Strange UPenn admission

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid at our school got into UPenn RD. 1200 SAT scores and 3s and 4s on APs (although probably test optional, since this was the last year Penn allowed that). Straight As but avoided many of the hardest classes offered at school, not close to highest rigor. Very mid-level ECs. White girl, no hooks. The only minor "hook" we can think of is that she's an artsy humanities major, which they maybe don't get a lot of due to how pre-professional Penn is. She got uniformly rejected by other top tier, mid tier, and low-mid tier schools. She is really unexcited about going to Penn but committed due to lack of other options. Were Penn admissions strange this year?

Opposite of someone I know who got in. 4.0, clubs up the yazoo, community involvement, perfect scores. her linkedin reads like she 30.

now this is what i find creepy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penn has lost its luster for many, and $10 million from donors. If you are full pay they may have snapped that up.

Incorrect. Penn had 72k applications, a new record and the highest %increase of any ivy/top10. Penn is hot right now. Almost 20% of the class applied. Only the very top got in unhooked, in addition to a legacy who was also a top kid

[Anonymous]

^almost 20% of our kids HS

[Anonymous]

Leave this poor girl alone. I got into a top school and everyone around me said I shouldn’t have gotten in. It really messed with my head and even though I did great there I always had impostor syndrome from my peers and their parents who said “wowwww” in that insincere way. Just stop. Let her live her own experience without your judgment. We all know that college admissions isn’t predictable.

[Anonymous]

Why do you know and care so much about another student? Creepy. Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid at our school got into UPenn RD. 1200 SAT scores and 3s and 4s on APs (although probably test optional, since this was the last year Penn allowed that). Straight As but avoided many of the hardest classes offered at school, not close to highest rigor. Very mid-level ECs. White girl, no hooks. The only minor "hook" we can think of is that she's an artsy humanities major, which they maybe don't get a lot of due to how pre-professional Penn is. She got uniformly rejected by other top tier, mid tier, and low-mid tier schools. She is really unexcited about going to Penn but committed due to lack of other options. Were Penn admissions strange this year?

Why would a kid like this even bother applying to an Ivy? A 1200? 3s on AP tests? Makes no sense.

Test optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penn has gotten so extremely pre-professional that it probably doesn't appeal to many artsy kids. That might be the hook right there.

This.
💯

[Anonymous]

You’re an awful person, OP. Leave this teenage kid alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How on earth would OP know another kid in school's SAT scores?

Kids talk that’s how.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penn has gotten so extremely pre-professional that it probably doesn't appeal to many artsy kids. That might be the hook right there.

Based on my junior’s friend group: the symphony, the a capella, the dozens of dance groups are very hard to get into. There is a lot of interest and a lot of cuts for freshmen in most of these. Penn Band is more of an open group and there are some open theater groups too. Every single one of DC’s friends does some sort of performance or visual art. And they are mostly Seas kids. Arts are common among admitted students; there is a giant new arts complex under way which will allow more instrumental and dance studio practice space. Seems like every kid was all state choir or orchestra or similar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to follow up, rejected at BU, NYU, Northeastern, Northwestern, and many others. Definitely not a secret rich family member. I guess it comes down to having the right AO see something that no one else does.

Are you mentally ill? Genuine question.

Unless this is your kid, MYOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is probably a rich donor in her family you don't know about.

Though she did have a fantastic GPA, so there is that. And maybe her teachers wrote glowing letters of rec.

+1 and maybe she had a fantastic arts portfolio

You also have little clue of her ECs as several kids have accomplishments outside of school. Add in essays and awards also.

When I graduated in the early 2000s, we had a quiet kid who turned out to be homeless/raising himself for most of high school (single mom was strung out on drugs). Always composed and well put together, only stood out to me because he often wore suits. Ended up at Cornell. I couldn't tell you of a single club he was a part of at school. I also had no clue that he was working mostly fulltime outside of school. I didn't find out about any of this until after graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is creepy.

Yes. Some parents are losers.

[Anonymous]

OP sounds seriously unhinged. None of the test scores matter since it is test optional. The school saw a student who had a 4.0 unweighted.

It doesn’t matter if she didn’t take Calculus BC or AP Chemistry if she is majoring in humanities.

Why is OP so bitter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is probably a rich donor in her family you don't know about.

Though she did have a fantastic GPA, so there is that. And maybe her teachers wrote glowing letters of rec.

+1 and maybe she had a fantastic arts portfolio

You also have little clue of her ECs as several kids have accomplishments outside of school. Add in essays and awards also.

When I graduated in the early 2000s, we had a quiet kid who turned out to be homeless/raising himself for most of high school (single mom was strung out on drugs). Always composed and well put together, only stood out to me because he often wore suits. Ended up at Cornell. I couldn't tell you of a single club he was a part of at school. I also had no clue that he was working mostly fulltime outside of school. I didn't find out about any of this until after graduation.

Omg. this breaks my heart.