Chance me? Rice rice baby!

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<p>I'm not really the most qualified candidate (probably bottom 25% of the applicants), but I'm passionate about Rice as Rice is probably my only serious out-of-state application at the moment (due to its highly prestigious applied science program). Though I'll be ready for that rejection letter :(</p>

<p>GPA: 4.5ish (can't see my GPA atm, i'll get exact soon but that's pretty close)
Class Rank: 10 out of 500ish
ACT: 28 (29 w/o writing but Rice only takes one with writing)
SAT: no SATs
AP:</p>

<p>English Language & Composition (3)
Biology (4)
World History (4)
Chemistry (5)
US History (5)
Human Geography (5)</p>

<p>Senior Workcourse:</p>

<p>AP Statistics
AP United States Government
AP English Literature & Composition
AP Spanish Language
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics B</p>

<p>Extracurricular
National Honor Society
*Service Chairman
Key Club
Asian American Society
Senior Council
Student Council Senator
Spanish Club
Varsity Swim Team
*3x Swimmer of the Year (male)
*Student-Athlete of the Week (daily newspaper)
*All-City,All-Conference,All-State
*Senior year- probably end up captain
*3x Conference Finalist
*3x State Qualifier
*3x State Finalist</p>

<p>Outside of school
12 year pianist
10 years of club swimming (USA)
I did a series of volunteer work, particularly with teaching underrepresented minorities how to swim.
No job, sadly :(</p>

<p>Asian ethnicity. From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Also did some various course work with the clean up and rebuilding of Moore, Oklahoma after the May 20th tornadoes.</p>

<p>I also understand that Rice doesn't have a male NCAA swim team so my chances won't get better with my athletics stats because I can't get recruited (but I don't plan on swimming in college due to my focus on academics/volunteering work in college). </p>

<p>No National Merits. No high ACT. Nothing really exceptional in extracurricular so yeah..</p>

<p>So think I can make it? Terrible stats I know but there could be a chance in everything right?? :P</p>

<p>also I do plan on taking more ACT tests to raise my score but rate my chances currently and then rate it if i do end up getting better score.</p>

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<p>I think you have to take 2 SAT subject exams. Are you applying this fall? Time to get registered for those tests :-)</p>

<p>Spend some time preparing for those standardized tests. Yes, your score needs to be higher. SAT might be a better test for you. ACT and SAT are not the same.</p>

<p>You don’t stand out, but you are not at the bottom either :-). Try to get better scores, get greats recs, and write awesome essays.</p>

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<p>What’s your unweighted GPA? That’s a major factor. The fact that you’re near the top of your high school is good, you have decent extracurriculars and your schedule is solid. I could see you getting in, but I don’t know how your essay, recommendations or interview are. </p>

<p>You could very well get in, it’s just a matter of putting forward AMAZING recommendation letters and essay. Good luck to you and I hope to see you around campus next fall!</p>

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<p>@crazymomster - I’ve checked the Rice admission website and it said that either the ACT (w/ writing) or the SAT plus two subject test though I might be reading it wrong. I’ll try and see if I can get an SAT set up but sadly Oklahoma has a higher preference towards the ACT. =&lt;/p>

<p>@JIBA17 - I’ve checked and unweighted I have 3.95 which isn’t perfect but shows I’ve made some decent grades overall.</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

<p>and it’s quite early in the year but i’ll update on my recommendations/essays/interviews</p>