Who's applying ED to Penn?

<p>lol i go to El Dorado High School in Eldorado Kansas. My class is 112 students - and we have 17 4.0’s. I will graduate with an asscociates degree because my highs schools curriculum is soo terrible. My college class work is probably equivalent to most high schools</p>

<p>So yeah, this question was sort of buried among everything else: but do you guys have any ideas where you might go if you don’t get accepted to any of your reach schools?</p>

<p>my safety schools are Rutgers, Smith, Case Western, My target school UMich, and reach schools are UVA, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Barnard</p>

<p>lol @hoiboy
we have 3 asians total in our grade. yup. so u get a sense of the competition (aka no competition…
also I’ve been to SF’s Chinatown :)))
I can’t really judge because I haven’t been to that many chinatowns…</p>

<p>and my back up and only back up is USC. alright, I know that’s kind of a bad idea</p>

<p>my safety and probably where I am going to end up are Drexel, Penn State, and Pitt. I really have no matches. And then reaches are Penn and Columbia.</p>

<p>I go to a magnet tech and art school, the top 10% all has 3.95+! We’re disgustingly competitive with each other.</p>

<p>And safeties:</p>

<p>Drexel (Already Accepted), Fordham (Already Accepted), University of Maryland College Park</p>

<p>Target: Villanova, Georgetown (this is probably a reach too…)</p>

<p>Reach: Tufts, Princeton, Duke, Cornell</p>

<p>this thread will definitely go down in cc history. the school spirit is amazing!! and SENIOI2 im korean too (: do you live in korea right now?! i live 10 minutes from university city so i know this place by heart ! is anyone else enchanted by locust walk?! sooo pretty.</p>

<p>onlypenn18, you’re the cutest thing in the world. I love locust walk, it’s perfect.</p>

<p>OH WAIT. hold up i totally forgot about the cali chinatowns…i’ve never been to those places but i assume they’re amazing with all the asians over there
@free2rhyme: Mississauga! Cool place…I wished I lived somewhere in the suburbs like that or Scarborough or Markham instead of superghetto downtown Toronto. Was your high school education partly in Canada and partly in the US? I am currently living in North Carolina.
And do you not have any safeties back in the Great White North? Tuition is way cheaper though
@sister277 - same. 3-asian high school in the middle of mountains blah</p>

<p>@sweetcookie hahaha yes Im in the middle of cornlands…aka Ohio</p>

<p>OMG also we get the same regional AO!!
cause I remember seeing that she read Ohio, NC, SC, and N &S dakota together!</p>

<p>@kristinabrown1 really that was your favorite? my ap lang teacher from last year criticized the prompt the whole time he was helping me. also, his sister is the president of harvard. ironic? lol. anywho, i thought it was okay. probably the most fun essay that i wrote, but i feel like penn will take that essay lightly for that reason but then again, i could be completely wrong. random question, are you planning on cheering at penn if you get in?</p>

<p>@onlypenn18 nope! i live in the princeton area so central jersey but i lived in korea for 4 years and i was born there. </p>

<p>ps everyone’s demographics are mind-blowing! my district is over 50% “minority” which would actually make us the majority. highest math scores and second highest english scores in nj. plus, there’s 400+ students in my class and a handful of students take classes at princeton</p>

<p>empaige you sound like someone id wanna be best friends with haha. actually everyone here sounds so friendly (: i do have one question though. does penn like it if an applicant has international experiences? Im thinking of spending a year abroad in Korea, and coming back to repeat sophomore year at Andover (guaranteed a spot with connections). would that be better or should i just stay at my current private school near penn, where i can do community service at university city and neighboring countries. i literally drive into the city every weekend to help out, and its so much fun actually ! i also have an internship at penn this summer do you think that would help my application? </p>

<p>ahh sorry guys i know im ruining this lovely thread with silly worries of a sophomore but im so stressed out about college !! i dont know what to do…</p>

<p>All of my high school education was in the US. I can’t go back up north because my parents feel that it would be pointless to commute across the border to visit me. They are pretty much telling me to apply within PA.</p>

<p>I am not white, but from the way the thread is building, I can see maybe 3 caucasian folk here and that is based on their usernames.</p>

<p>Suggestion for you onlypenn18: I don’t know the answer to your question, maybe someone else can help you out. But just a word of advice, don’t get addicted to this site as a sophomore because it will make you lose your head.</p>

<p>@SENIO12 i am not 100% sure i have heard the squad is not that great…i think i will try out i have been varsity all four years, i am on a level five competitive squad, and i coach a little league squad i can’twrap my head around just giving it up lol…but i really want to join the parli debate team…but the debate team is soooooooo hard to make like 250+ try out and 35 make it…lol the cheer team is much easier…are you going to try out?</p>

<p>@sister277 - Naww, I’m grouped with the Canadians which sure will confuse the heck out of whoever is in charge of North Americans cuz they wouldn’t be familiar with any of my high schools
But Annie Smith is your region AO right? I met her when she came to my high school. She was really nice.
@free2rhyme - living in PA helps you though right? It’s interesting that we’re both Canadians completely assimilated to American life and its various school systems and whatnot. I wonder how much our experiences will affect our upcoming admission results. Let’s pray for the best. Canadians represent!</p>

<p>lol @free2rhyme - i am really curious who are your 3</p>

<p>Does going to a super-competitive/super high-achieiving high school boost you if you have a “bad” decile (just below top 20%) ranking?</p>

<p>hoiboy i am not sure on that…my school is the opposite no competition at all…but my school has a policy that states special ed students automatically make A’s in a lot of college, also we have no weighting at all so i have taking several college courses plus exhausted our honor system and i have a 3.77 but my high school doesn’t weigh rant AT ALL so i am 18th out of 112…i really hope they take things into consideration</p>

<p>alright guys I have been checking this thread religiously since Thursday and I couldn’t resist the urge to hop in now… I ED’ed to Penn (Wharton) and I am fearing the worst after checking all of you guys out haha…</p>

<p>@kristinabrown1 i’m not so sure either. when i visited campus for my overnight, i sat in on a jv/varsity practice and there were only about 2 or 3 strong stunt groups. the other ones were still learning how to do extensions so i’m thinking they were probably jv. i coach the pop warner team in my town too which is rec cheerleading, the same team i was on when i was younger. you’re definitely more into it than i am though! always wanted to do all star but didn’t have the time commitment and even this year, i couldn’t do school cheer bc i’m really involved in class council who sells food at the football games… hopefully we’ll be able to discuss pros/cons to cheering after dec. 9th! lol</p>

<p>@hoiboy you mentioned you were applying to nursing right? are you actually a “boy”? haha just going by your username. in terms of your question, i think not necessarily. from my school district, i’m sure schools like penn expect scores in the 2200s+ as opposed to being high-achieving but having a lower score than that in a less competitive school. either way you have to stand out in your personal situation</p>