Chance me for Rice please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>High School: Private (I think its pretty competitive)
Positive I'm in the top 3-4% out of around 400 students, but my school really doesn't rank</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.5 Unweighed: 3.9
(My school counts A-'s as 3.7s. I know some other schools don't do this)
Taking the most rigourous courses available to me every year</p>

<p>APs:
Calc BC 5
Calc AB 5
AP Euro History 5
AP English Lang 5
AP Psychology 4
APUSH 4</p>

<p>Currently taking: AP Econ, AP English Lit, AP Bio, AP French Language, AP Stats
SAT Superscore (took with twice junior year)
2300 (Math: 800, Writing: 800, Reading: 700)</p>

<p>Sat 2s:
Math II: 800
Chem: 790
US History: 760
Biology: 760</p>

<p>Honors:
AP Merit Semi-finalist (12th)
AP Scholar with distinction (12th)
Academic distinction award - English (9th)
National Honors Society</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
- Speech and Debate: I've done it all four years. Currently public forum captain. I've gotten to elimination rounds at several tournaments.
- 270+ hours of volunteering at El Camino Hospital. Currently on the El Camino Junior Auxillary Board (7-8 students who manage activities and problems for the junior volunteers. Fundraisers, etc)
- Research Internship at Vanderbilt Medical Center for 6 weeks in the speech and hearing sciences
- Founder and President of a small-nonprofit. Working with two other non-profit organizations: Youth Vision Uganda and Omprakash. Have aided the building of a school in Uganda and provided various supplies to schools in India. Not on a huge scale, but we did it as a background hobby
- Participated in Stanford Health Advocacy Summer camp where I learned about health advocacy. Have started a small branch with 2 others under our service club to promote the idea of health advocacy. Leader of the branch
- Shadowed several surgeons and doctors on a trip to India and during my research internship.
- Science Bowl team member for all 4 years
- Volunteer at diamond care nursing home for the elderly</p>

<p>My recs from my counselor and bio teacher should be very good. I'm getting one from my history which should be decent at min. I'm also getting one from my research internship and she said she would be honored to give me a rec, so i'm happy abt that. </p>

<p>Can you also give me an estimate of where my matches, reaches and safties might be?</p>

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<p>Rice should be no problem. And there are thousands of colleges out there so you fall into a lot of reach, match, and safeties for sure but with your credentials you can get into so many places, congrats on the hard work!</p>

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<p>I think you have a great shot at rice. If you are applying ED I think you are in without a doubt. THat means anything below should be fine. You never know with ivys but you certainly would be a competitive applicant at them. Good luck!</p>

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