About Adarsh Shah Expertise I can answer most questions pertaining to UPENN and the Wharton Business School; questions about admissions, academics, environment, sports, Philadelphia, and life in general.
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Expert: Adarsh Shah Date: 11/10/2006 Subject: admissions
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-----Question-----hi, does penn use the academic index?if so what do you need on a scale of 1-9, to get admited.--thnxs
jambo. is it true that penn likes kenyans ,i have applied but not stated in th ap.----ritin
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Habari! It's true, Penn does try to encourage applicants from Kenya because of the low number of applicants received from our country. Of course this still doesn't make Penn easy to get in to! You shouldn't need to mention anything explicitly on your application - if your High School or home address is Kenyan they might pick it up.
Let me know if you need anything else!
cheers,
Adarsh
Answer Hello – thank you for your question! I must sincerely apologize for the delay in response, I had to make a somewhat last-minute trip to Kenya, where I didn’t have an internet connection for a while. I hope this delay doesn’t majorly inconvenience you.
I'm not aware of a 1-9 scale, in any case the formula isn't published so it's hard to give any guidelines. I would doubt they use a scale because grading varies from country to country, for instance in the US it is possible to have a GPA of over 4.0 (higher than an A avg).
Don't worry about such things, do as well as you can, and submit as strong an application as you can.
