ED do I have a chance?

Colleges & Universities University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Community College GPA: 4.0 (Taken two college courses, transferrable credit to UC system)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.76, 4.13
SAT: 2160
SAT II’s: 780 Math IIC, 760 US History, 720 Chemistry, 630 Literature</p>

<p>White/Female/California
Rank: top 4% (ELC status)
AP’s: 5’s in Calculus AB, Chemistry, 4’s in English Language, US History</p>

<p>Major: English</p>

<p>MAJOR Upward trend in GPA (straight A’s junior year)
Activities:
AP Scholar with Honor
Poetry awards
Orchestra awards
President of French Honor Society (4 years)
Youth Orchestra (4 years)
Volunteer at Hospital (4 years)
Tutor in English, chemistry, French (4 years)
Violin, Piano, Cello 10+ years
Published poetry</p>

<p>Summer Writing Workshop at Choate</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP English
AP French
AP Computer Science
AP Biology
AP Economics
AP Government</p>

<p>Colleges:
Penn (CAS) Applying ED
UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCD
Cornell (legacy)
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Williams
Georgetown</p>

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<p>yes you have a good chance.</p>

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<p>“good” whatever that means.</p>

<p>are you saying you got a 630 in lit and you want to be a english major?</p>

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<p>how’s your rank/percentile?</p>

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<p>i’m pretty sure that one hour on a random saturday morning should not be reason to disqualify someone from being an english major, mengcheng.</p>

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<p>fair enough, the dude just seems better at quantitative aspects of school</p>

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<p>Mengcheng, intuitively I would tend to agree with you – especially since this student got a 4 on AP English and on AP History but 5’s in Chem and Calc BC. However, judging from the poetry awards and such, this person is a better creative writer than an analytical writer…and oftentimes people who are good creative writers just need a semester of college writing classes to learn how to write and interpret literature analytically. I think such things are a measure of your education, not your innate abilities.
I think this person has an excellent chance at Penn ED, especially with the upward trend.</p>

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<p>But what about the people who don’t have an upward trend in GPA because they were never down to begin with. I think we like to say “big improvements” look good, but is there any proof?</p>

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<p>ha. i think ppl with high gpas period should just be glad they’ve got what it takes to do well in an academic setting. not to worry, I promise you they’ll notice if ur Val.</p>

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<p>What if you started off high freshman year, went down a few points due to pneumonia (serious case of it) and came right back up to an even higher level in junior year than in freshman year. How does that look to colleges?</p>

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<p>How do you think it looks, what would you do if you were in an adcom?</p>

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<p>i think ur 50/50 ED</p>