<p>How do you get an Esther account to check on financial aid and scholarships?</p>
<p>I have no idea how to find the cost of attendance. All I see is the grant and TD scholarship.</p>
<p>So is the scholarship info available on the admissions portal, and if so, where? Or do you have to log into ESTHER?</p>
<p>How do you check for decision</p>
<p>I’m having trouble logging onto Esther/finding my student ID. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>@Mlolo98
Here you go!
ACT: 35
SAT: 2220
Rank: 4/412
GPA: 4.0/4.7
EC’s: pretty standard, leadership in debate, orchestra, nhs, 200+ volunteer hours, job at the nuclear science museum, etc.</p>
<p>@koalathebear - student id was sent in an email asking you to create Esther account. You need to contact <a href=“mailto:finaid@rice.edu”>finaid@rice.edu</a></p>
<p>My Esther is telling me that I don’t have any aid… O.O</p>
<p>SAT 2220
AC 32
AP’s: Chemistry, Calc AB, US Hist, Human Geo, Math 2 — al 5’s
Ranked 11 out of 779 seniors
EC’s were mostly his swimming years </p>
<p>It looks like my son got a separate email on January 27 from the financial aid office. There was a link and a student ID listed there. It’s from <a href=“mailto:fina@rice.edu”>fina@rice.edu</a>.</p>
<p>Also, help! for those accepted, where is the major indicated?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how enrollment was for the class of 2017? If they over enrolled or hit their target? Just wondering because over enrollment would make it more likely that they’d use their waitlist this year. Otherwise I’m not going to bother because I doubt I’d get enough aid to attend anyway, even though Rice is one of my top choices.</p>
<p>Mine is too, which I know is wrong because I am definitely veeery needy.</p>
<p>@Mlolo98 Give me a sec to calm myself, it’s a quarter past 4 in the morning here in Delhi 
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<p>@heptagirl - look at C2 for waitlist …
<a href=“http://www.oir.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/Office_of_Institutional_Research/Content/Common_Data_Set/CDS_2012-2013%20Short%20CDS.pdf”>http://www.oir.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/Office_of_Institutional_Research/Content/Common_Data_Set/CDS_2012-2013%20Short%20CDS.pdf</a></p>
<p>Rejected. Not even a waitlist. I’m pretty sure I’m still in shock, but I still feel like a complete failure. Congrats to everyone who got accepted! 
Rice is a very special place (I have so many memories there since my brother attended) and I hope that(if you decide to attend) the next 4 years are amazing!</p>
<p>@stanfordmania - time to change name to ricemania given the 86k</p>
<p>What do click after login</p>
<p>@ivytired word. </p>
<p>Decision:Wait listed</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):N/A
[</em>] ACT: 34 (E 35 M34 R34 S34)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted):730 Physics 750 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):No AP courses taken
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): IB predicted 40/42
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Physics, Chemistry, Biology IB II HL; Mathematics, English Language, French B IB II SL
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Award from Government of India for academic excellence
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Founder of 1 club, Varsity tennis, tabla, Equestrian Club,MUN,quiz team, and some others I don’t remember
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:120 hours approx
[<em>] Essays: The Commonapp essay was about my move to India and how it changed me as a person; my essay about one extracurricular activity was about my experiences in the equestrian club; the picture I attached was a picture of my pet Yellow Labrador; in the community essay, I wrote about my sense of belonging in an Indian community that has only 21000 belonging to it.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should be good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Should be average because she doesn’t know me too personally
[</em>] Additional Rec:None
[<em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[<em>] Intended Major: Biochemistry
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):N/A
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): US citizen applying from India
[</em>] School Type: small private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian, Indian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Enough to not require financial aid
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Absolutely zilch
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: scores, grades, maybe essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: race, applying from abroad, strength of the applicant pool
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was waitlisted possibly because of being Asian and not standing out among the hundreds of other Asian applicants who have better applications than me[/li][/ul]General Comments: My second wait list.</p>
<p>Does anyone have some tips for future applicants? :)</p>