HELP!!--GPA concerns for PENN admission

Wordworker
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:56:19 +0000

Please DON’T start another organization that duplicates existing organizations. You won’t have the time and skill to do it well (especially all the administrative and legal parts), and you’ll just make the admissions committee wonder why you aren’t working in Mantua or Chester. Stay close to home, and do a project for an existing organization, and you’ll do better.

Why do you so desperately want Penn? For what you seem to want (STEM), there may be better places for you and, frankly, better applicants for those slots. Some of your competitors will have done research, won competitions, and participated in programs to enhance their knowledge and skills. You’ll have done things, but I don’t see any impact from your activities.