how is my december going to be?

jcll2002
Thu, 29 May 2008 20:52:32 +0000

I wanted to see what you guys think about my application to penn in the fall as an early decision candidate. I know there are some really great people surfing this subforum so i decided to stick the thread here instead of the normal chances forum.

Anyway here it goes:

Applying ED for LSM (CAS second choice)
(Also applying to ucla, uc berkeley, uc davis, cornell, dartmouth, harvard, yale, princeton (throwing my hat in the ring for the last 3))

Public HS (sent 2 to penn this year)
California
White Male
Financial Aid: No

*GPA: 3.8/4.6 by the time I apply
*Rank: 2% (10-12) 5% overall (bad freshman grades)
*SAT: 680 CR 710 M 720 W = 2110 (retaking in 2 weeks)
*SAT II: 760 chem 740 us history (taking Math II next fall)
*Taken the absolute hardest schedule.

ECs:

School related:

*Baseball 2 years (then got injured, had surgery, couldn’t recover)
*Student gvt Treasurer 1 year
*student gvt Fundraiser 1 year (established school store. huge pain in the ass. Spend an amazing amount of time here and really care about my school)
*Math Tutor 3 years
*Math Honors Society

Work Experience:

*Hedge Fund
*Orthopedic Practice
*Working in a Penn Lab (Lynch Labs) this summer with the post docs who run it and some undergrads who are also working

Misc.:

*Penn summer science biomedical research program (where i met the guy in the lab for the job this summer. Have great rec)
*Doing research with malaria and other parasites at same penn lab
*Taking Econ this summer at penn
*Publishing paper in national skin disease magazine in september. Not sure how many issues there are, but the institution is comperable to the American Cancer Society
*started playing around in the stock market at 12, now manage money for family friends

Well, I could really use any tips you guys have. What do you guys think?