<p>i feel like this application pool is tougher than ever. anyone agree?</p>
<p>The Class of 2016 can probably copy the Class of 2015 as the “Hardest Class Ever”</p>
<p>Hey
applied to CAS, for premed
SUPER nervous for friday!</p>
<p>long island, new york</p>
<p>anyone else get an interview? mine went
really well but idk how much weight that had,
or how other people’s went… input?</p>
<p>fingers crossed!</p>
<p>One of the most tragic moments of my life was in the sixth grade. When I didn’t know the word that defines both a prostitute and a gardening tool.</p>
<p>One day, my friends and I were playing scrabble, and one of my friends puts the word “hoe”, they start laughing, I just stare and ask what’s a hoe (I didn’t know it was a gardening tool). Then another one of my “friend” responds, “Its your mom”.</p>
<p>@raging, Yeah, all the kids who applied from my school are highly qualifed (really high numbers + great ECs) and it seems to be anybody’s game right now…</p>
<p>I didn’t know what a virgin was in sixth grade. I said to my friend “I’m going to ask Mr._____ if he’s a virgin.” LOL awkward…luckily I found out what the word meant before I actually asked him.</p>
<p>Well, the people in my school are completely perverted, and they were stupefied when I didn’t know what a blumpkin was. Well you can urban dictionary that if you want, its not pretty. They thought it was weird that I didn’t know what this was in freshman year. I don’t think most people know lol.</p>
<p>I didn’t know what that word meant till the eighth grade, but found out through the 40 year old virgin.</p>
<p>I got you beat sweetcookie. I still don’t know what menstruation is either. All I know it is that it has something to do with puberty, girls, and is gross. So I don’t want to find out until I have to (i.e. college bio class). I guess the real reason I got teased so much with vernacular these day is that I skipped an early health class in elementary school.</p>
<p>Would me being the only person from my school applying to Penn ED be an advantage?</p>
<p>I’m only person from my school too. Kids in my school really don’t try hard at anything.</p>
<p>About 10 people in my grade have applied to Ivy Leagues, but I’m the only person with Penn as my first choice. My rank is kinda bad, but at least I’m the only one they are seeing at this point…</p>
<p>If you are what Penn wants, they will pick you. It really doesn’t matter if you are the only ED applicant.</p>
<p>But, I do think it does matter if your school has a history of Penn acceptees or not.</p>
<p>At this rate, it seems that we will see pg 170 by Friday. If we reach pg 145 today (we will have covered 15 pages in one day). Wednesday night - 160 pages. Thursday night - pg 175. I have faith in you guys.</p>
<p>That sucks. I’m pretty sure only one person from my school has made it into an Ivy League off of actually intellect. The rest were recruits…</p>
<p>How would Penn view this?:</p>
<p>Freshman GPA: 3.42 (2 Honors classes)
Sophomore GPA: 3.27 (3 Honors classes)
Junior GPA: 4.00 (3 APs, 2 Honors)
Senior (so far): 4.00 (5 APs)</p>
<p>My SATs are perfectly fine. ECs are really awesome. My GPA is my only problem because up until junior year I didn’t care (personal issues, plus the fact that I didn’t think I was going to go to college)</p>
<p>Really, you are asking the wrong people. We can give you our best guesses, but only the Penn adcoms can tell with their decision how they view that. The upward trend is amazing in my opinion. And your increasing courseload.</p>
<p>I think, even if you have 1 guy who get in, it will be a decent basis to tell if they should accept you. Lets say that guy who got in had an 3.7 GPA, and your cumulative is 3.6. They can look up the guy who is already at Penn what he did, how he is doing etc. And from that can predict how well you MIGHT do at Penn.</p>
<p>Improvement is always a huge positive. The 3.27 may be a bit low for the admissions committee but if the rest of your application is great, then I’m sure they’ll look past that!</p>
<p>But they do focus on Rigor, recs, and essays more than GPA and Test scores. At least that’s what they claim. So if that is the most amount of APs you can take at your school, recs are great, and essays are great, then you have a pretty good chance.</p>
<p>So if you had to choose one word to describe you, what would it be?</p>
<p>Currently, as far as Penn knows, our school offers 11 APs, and I took 8 (actually number is 14 now but they haven’t updated). Plus, only juniors and seniors can take AP, so I did my best.</p>
<p>Underrated</p>