Chance Me for Rice University

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rice University
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Black Male
Income bracket: 200k+

Rank 26/511 (5.08%)
GPA(unweighted)- 3.935
UC GPA(uw)- - 4.0
ACT- 33(35E 32M 34R 29S 7W); SuperScore- 34 (35S) (what kind of physics major am I lol)
Subject Test-780 Math 2 770 Physics
AP Scores- AP Physics 1(3) AP Physics 2(3) AP Human(3) APUSH(3) AP Seminar(3) AP World History(3) AP Lang(4) AP Stats(4) (I’m awful at AP Test)

EC:
Comepetive Tennis for 9 years-played alot of tournaments and won a few
Varsity Tennis all four years- Senior Captain This Year,(Area qualifier and Bi-District Champs)
USTA Tennis Player-UTR of 7 and 16s boys champ(texas thing)
USTA JTT Tennis State 2 years in a row( 4th place one year 9th the other)
National Honor Society
Founder and President Of HS Physics Club
Mellon Summer academy for math and science-rigorous summer program for STEM Students, EQT and Siemans fellow Nominee
Research at DAS Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon the summer of my senior year-Biochemistry RNA stuff
Harvard Precollege- Took Intro to Quantum Atomic and Particle Physics,
Worked for about 1.5 years now at college prep place and at market street

Awards(not so good):
National Merit Commended
AP Scholar with honors
Academic Honors
Academic Letter
Varsity letter all 4 years
EQT and Siemens Fellow Nominee

Our school doesn’t have science Olympiad or any academic clubs other than AC Dec but I cant do because I have tennis during that period. I have universities by me but none of them were willing to allow me to do physics research. Tennis takes up a significant portion of my time so I cant join many clubs so anything I do I have to do in the summer

I can write essays pretty well and my Teacher recs should be good.

I really don’t know what else to put so just tell me if you need more. Thx

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JNicElse, I think you really have a good chance. I assume you’re applying regular admission? Spend the rest of your time until your application is due working on your essays. Of course, tell the committee what you love about Rice and why you need to be there. But since tennis has been a big part of your high school experience, perhaps an essay could focus on it. Why do you love tennis? How did you learn the game? What have you gotten from it? Has it changed you? How do you approach the game today? Give the admissions committee a sense of who you are not just through your love of tennis but through all your hard work and endless hours of practice that got you where you are. And make your essays compelling. And by the way, you make them compelling by keeping it real.

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@Maximilias I wrote my common app about my hoodies cuz I thought it would keep me from being too one dimensional. Also thanks for the opinion! Glad to know someone thinks I can get in lol

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That sounds pretty interesting, JnicElse. Writing about your hoodies and what they mean to you will tell the admissions committee a lot about who you are. If you get in, will you play on the tennis team? Good luck, man!

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@maximilias Yeah but probably not varsity. I need get my skills up a bit for that lol

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I think you have a very good chance as you have top grades and good scores. Rice seems to be very intentional about having a very diverse class. You are taking a rigorous class load. Rice will only give credit for AP scores of 4 or 5.