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Colleges and Universities A-Z Rice University
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<p>-GA resident, male
-Ethnicity: mixed Hispanic (Spanish) and Asian (Filipino)
-UW GPA: 3.94ish
-Weighted GPA: 4.14
-school doesn't rank, but I got an award for being the junior with the highest weighted GPA, meaning I'm a would-be valedictorian.</p>

<p>SAT I's
Math: 800
CR: 730
Writing:710</p>

<p>SAT II's (should I take some more, I'm also applying to 5/8 of the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT as well)
Math II: 800
Chem: 720
U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>AP scores:
US Gov and Politics: 5
APUSH: 5
AP Chem: 5
AP Eng. Lang: 5</p>

<p>Senior Load
1. AP Calculus BC
2. AP Statistics (is it true stats is not really math, but is more like reading?)
3. AP Biology
4. AP Physics C
5. H British Literature
6. Economics (I wish my school offered AP.)</p>

<p>-school doesn't offer honors classes, but mentions "due to the rigorous curriculum of the school, no classes are designated as honors" in school description.</p>

<p>My only B's have been graphic design freshman year, AP Gov last year(will a 5 on the exam atone for this), and a mandatory composition class at our school this summer? I got straight A's junior year.</p>

<p>-will mention Math, Economics, and Chemistry respectively as my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice majors. I want to be an investment banker or hedge fund manager when I grow up.</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Boy Scouts
-Eagle Scout (just did my board of review). My project was building benches, pressure-washing old ones, and putting sealant.
-Senior Patrol Leader during 10th grade, Patrol Leader during 9th
-broke a national record for hiking. I hiked the Bartram Trail (100 miles/5 days, has a lot of elevation): honored by Governor Sonny Purdue and national head of boy scouts for this feat
-LOTS of community service projects
-raised money for inner-city kids to buy scout uniforms
-Philmont Summer 2010-completed trek 34, the hardest trek Philmont has to offer (Only 5 crews this entire summer out of the 1000+ that come to Philmont did trek 34).</p>

<p>Tennis (all 4 years)
-private lesons
-varsity tennis</p>

<p>Academic Quiz Bowl team (10-12)</p>

<p>I founded and am president of our school's food critic club. We go to restaurants about once a month and write critiques about them, which are published in the school newspaper. I'm trying to see if we can get published in the Zagat Survey.</p>

<p>Trumpet
-Superior Rating (9,10,11) at Solo Ensemble Festival
-Community Jazz Band (9-12)
-GISA all-select band member (11th grade) (top band members of private schools in GA)
-played for church on Sundays
-invited to play at school's open house 10th grade</p>

<p>Piano for 11 years
-invited to play at several concerts</p>

<p>Young Republicans (should i say this? i know prestigious colleges are very liberal?)
-Vice President in club
-Raised money every year for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (don't know exact amount, club's teacher sponsor can tell us).
-campaigned for McCain for president, and Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson for U.S. Senate</p>

<p>Duke TIP summer program (summers after 9th and 10th grade, I respectively studied macroecon. and robotics)</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
-Georgia Certificate of Merit
-Phi Beta Kappa Award (given to Junior with the highest weighted GPA in class)</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:
I also volunteer at the library during the summer.
-I'm almost certain my PSAT score will qualify me for semifinalist standing in the NMS search. I didn't fill out Hispanic in the ethnicity section (didn't know about it at the time), so I wont get National Hispanic Recognition Program Honors.</p>

<p>Recommendations: I know several teachers at my school who like me and will probably write well about me.
Essay: 1) talk about high adventure programs in Boy Scouts
2) talk about how certain adversity in a trumpet competition didn't kill my trumpet passions.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rice-university/966005-how-another-top-school-adcom-looks-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rice-university/966005-how-another-top-school-adcom-looks-admissions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>aplly and you will find out</p>

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<p>How well can you drive a batmobile? Only then will you know your true chance for admission at the great rice university.</p>

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<p>Assuming you can drive a batmobile you are a competitive applicant. Apply and see. We can’t tell if you can get in, only the admission office can tell you that.</p>

<p>ps: tell us more about your trumpet adversity please.</p>

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<p>hahahahahahahahaha</p>

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<p>You guys are weird!</p>

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<p>Getting accepted to Stanford and the Ivies will be difficult. They are reaches for most qualified applicants. Your EC’s and GPA are excellent but your current SAT score is a little low for these schools, with the possible exception being Cornell. I think your chances at Cornell are pretty good. You have a very good shot at Rice. Make sure you do a school visit or college fair in your local region and interview either at the school or with an alum locally. You need to “show them some love” if you want them to show you some back and accept you! Cornell and Rice are on completely different ends of the spectrum. Big school vs. small school. 20K students v 5K students including grads. Rural v more Urban. I’d be interested in seeing what other schools you have on your list besides the HYPS’s and Rice. There are a ton of great Ivy-caliber schools such as Duke and WashU, just to name two of them. Good luck.</p>

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<p>yes, because Rice is that much easier to get into?? I think you are placing these Ivies on a pedestal…</p>

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<p>@jshain. I’m trying to get at least a 2300 superscored when I retake this October or November.</p>

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<p>just apply. No one can tell you anything that means a damn except the admissions department. </p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>Ant, I think you are probably right. Why don’t you recommend to the administrator to remove the “What are my chances” from the home page?</p>

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<p>or how about we leave it for those who think they know the answer while we can try to help people here with stuff that, in my opinion, is based on fact and experience</p>

<p>do you want to dissuade someone from applying?</p>

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<p>I would say that you have a decent chance at all of these schools, but they are sort of unpredictable. I would recommend applying to 2-3 safety schools too.</p>

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<p>do you want to dissuade someone from applying? </p>

<p>Absolutely not, but I absolutely think you want to dissuade my “freedom of speech”. You sound a little pompous and arrogant and I also suspect somewhat bitter. Perhaps you applied to an Ivy school and were rejected, before accepting/attending Rice? It probably ended up working out well for you-- at least I truly hope so. I also hope my son gets accepted there and that he attends. I know that it is an extremely top-notch school and that it won’t be easy for him to get accepted. And yes, I think it probably is easier to get into Rice than Stanford or HYP and perhaps slightly easier than BDP (depending on major)…</p>

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<p>didnt know my opinion violated the First Amendment. sorry</p>

<p>You can go ahead and say what you want. You arent an admissions officer. pure and simple. All I want to do is add a disclaimer, that anything any of us say is pure speculation and carries no weight from a university standpoint whatsoever.</p>

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<p>You should apply.</p>

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<p>You can go ahead and say what you want. You arent an admissions officer. pure and simple. All I want to do is add a disclaimer, that anything any of us say is pure speculation and carries no weight from a university standpoint whatsoever. </p>

<p>Duly noted and hopefully a given that chance posters know this already… Take care!</p>

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<p>I think that it’s a near match. Your math score is great.</p>

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<p>what’s BDP?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure really; my best guess is Brown, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania.</p>

<p>I’ve never heard that acronym used before though.</p>