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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse and I both graduated from Penn, our older kid (hs class 2023) had a 4.75 gpa in mcps, 1590 SAT, 15 APs of all 5s with a few 4s, top rigor incl APs in all 5 core subjects and math thru MV calc, was captain of varsity sports team along with other ECs, strong writer, I believe strong recs, and was not accepted (applied ED). Other equally qualified kids his year had same results, only kid accepted was an ED app and had a hook. We won’t even have younger sib apply. [/quote]

Strong:
Number of APs and mostly 5s
SAT
Legacy

Neutral (assume most have this)
Good writer
Letters of rec

Not:
-MV math is good but not what I wld think is ivy great (lots of kids have a year beyond that)
- captain of a varsity sports is meaningless (over saturated)
- legacy - counterintuitive but: http://www.thedp.com/article/2023/03/penn-legacy-admissions-policy-changes-university

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Agree with your gist but you are wrong on the math. I have a kid at an ivy and one at a “little ivy,” and both have reported that many of their classmates “only” took calc as a senior (in many excellent school systems in the northeast (not magnets), that is the most rigorous path), and many of them “only” took calc ab. My kids both took thru calc bc, so not even MV like pp’s kid. At Whitman, where my kids went, I don’t think they even offer beyond MV.

To get back to op’s question, if Penn is your kid’s dream school, then sure apply, but even if she gets her SAT to above 1500 she will be in a pool with literally tens of thousands of equally qualified kids. I’d suggest you try to find a college (Emory?) that has many of the aspects she likes about Penn, but where her stats give her a better shot and where early decision is an advantage. [/quote]

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