Final Chance Thread - Penn ED CAS

<p>Academic Information</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.83 (All Honors/AP classes for Academic Subjects)
Unweighted GPA: 3.94 (two B’s, freshman year but a 4.0 sophomore and junior year)
SAT: 2340
CR: 780
M:760
W:800
PSAT:231</p>

<p>School Information</p>

<p>Top 5 (at least) public HS in IL
Very Competitive
Sends 30 to Ivies a year
No Class Rank (grade size 700)
Will have taken these APs (11) before I graduate. All scores pending but AP Euro.</p>

<p>Chemistry -5
Biology
Calc AB - 5
Spanish Lang and Comp - 4
English Lang and Comp - 5
European History - 5
US History - 5
Statistics
English Lit
Microeconomics
Studio Art</p>

<p>Extracurriculars</p>

<p>Origami - I LOVE ORIGAMI and have multiple parts about my involvement in it. I consider this the most interesting part about my application</p>

<ol>
<li>Founded a Club at school</li>
<li>I am a Youtube Partner for origami. I make around 80 dollars a week from ad revenue. I have 1,000,000 + cumulative views.</li>
<li>I was a winner an national origami competition (yes, they exist) and have my work on exhibition.</li>
<li>I’m writing a technical book about origami design and have had talks with publishers (they seem interested). I am not self publishing.</li>
</ol>

<p>School Clubs</p>

<p>National Art Honor Society
Citizen Club - A politics based club which has heavy involvement in volunteering and fundraising for international causes - VP
Origami Club - Founder and President
Student Newspaper Photographer - Our newspaper produces 40 pages a month.
Cross Country
Track and Field</p>

<p>Misc.</p>

<p>I play piano for fun
I volunteered in Taiwan with the Red Cross in Taiwan last summer for two weeks
I won an honorable mention for an art piece (regional) in the Scholastic Art and Writing competition, and got 2nd place in a architectural drawing contest (school)
NMSF
Good recs</p>

<p>I think you’re good! Very, VERY different with the whole origami thing.</p>

<p>I bet they loved the origami stuff! I like your chances.</p>

<p>I forgot to add my SAT II</p>

<p>800 chemistry
800 Math 2
720 Spanish</p>