Yea, my apologies. Actually when I was doing research on those schools (in Nov), I had 32 on ACT, and my friends all told me not to apply to Rice and Notre Dame REA (which is my dream school), simply because I had a “below-average-ACT”.
I guess it’s because our situation is sort of similar, which causes me to temporarily became “my friends” when I was chancing you.
Congrats on your admission to GIT!! A lot of my friends with 35 ACTs didn’t get in 
so you go man!