Chance please...you know u wanna

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<p>Hey! I'm a rising junior from Texas...For my junior year I will be going to TAMS (Texas Academy of Math and Science), which is a residential program where students live on the campus of the University of North Texas, and take college classes.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.9ish
Rank: 14 of ~1000</p>

<p>Human Geography Ap-5
World History AP-5</p>

<p>PSAT CR: 72
PSAT Math: 80
PSAT WR: 78</p>

<p>ECs:
Marching Band (Alto Saxophone for 6 years so far): (9th-10th, 15 hours a week from September-Dec)
Section leader (9th), Squad leader 10th....gonna do band throughout high school </p>

<p>JETS chapter: founder/president (10th..gonna continue till end of high school)</p>

<p>HOPE: community service club...founder and president (10th-12th)</p>

<p>Math club: secretary (10th)...gonna do this thrughout high school</p>

<p>Research in physics gonna try to do ISEF and some other science competitions this year</p>

<p>Junior Year schedule
Fall Semester – </p>

<p>Biology 1711 (lecture), Biology 1730 (lab)
Chemistry 1410 or 1413, Chemistry 1430 (lab)
English 1315
Math 1710
Seminar
P051 Mechanics</p>

<p>Spring Semester – </p>

<p>Biology 1722 (lecture), Biology 1740 (lab)
Chemistry 1420 or 1423 (lecture), Chemistry 1440 (lab)
English 1325
Math 1720
Seminar
Electives: Band and Spanish
P053 Electricity & Magnetism </p>

<p>Awards: </p>

<p>State Award for Outstanding Soloist for music (3 ppl total out of band, choir, and orchestra got this out of maybe 1000 ppl)</p>

<p>Invited to take AIME (i think i got like a 5 on this...)</p>

<p>Local Leadership program (i think it was like a 10% chance of acceptance)</p>

<p>Dang it..owell this is soo far... hopefully junior year will be better....do u guys have some suggestions...any advice.. please help me instead of saying stuff like oooo it's too early... i dun care... i pretty much had fun in my freshman year pretty much partying wit friends and had some fun in sophomore year too... now i wanna actually work. Oh and should I do NHS...or should I just like not waste my time doing NHS cause I am thinking about joining FBLA in my junior year cause a lot of ppl from my school go to state in FBLA</p>

<p>THANKS FOR READING THIS</p>

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<p>Also,</p>

<p>male, Indian (dang it)
low income: ~25k</p>

<p>Math 1710=Calc 1
Math 1720=Calc 2</p>

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<p>oh ya...ooops i actually wanna be an engineer (ignore my username plz)</p>

<p>In case u missed it... I am a rising high school junior</p>

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<p><em>thumbs up</em></p>

<p>apply</p>

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<p>thank you! any more "chances" advice or opinions?</p>

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<p>99 views and no responses?? Come on gguys!!</p>

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<p>typical/average</p>

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<p>Rice (unless they've just changed their selection process) is looking for a "well rounded" person. What does this all mean? Well, beyond the sheer numbers of applications (your's being one of the many) it's becoming much like a lottery.</p>

<p>You see all of the students applying have good grades, good SAT/ACT, are in IB or NHS and on and on, and sometimes it's just up to luck of the draw.</p>

<p>So what does a school like Rice look for beyond all that?</p>

<p>Diversity in individual, ethnicity, gender and location.</p>

<p>They try to find out about you, who you are, what you believe in, why college is important, why life is important. Some of that they find in the application you send in, but in my opinion, the two things that will tell them this are the essays and an interview with an alumni.</p>

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<p>bump (10 chr)</p>