summer: Summer intern for a local church: Did office works like accounting, led Sunday programs for children, carried out projects like interviweing people and posting their stories on website, (35 hours/week).
Grade 8 - 11 Worked as a janitor for a maintenance company
Grade 11 summer: Tutoring: tennis, English, ESL (7 hrs/week)

Awards
Grade 8 -11: Honor roll with distinction, Certificate of distinction from Math contests (top 25%)
Grade 8: Scholar athlete, multiple sports award, English and Social subject awards, placed 12th overall in regional math contest, 36th in provincial…part of math team finishing 3rd in regionals
Grade 9: Business10 Subject Award, Math 10 subject award
Gr.11: Japanese IB highest mark subject award

so… .any chance?

Thx in advance.