Chance Me, Rice, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon University

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi Y’all, I’m a female high school junior, MD, looking for opinions on my standing towards Rice, Notre Dame and CMU! Thank you so much in advance. Looking to study maybe either classical or environmental architecture, maybe both?

Currently I have 240 service hours under my belt, looking to put in more.

I’m a part of Tri-M (music honors society), English Honors Society, NHS, and next year I plan to apply to Science and Math, because of these I have become a student tutor for Pre-Calc and History classes.

I’ve run 8 seasons of Track and Field/ Cross Country and out of school I play travel soccer as well.

I have a weighted GPA of 4.61, not sure what it is unweighted as of right now, will have to check.

Sophomore year 1 AP, straight A’s soph and fresh, Junior year 3 IB courses, 2 AP’s the rest are honors. No finalized Junior grades yet but so far okay/pretty good. BC calc is my hardest class. Next year I plan to do similar but 3 APs and 2 IBs, need to finish out english and history IBs and take health.

I take the SAT next Saturday, fingers crossed, and I’m not afraid to retake until I get at least a 1500, don’t think its a strech after some practice tests. ACT in feb.

Some other EC: In schools audition only Chamber Chorus, includes performances at White House and National Zoo, Currently curate and run social media/ the website for The Museum of Current American Teenagers, mocatpopup.org, I do some graohic design work or them also, School Newspaper Art Editor, Have raised in part (with a close friends family) a good sum of money for the International Myeloma Foundation through annual 5k’s (lots of reaching out to sponsors and planning on my end), Sleep-away Camp Counselor, Rec. Basketball in Winter, Part of multiple clubs at school, ex: Math Club, Body Positive, Girls Rising in Technology, Debate Team for 2 years, had to drop this year nothing amazing competition wise though, Run a store on redbubble.com with some graphic design work.

Again, thanks, please leave any questions, be honest.

Realizing now this was accidentally posted twice. Not sure how to delete one though…

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Really too soon to say, though you are on track to be a competitive candidate. What draws you to those three in particular?

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You are on the right track. If you score a 1500+ on the SAT and get two 700s+ on subject tests while maintaining high grades, you have a good shot at these schools. You also want to continue pursuing your ECs and look for leadership positions as well as awards/depth to show proficiency at what you do outside of school

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I’m really looking towards schools that provide strong Architecture programs undergrad (ND and Rice) or in CMU’s case, strong liberal arts programs as well. Notre Dame in particular has an awesome classical architecture program that I’m very interested in.

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doorrealthe, What sort of leadership positions do you recommend? I would love to hear suggestions.

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@doorrealthe and @collegemom3717 sorry! ^^^

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You ought to add WashU to the list. It’s similar to Rice and ND. My D applied to WashU, Rice and ND. She is a senior now at WashU.

I believe Rice and ND are very stats oriented whereas WashU is more holistic. So you definitely need to get high SAT scores. :slight_smile:

Also there is an Architecture thread so be sure to post there if you haven’t yet.

Good luck!!

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Any major leadership position helps. Try becoming the head of your chamber chorus if there is such a position. Apply for the co-editor in chief position of your school newspaper. Be the captain of your debate team or the president of the math team. Two strong leadership positions would help your application in addition to high test scores