<p>Accepted to Architecture as an international wowowowow :'D </p>
<p>Hey Y’all, accepted! Before I post my information could somebody quickly tell me what I need to have for Esther? I cant seem to find out what the User ID/PIN are referring to, is there a time which I received/made them? Thanks!</p>
<p>2 D’s accepted. My brother lives in Houston which is why they applied but they’ve never seen the campus. </p>
<p>andenick. i went to my gmail account and just searched ESTHER and the e-mail came up. they sent the information previously.</p>
<p>waitlisted… here and wustl, rejected at chicago, pomona, and northwestern… only accepted at ucla, im hoping for better news in the future 
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<p>Rejected
SAT I (breakdown): Did not send
ACT: 32 (34 English, 28 Math, 30 Science)
SAT II: Did not take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.956
Weighted GPA: 4.733
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/191
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), WHAP (5), English Lang (5), APHuG (4), Psych (4), Bio (3), Euro (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Microeconomics, AP US Government, Honors Physics, AP English Lit, Honors Spanish 3
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, a Resolution by the Board of Commissioners from my county commending me for winning an essay contest</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): marching band (clarinet section leader), symphonic band, Interact Club (President), Venturing (President, Vice President, Secretary), NHS
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: 150+ hours at miscellaneous places, volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club Young Engineers Program
Summer Activities: nothing noteworthy
Essays: some were average, others were great
Teacher Recommendation: One from AP Gov/Psych teacher and former mayor of the town (excellent), one from English teacher (wonderful)
Counselor Rec: I never got to look at it, but it’s probably good
Additional Rec: none
State: Florida
School Type : Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): female in engineering/STEM (if that even counts anymore)</p>
<p>Reflection: I’ve only gotten into public schools so far,
Strengths: weighted GPA, Common App essay, recommendations, extracurriculars
Weaknesses: my Rice-centric essays were weak, my math and science ACT scores weren’t high, I was unable to take calculus this year due to scheduling conflicts, no interview, didn’t send AP scores, no work experience, didn’t do much in the summer
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: my test scores weren’t high enough and I’m not a particularly interesting candidate</p>
<p>Rejected. Beginning to feel like something is inherently wrong with me as an applicant.</p>
<p>Accepted Woo! (I haven’t seen any scholarship stuff so I’m guessing I haven’t received any!)</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2220 one time (720 Math, 730 Verbal, 770 writing)
ACT: 34 (33 English Cume, 35 Math, 36 Science)
SAT II: 760 on Math 1 & 2, 730 Chem, 710 English Lit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Weighted GPA: 5.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11/331
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (4), AP World (3), English Lang (5), AP Euro (4), AP Spanish (3), AP Chem (5),
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Micro & Macro, AP US Gov, AP US Bio, Religion (All Boys Catholic School Woot!), AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, Advanced Debate, Honors Computer Applications (Required Ew)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Scholar Commended, Academic All American x3 USA Water Polo, </p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate (2 Yr President, Nationally Ranked), Water Polo (2 Yr Captain, Academic All American x3), Swimming (Captain)
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: 100 Hours Teaching Kids how to swim, 250 founding a middle school debate program, around 190 working with a debate tournament organization on random community service projects.
Summer Activities: Junior Olympics for Water Polo x3, Nationals for Debate x3, Camp for debate x2, Long term camping trips, service work.
Essays: Common app- about loving the unknown. Great quote integrated, extremely literary, about a few 18+ hikes i took and some scary things that happened. I loved it, an English teacher at my school didn’t, but I didn’t like her!
Rice specific essays- Pretty good, nothing incredibly special except I spent alot of time on why I love interacting with people (the crux of it was that my ontology was interrelational lol [[debate words]] so it sounded smart and I was pretty passionate within the essay) for the “why social science” question
Teacher Recommendation: never read them, but one from an English teacher who loved me and taught me 2 years, and one from a chem teacher who taught me 2 years. Edited by half the administration, so I really do hope they were good lol.
Counselor Rec: Qualityyyyyyyyy
Additional Rec: N/A
State: Florida
School Type : All Boys Catholic
Ethnicity: All White yo
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m a WASP that goes to an all boys private catholic school lol. My parents both went to college, I’m pretty sure I’m the opposite of a hook, or whatever. You understand me.</p>
<p>Reflection: I’m pretty happy with how this app turned out. I was rejected from Northwestern so I’m kinda sad about that, but I also did skip their interview soooooooooo 
Strengths: Interview, Essays, Scores, and Extracurriculars and maybe Rec’s
Weaknesses: Unweighted GPA, NO HOOKS, essays were a little stock, but the nuance may have made them better, and NO HOOKS AGAIN
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Scores were on point, along with a stellar interview and some cool extracurriculars meshed with nuanced stock essays.</p>
<p>Also one final question before I can hopefully give back to the website and help some of you all out, where did you find your scholarship information? i.e. the trustee distinguished scholarship? Thanks!</p>
<p>@andenick My scholarship letter was below the admission letter (with a link). It was also on Esther.</p>
<p>@andenick, it is there in awards on the financial aid through esther login also. I think there is also a link below the decision letter
<a href=“Login”>Login;
Goodluck!</p>
<p>@tarheelowl @rani9933 thanks to both of y’all, found it!</p>
<p>Did anyone else get a full tuition scholarship? I was totally not expecting this and I’m super stoked.</p>
<p>D accepted in WA state. Great news. Loved the school a perfect fit for her. </p>
<p>Did anyone else receive absolutely NO financial aid? :/</p>
<p>Of course a high income yields a sense of no “demonstrated need” but certainly $54,000/ year is a large chunk out of anyone household’s income. More of a help than a need, but still concerning. Anyone else?</p>
<p>@owlsco18
At this point my Esther says that I haven’t gotten any awards 
My parents are also paying full freight for my sister’s tuition, meaning that I should have at least a little financial aid-- calling tomorrow.</p>
<p>rejected… feels like im dumb as hell oh well… GOOD LUCK EVERYONE ELSE</p>
<p>does “no information” mean no financial aid?</p>
<p>@equestriangirl97 @owlsco18 @dragonflymusic I feel the same way you guys do, and emailed Rice’s financial people about it. I’ll post once they reply! (Assuming i’m not driven to call them before then)</p>