Shooting for the Stars

Esviel_aka_SVL
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:58:32 +0000

Nobody in my immediate family has a credit card (that’s any good, anyway) so I can’t register online for the ACT. I have no way to get an application in order to apply, nor do I have access to any type of fee wavier, since it’s summer vacation and my connection at my job at the school district hasn’t received them yet.

The deadline for the September 15 ACT is in two days, and the reason that I’ve waited so long was because I NEVER received my original ACT score report. After waiting and waiting, I looked online, entered my Social Security #, and lo and behold, there it is! (This was a last resort; I didn’t expect them to have my scores online, especially considering the fact that I hadn’t registered online)

I can do my SAT over again, but what about my SATII’s? I can’t take them BOTH on the same test day in October…and they already HAVE all my SAT and SATII scores…I selected for them to be sent upon registration… cries

I just hope that they look at my ACT instead of my SAT + SATII’s.

What I’m saying is that I’m basically screwed out of early decision unless I REEEEALY want to risk sending in my current ACT.

So, I’m gonna apply to uPenn, early decision, with a 29 ACT, some (hopefully) stellar essays, and my listed extra-curriculars/achievements, and 4.0 gpa (I only recently was appointed to be on the leadership team of the African American Cultural Committee, but that starts Senior year and I haven’t had a chance to really do anything yet, so I excluded it from my resume).

Now, I know that I can be deferred from early decision and have another shot at regular decision, but is there a chance I can just be outright rejected early decision?

I’m going to take the October 27 ACT for all my other regular decision applications, and if I do better on that (I KNOW I will, I’ll get at least a 32-33), but get rejected from Penn ED, and then don’t have an opportunity to send in my better scores for RD (if I get deferred), I’ll be crushed!