<p>Hey guys. Im a senior applying Early Decision into the engineering school. want to major in Bioengineering and ten go onto med school. Im from Houston, a male, and white which might be some disadvantages for me but Rice has been my dream school since I was little so hopefully I can make that shine through in my interview and supplement.</p>
<p>Rank: 1/667 at a public school
Unweighted GPA 4.00/4.00
Weighted GPA 5.52/6.00</p>
<p>ACT score - 34 </p>
<p>AP scores so far</p>
<p>APUSH(5)
English Language(4)
Psychology(4)
Music Theory(3)</p>
<p>Course Load Senior Year
AP Biology
AP U.S. Government
AP Macroeconomics
AP Statistics
Wind Symphony
AP Calculus AB( no BC at school unfortunately)
AP English Literature
Academic Decathlon</p>
<p>EC's and Awards
-Marching Band and Top band all four years( made region and area band good shot at all-state this year) Brass section Leader(Junior year) and Band Captain(equivalent to President Senior year)
- I play Euphonium and Trombone( Top awards on solos all four years on both instruments)
-Eagle Scout
-Academic Decathlon Team Junior and Senior year( 2nd place awards at regionals in Music, Math, and Speech)
-Won with my team 3rd Place at the Youth About Business National Championships( strategic Merger and Acquisition competition)
-National Honor Society(Senior Vice President)
-Spanish honor Society
-National Society of High School Scholars
-Texas Music Scholar</p>
<p>Volunteer
-Usher at Church very week
-Run bingo at a retirement community once a month
-Taught First Aid to younger boy scouts at camp
-In charge of running the Solo and Ensemble competition for the region at my school
-Clean the area on my schools street once a month
-Played trombone at a charity concert(Pure Water Project)</p>
<p>Work Experience
-A competitive Internship( only 10 people were chosen) at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston where I worked in the Gastroenterology department alongside researchers and was able to do my own project where I found a solution to help the motility of a burn patients digestive system in a cheap and easy way for third world countries to utilize it.
-I gave a HUGE presentation of my project to the staff of the medical school along with a Q&A session. </p>
<p>Essays and Recs
- my essays will be good( about my experience at my internship along with the cultural lessons learned from working with Chinese and Egyptian colleagues)
- will have good recs from my band director, math teacher, academic decathlon and former English teacher, and my mentor at my internship</p>
<p>Please give me your honest opinion and any recommendations on how to better improve my chances at acceptance.</p>
I would suggest you pick a focus for all your ECs on your app, so it doesn’t just look like a laundry list of a million things…</p>