Please chance me for UPenn early decision - I'll be concise

Colleges & Universities University of Pennsylvania
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<p>GPA: 3.85 - My huge weakness… this is what’s holding me back. Luckily, my weighted is much stronger, a 5.84. I’ve taken the hardest classes available to me, and some that aren’t available to most people (dual enrollment) and I hope that my other strengths will compensate for this. I really slacked freshman year, but got all a’s in the hardest schedule possible junior year, so hopefully that will count for me. </p>

<p>SAT: 1580/1600 - One of my strong points, but I"m sure most people applying have close to this, or better</p>

<p>Letters: My letters (On the common application I put that I waived my right to see them, but my teachers gave them to me anyways for scholarships) are great, my letters are another strong point.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
I"m not going to go over awards, leadership positions, records, etc… Because again I don’t want to waste your time, but my big 3 extracurriculars are:

  • Boy Scouts - Life Scout almost done my eagle scout, a few leadership positiongs
  • Job - Wholesale manager of a small business, we have a few employees that I am in charge of
  • Gym - I compete in powerlifting and have a collection of national records, I volunteer and help out friends on various sports teams with their training
    Of course I’m part of the standard school activities (NHS, student gov, etc) but those probably aren’t doing much for me</p>

<p>Essay:
Put it this way: I wrote a 10,000 word essay in about 5 hours… and I spent close to 20 writing each essay after all the revisions that were done. </p>

<p>If anyone could give me a chance, I’d really appreciate it. If I need to elaborate on any area for more accurate results, just let me know.</p>

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<p>I could chance you…but then again, it wouldn’t matter in about 16 hours.</p>

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<p>But hopefully it would help me get to sleep tonight. </p>

<p>I’m honestly scared of opening the “letter”.</p>

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<p>That letter will give you the best “chance” out of anyone or anything :stuck_out_tongue: ;)</p>

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<p>You will get in, now go to sleep.</p>

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<p>Wait a minute! You wrote a 10,000 word essay??? An average typed page has 300 words, you are talking about submitting almost 33 pages for your essay?!?</p>

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<p>Thanks for the kind words, lol. </p>

<p>Also my interview could not have gone better: It lasted about 90 minutes longer than planned, and (her being an econ major) we discussed economics for the entire time. She also sent me a follow up email to continue the conversation in response to a thank you note for volunteering to conduct the interview in the first place.</p>

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<p>Mine was about 20 pages. It wasn’t just an essay, it was a term paper that we had an entire semester to complete.</p>

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<p>which school are you applying to…?</p>

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<p>sas - trying to major in econ</p>

<p>Hopefully my job will help because we buy and sell bullion</p>

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<p>Didn’t that prompt say 500-word limit?!?</p>