Chance me please : ]....

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rice University
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<p>My credentials:</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Turkish, fluent speaker of turkish (spoken in the house)
Location: New Jersey
High School: A magnet school for biotechnology/A sister school of a top 10 high school in America.</p>

<p>SAT: 780 math, 680 crit, 660 writing
SAT II's: 760 World History, 700 Biology (molecular)</p>

<p>IB program: IB Diploma candidate
GPA: 91, ranked top 10%</p>

<p>Freshman: All honors classes
Chemistry, Biology, Geometry, World History, English, Spanish I, Research I</p>

<p>Sophomore: All honors classes
Biology (medical/agricultural), Physics, Algebra II, U.S History, English, Spanish II, Research II</p>

<p>Junior: All non specified classes honors classes
IB Biology HL, IB Physics HL, IB Math A2 SL, IB English HL, IB World History SL, Spanish III, Research III.</p>

<p>Senior: All no specified classes honors classes
IB Biology HL, IB Physics HL, IB Math A2 SL, IB English HL, IB TOK, IB Spanish, Bio Business </p>

<p>Extra Curricular:
NYU precollege- Eco 1- got an A (Plus a great rec from the teacher)
Over 200 hours of community service (mult. awards recieved for efforts)
Founded a mock trial club (11th)
President of mock trial (11th and 12th grade)
JSA- Debate coordinator (10th grade)
JSA- State assembly representative (11th grade)
JSA- President (11th and 12th grade)
JSA- Director of Expansion for the Mid-Atlantic State region.(11th and 12th grade)
SGA- Class representative of 2009 (11th and 12 grade)
Orientation committee for the school
Varsity Swimmer (9th-12th)
Football (9th)</p>

<p>Sorry for writing too much, so what are my chances?</p>

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<p>I think you have great chances-i'm involved in JSA as well</p>

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<p>SAT's are pretty decent, GPA is a little on the weak side but it looks like you challenged yourself with your courses, which is good. You are from out of state which is somewhat advantageous. Your extracurriculars in JSA and mock-trial seem pretty consistent, it should stand out as a "passion" depending how you did your applications.</p>

<p>If your recommendations and (especially) your essays were good, I'd say you have a very good chance. Your chances are decent even with mediocre essays.</p>

<p>In other words, you "qualify" for Rice, but they have more "qualified" applicants than they have room in the student body. So the question is "will you stand out among the other applicants?" and I think you have a pretty good chance of doing so, especially if your essays were good. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you for the feedback, my GPA is unweighted, but you are right, I should have brought it up a couple points.</p>

<p>Anyone else have feedback?</p>