Chance Me! Please! Rice U!

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<p>I'm a HS junior, here are my stats:</p>

<p>3.7 weigted cummulative GPA (expected to go up)
Class rank: 10/617 (expected to go up)</p>

<p>Courses:
9th:
PAP World Georaphy
PAP English I
PAP Biology
Geometry
Spanish II
Wind Ensemble (top band)
Tennis
Record Keeping</p>

<p>10th:
PAP World History
PAP Algebra II
PAP English II
PAP Chem
AP Spanish Lang
Wind Ensemble (1st chair)
Choir</p>

<p>11th
PAP Precalculus
PAP Physics
AP Spanish literature
AP English III
AP US Hist
French I
Business Computer Information Systems
(straight As high Bs expected)</p>

<p>Expected senior schedule:
AP Calculus
AP Gov't/Ec
AP Eng IV
AP Biology
PAP French II
(don't know what other classes to take)
(straight As high Bs expected)</p>

<p>ECs:
9th- Band
10th-Band(section leader), Choir, NHS
11th-French club, French symposium, NHS, and I tutor kids in my HS after school.
12- same as 11th^^ but with offices in the French Club and NHS, and a French Honor Society member.</p>

<p>Community service: besides tutoring at my HS, not really a whole lot, will work on it</p>

<p>Awards:
Academic Excellence Award for 9th grade.
Superior rating(highest rating) for F Horn solo, 9th grade.
Excellent rating(2nd highest rating) for Choir solo, 10th Grade.</p>

<p>Test scores:
AP Span Lang- 5
SAT- (expected 2100+)
SAT Subject Italian (Expected 650+)
SAT Sublect Math IIC (Expected 650+)
Other APs (Expected 4+)</p>

<p>I know I don't really have much on ECs and Community service, but my parents are in the middle of their divorce, I tutor my little sister who's in middle school, teach my mother English, and help raise my baby brother of one year.</p>

<p>My family emigrated from Mexico about 12 years ago, and we're upper-lower-class (don't know if that helps)</p>

<p>I live in the Houston-Area, this might hurt me.</p>

<p>◘ Will apply ED
◘ Plan to major in linguistics or poli-sci
I do plan to write a damn good essay!</p>

<p>PLEASE!
Chance me!</p>

<p>-Thanks </p>

<p>**** I quit band and choir due to financial constraints</p>

<p>*** PAP= Pre-AP (preparation for AP)</p>

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<p>You really don’t have to post the same thread in the same forum twice in ~20 hours. Really.</p>

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<p>Chances are not meaningful, so just apply. :)</p>

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<p>well pretty much anyone accepted to a high profile school like rice has plenty of community service, extracurriculars, AND academic strength. work on the community service part and join some more clubs. however, since you are doing this all in your junior year and trying to cram all the good stuff in, it might look bad to admissions counselors because you didn’t get really involved in school starting freshman year.</p>

<p>source: A is for Admission - by Michele A. Hernandez</p>

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<p>DS did not have a lot of EC’s, and little community service and he got accepted. Don’t worry about looking bad. Do what you like to do, apply and see. :)</p>