I am a current senior at a top Texas high school (if you are familiar with texas high schools and want to know where i go feel free to message me). I am applying regular decision to the school of engineering at Rice. I’m pre-med and I plan to major in bioengineering. My essays are pretty strong and I think my rec letters will be as well.
Sat: 2260 (800 CR, 730 math, 730 writing)
Act composite: 34
Class rank: 54/647
Gpa: 3.93 (UW 4.0 scale) 5.3969 (weighted 5.0 scale)
Coursework:
Started high school math, spanish, and engineering in 7th grade. In the gifted program for math and english.
-13 AP classes including calc bc, stats (taken sophomore year), spanish language, physics 1 & c, chem. I also self studied psych so I actually have 14 ap tests and 13 classes.
- all four years of the PLTW biomedical sciences program
-5 on all AP tests that I have taken so far except for a 4 on world history and a 4 on physics 1. I expect 5s on all the ap tests I will take this year except maybe a 4 on chem.
Academic awards: ap scholar, national ap scholar, ap scholar with distinction, premio de oro (level 2) and premio de plata (level 4) for the national spanish exam
Extra curriculars & volunteering:
Lacrosse
-freshman year: only underclassman on varsity. I also was on the starting line up for every game. Won most improved, academic all district awards
- sophomore year: organized a recruiting event because we were going to graduate half of our team. Won academic all district (this award is not just for one person, it’s for every player that qualifies)
Junior: team captain. Won most inspirational, academic all district, all academic all american ( a national award given by the governing body of lacrosse)
Senior: team captain, probably will get some awards but we haven’t started our season yet.
I also played on a select travel team my sophomore and junior years and my junior year i was selected to a state wide team that represented texas at the women’s national tournament.
NASA high school aerospace scholar
Worked at a neuroscience lab at UT Austin the summer before senior year. I mostly genotyped lab animals and ligated plasmids. Got to see some brain surgery on mice!
Girl scout since kindergarten, earned bronze award
Miracle league volunteer (it’s a baseball league for disabled children)
Mobile Loaves & Fishes volunteer
Elementary school science fair judge
National Honor Society member
Essay topics:
Common app essay (write about a time you failed prompt): how I used to hate math and be horrible at it but now I love it and after a lot of work i got very good at it
Rice supplement (what unique perspective do you bring to rice?): I haven’t written it yet and I’m not totally set on a topic, but I think I will be writing about the group of 5 novels that I have been working on for more than 5 years. (they’re not a series, they’re just sort of connected) My writing is something that I am very passionate about and it has really influenced who I am as a person.
I will also be applying to the rice-baylor medical scholars program. I don’t know much about many schools but I can chance back for texas a&m and ut.
Also, should I apply early decision?
Sorry for the weird capitalization of stuff I wrote this on my phone. Thanks for any input! 