<p>@OldKnave, I asked b/c that would probably explain your 3.2 to the adcoms.</p>
<p>Come on guys, whats your favorite cheesy jokes?</p>
<p>@free2rhyme
yeah, that’s what my guidance counselor at my new school tried to stress. I was just wondering because I imagine there are few or none people out there with a 2300 but a 3.2</p>
<p>favorite cheesy joke…
What do you call a cheese that’s not yours?
Nacho cheese</p>
<p>@aangel & acceptmealready I did the dreaming prompt. There is no set date yet for UChicago. I’m pretty sure they will spontaneously send us an email when they’re up rather than tell us ahead of time when they were come out. I’m pretty sure they typically come out on December 15 +/- 2 days.</p>
<p>@oldknave
I had an admissions interview, but the interviewer cared more about my family than my extracurriculars. it was horrible. that is the one thing that i hate about going to penn, probably the only thing i have found so far.
you live in baltimore??? i do too!</p>
<p>@oldknave I applied single legacy to CAS undecided major. I got a 2250 SAT and 4.71 GPA (3.91 unweighted) but my extracurriculars aren’t that great. I did send SAT IIs, but my scores weren’t that great. I hope they only look at 2 because I got a 550 on World History. I also got a 33 on the ACT. I did have an interview, but we didn’t talk about much of substance.</p>
<p>@acceptmealready
Yeah…my interviewer talked for about an hour about how difficult Penn is, and how hard I’m going to have to work “if you get in, which I think you will,” and then I would try to ask a question or make a point, and then he would start over on his having to work hard and not “f*** around” (yeah he said that a half dozen times)
Yeah I don’t know how I feel about going where my whole family went… I’m not especially fond of following in my parents footsteps, but at the same time I’m appreciative of the fact that I might be able to get in because of them</p>
<p>and yeah Bmore, ellicott city to be exact… gotta tell you though if you’ve ever spent time in Philly I really don’t think Baltimore can hold a candle to it.</p>
<p>@oldknave
yeah my interviewer was awful too. maybe we had the same one…haha
SAME. i had such an issue because i was finding that penn was the right school for me but i just didn’t know if i could handle alumnae weekends with my parents and grandpa. in the end though, it is definitely the right school for me so i guess im just glad i have that to help me.</p>
<p>i have…baltimore is…ehh. i live in the suburbs and there is nOTHING to do.</p>
<p>By the way, exactly 4 days as of 12 minutes ago.</p>
<p>SO many people from Baltimore. I live there too, oldknave.</p>
<p>sooo weird. i would ask what schools, but i know ppl are iffy about that kind of stuff. also i probs wouldn’t want to share that either 
haha. go baltimore!</p>
<p>I live in Towson if that helps. I don’t exactly think you’re going to hunt me down.</p>
<p>haha, just curious. if so many of you are from baltimore, how come there wasn’t an interest in applying ED to JHU?</p>
<p>I completely agree about the suburbs. Couldn’t possibly be more boring IMO. Which is even worse, because my parents basically have told me if I don’t get into Penn or some other Ivy, I have to go to UMD College Park b/c of the money. Don’t get me wrong, its a good school, but the last thing I want to do is go to school on a suburban campus, especially one so close to home. IDK if accetmealready and empaige21, not sure if you have the same pressures to consider going there.</p>
<p>I think like a lot of people here, I also applied to UChicago. Never been but it seems nice.</p>
<p>@oldknave
I applied single legacy - 2120 SAT, 3.83 GPA, 710 physics, 760 math II – I have the same question as emr, does Penn consider SAT IIs beyond your two highest scores? (I got a 680 in chem and a 600 in Spanish…blah)
So I have pretty horrible numbers, but I have really strong ECs and pretty good essays.
Expecting a rejection letter haha. But a 3.2 and a 2300…since you went to a private school (I’m assuming it was a very, very competitive one), I’m sure they’ll take that into account (what was your ranking freshman-junior year?).</p>
<p>Also, interesting article:</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: 2011 Wharton graduates see salary increase](<a href=“http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/12/2011_wharton_grads_see_higher_salaries]The”>2011 Wharton graduates see salary increase | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>
<p>Guys…chill. Does it really matter now whether Penn considers SAT II now or not? It doesn’t. FYI, I am in the same boat as you. I sent a really bad SAT II to them as well. </p>
<p>If their policy says they will look at your two best scores, they will look at your two best scores. Someone else who actually attends Penn wrote that somewhere on CC. So chill.</p>
<p>@laodicean
we didn’t have rankings. And I’m not so sure about whether or not it was competitive. The main thing was that there were practically no weighted honors or AP courses, especially freshmen/sophmore years, so my gpa is adversely affected by that in that sense.</p>
<p>As for you, it seems like they don;t care too much about SATs as long as you get a 2100, or at least they care less than you would think. I’d imagine that they give very little weight to the third or fourth SAT 2, especially if it isn’t in your major, like spanish?</p>
<p>@Senio12, even though JHU has a very high early decision acceptance rate, I didn;t think it would be a good comp sci school, compared to Penn. Can’t speak for everyone else.</p>
<p>@empaige i live in pikesville.</p>
<p>I actually really liked JHU i just don’t like the emphasis on science, plus i have already explored all of downtown baltimore…i want a new city!</p>
<p>i visited uchicago and it is BEAUTIFUL and perfect and if there was no such thing as penn, that is where i would go.</p>
<p>THE BEST THING ABOUT PENN ADMISSIONS WHICH I LOVE: even though the process is not exactly foolproof, I LOVE how they actually care what you actually write in your essays, and what others say about you in the recs. I feel all the other top schools look at them and it is maybe a comparatively smaller portion of their decision.</p>
<p>Based on Yale stats, I can see they freakin’ just love the SAT. I think their SAT interquartile range is higher than Harvard’s.</p>
<p>Did anyone else apply to UVA EA? Or planning to apply there? Or visited?</p>