<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I'm a high school Junior at a college prep school, with the majority of my classes being honors or AP. My weighted GPA at the beginning of my senior year will hopefully be around a 3.8 and unweighted around a 3.5. I just took the ACT for the first time and my composite score was a 32. I'm taking it again in June and hoping to score around a 34. I've been voted onto student council this year and also for next year as well. I'm on varsity tennis in the spring time and manage lacrosse during the fall season. In the summer time I volunteer at my local children's hospital and work as a tennis instructor, with both those things adding up to around 40 hours a week. I'm also in National Honors Society and am head editor of my school yearbook, along with being a section editor of my school newspaper. </p>
<p>I realize my GPA is not as high as it should be but I'm dyslexic and had a major problem with foreign language. It dropped my weighted GPA from a 4.1 to a 3.8 to give a general idea of the unfortunate circumstance of my foreign language studies. </p>
<p>Basically I'm starting this thread to ask if there is any chance what I have made of my high school career would be good enough to get me into Rice University. Also would applying early decision help my chances of getting in?</p>
<p>Other schools I'm planning on applying to are:
University of Richmond
College of the Holy Cross
University of Denver</p>