<p>I’m fairly sure Penn is my first choice and I am going to ED Penn come Fall. Yes, I did post this in the “My Chances” forum but I wanted a view on my chances to get into Penn from people experienced with the Penn process. I’m well aware that admissions can be rather unpredictable but I’d like to know if I have a shot.</p>
<p>CAS</p>
<p>Class of 2010
Ethnicity: Asian
State: NY</p>
<p>GPA: 96/100 for 9-10, don’t have updated with 11th grade yet (W, school doesn’t UW)
**Rank: **Top 5% in competitive public highschool (we send upwards 20-30 kids to ivies). ~550 in class. (School doesn’t rank and that’s the best estimate)</p>
<p>SAT:
Superscore: 2320 (M: 790, CR: 750, W: 780)
Highest oneshot, 2210 (M: 790, CR: 640, W: 780)</p>
<p>SAT IIs:
Bio/M: 700
Chem: 720
Math 1: 700
Taking US History, Math II and possibly Lit in June.</p>
<p>APs:
World: 3 (9th grade)
Euro: 5 (10th grade)
Took Physics B, English Lang and US History this May
Next year: Taking 5 APs- US Gov, Macroeconomics, Lit, Calc BC, Chem/Bio (undecided)</p>
<p>**EC’s<a href=“bleh”>/B</a>
School Jazz Band
10 years playing piano, 7 years playing alto sax- passed level 5 NYSSMA on Piano and level 6 (highest) on Sax.
Model Congress Debate Team (Vice President)
Science Research (Doing experiment at Hofstra for summer) Maybe
120 hours volunteering at Chinese School
100 hours volunteering at local hospital (currently, will have more)
National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine
Graduated Chinese school-bilingual.
Blackbelt in jujitsu (7 years learning, stopped 2 years ago)
[Summer Internship at Bank this summer]</p>
<p>Commended/Semifinalist (got 214 on PSATs)
National Honor Society
Italian Honor Society
Eventual AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<h2>Random question: How much better would it look if I got my Jazz Band director to make officer positions just so I could throw it onto my resume? (I hereby declare myself president of jazz band…)</h2>
<p>If it helps at all, I’m a strong essay writer (11 on my SAT essays, should’ve gotten 12 >.>) and I also have a separate English tutor who’ll help me with it.</p>
<p>My guidance rec will definitely be the best, tight with her, she also was my brother’s counselor so I’ve actually known her for like 8 years now.</p>
<p>Teacher recs: Kinda a gamble? My sci teacher’s attitude towards me seems hot/cold depending on the day, but she did write me the letter which got me into the summer research program…so I dunno. English teacher will probably write a good one, our personalities are very similar (not sure how great that is though haha) and he’s had me for two years now. (9th and 11th)</p>
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<p>Junior Year Classes/Grades (1st 3 grading quarters)
AP Physics B- B,A,A
AP US History- A,A,A
AP English Lang- B+,A,A
Honors Calc-prep class (the prerequisite in our school for BC)- A,B+,B(meh), getting an A+ so far in last quarter
Italian 4H- A,A,A
Research- A,A,B+</p>
<p>Those are the significant ones…the other less significant ones (Band, Health, Gym) are all A+s. </p>
<p>Sorry for long post and thanks for viewing :D.</p>