I think I blew it...

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<p>Basic
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: African (Burundian)
School: Catholic College Prep School
Major: Anthropology
State- NJ</p>

<p>Test
ACT: 2/7
SAT- 1800/2400
AP Tests:
• Computer Science
• European History </p>

<p>Honors
• Algebra 2
• Pre-Cal
• US History II
• English </p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
• Economics
• AP Euro
• AP Computer
• Honors Pre-Cal
• English VI
• Religion VI</p>

<p>Other Stats THAT WILL KILL ME)
Rank: School does not rank, but top 50% in class. (49/114)
GPA: 3.0</p>

<p>ECs:
Erase - Erase racism on earth: 9, 10, and 11(President)
Red Cross: 11, 12 (President)
Model UN: 11, 12
Yearbook: 12 (photographer)
Soccer- 11
Swimming- 12
Cross Country-10</p>

<p>Miscellaneous/Notes</p>

<p>• play the drums in band (not a school band and also not normal for African WOMEN to do that)
• made my own computer game
• made website for recognition of war </p>

<p>I am in the mist of writing a manuscript for my book called " Help or not". It is about my research, what would people doing in different situations.</p>

<p>Volunteer- Red Cross overseas (1 month)
Community Service-100 hours</p>

<p>Essay
I will write about a Table. How the table is important to me: In Africa my family and I were in a war and so we hide underneath the table from the bombs. Now, since I am in the USA for many years, don’t know exact number... but anyways, now my parents uses it to talk about bills and how will survive for next day. </p>

<p>So the essay will be a contrast of the use of a table in two different countries and two different situations.</p>

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<p>bumpbumpbump</p>

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<p>Eh...you're story is incredibly intriguing, and you obviously have not had a typical American life, but I don't think your scores or grades(are you sure about your decile count?) are near good enough.</p>

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<p>My gpa and rank will be updated in two weeks</p>

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<p>I would not say that just a few things like GPA would completely jeopardize their decision on your admittance. You have done quite a few things that make you stand out.
good luck!</p>

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<p>what should i work on?
I am taking the ACT in FEB and -US history and Chemistry-SATII in JAN 24</p>

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<p>I think you'll be fine. Sure, maybe you're scores aren't as good as the average applicant, but I think your story will overshadow that. I was looking at the posts about Yale's Early Decision, and most people with 34 on the ACT were deferred. Like ninety percent of the accepted kids had 35's. Then I saw this girl from the middle east who was first generation with a 27. She was accepted.</p>

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<p>The fact that you are
1. black
2. female
2. out of state</p>

<p>helps you ALOT.
ps: i wasn't trying to be racist or anything.</p>

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<p>Being female no longer helps you in college admissions. The split is now roughly 60/40 in favor of girls (not at Rice, but at colleges in general), and most schools receive more female applicants than male applicants.</p>

<p>Can we just get past chances threads? We should have a gigantic rubber stamp that says "It doesn't matter; just apply" that we apply to all chances threads. If you are truly interested in a school, you should apply. You already know if it's a reach or a match, and nothing we tell you can change that. Even more perplexing are the people who post chances threads after they apply. The application is already in; we can't tell you whether you'll get in. College admissions is a huge crapshoot.</p>

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<p>The fact that you are an African-american female from out-of-state with a good story could help offset the poor statistics. It's really hard to tell, but Rice is always looking for diverse people from different backgrounds...
Good luck!</p>

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<p>your chances of getting in are about 2 percent.</p>

<p>Rice's aveage sats are waaaaaaaaay higher than yours, and even being African-American won't help you enough.
sorry, but hey you got a shot</p>

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<p>I recommend ignoring theendusputrid. He isn't an admission's officer, alum or even a student. You've applied, and now you must wait. Good luck!</p>

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<p>What if I go to Penn State for a semester and the transfer to Rice? Am I able to do that?</p>

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<p>nothing wrong with penn state.</p>

<p>they have a great football team you'll probably like it there! Plus, it will be easier to get a good gpa there probably, which will help you for grad school applications</p>

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<p>I am planning to get into rice or stanford my gpa increased to 3.5 because of the 2 more aps I cancelled ap computers it was killing me.</p>

<p>My aim for the sat is to have 700-800 on all of the sections. The only thing I see that can hurt me is the RANK!</p>

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<p>lol it is practically impossible to get into stanford.</p>

<p>below 9 percent acceptance rate. not to mention the fact that a lot of applicants are legacies/ developmental admits and recruited athletes</p>

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<p>I can't hurt to try.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/615741-i-got-into-stanford-3-4-gpa-possible.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/615741-i-got-into-stanford-3-4-gpa-possible.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Well, I think the respective universities' admissions offices will be the most qualified to answer your question - heck it is only 60+ days away to decision day. </p>

<p>Just a note here, transferring to Stanford is even harder than getting admitted as a freshman - 1.6% admissions rate.</p>

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<p>Can I transfer into rice with less than a semester of college?</p>

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<p>race64</p>

<p>from the Rice website:</p>

<p>" Students are considered transfer applicants if they have completed secondary school, have earned at least nine semester hours of college credit (three college courses), and have not been enrolled in high school for at least one year."</p>

<p>I just googled Rice University +transfer for the answer to your question. It's taken me longer to type the response than had you looked it up yourself. There were more instructions and details if you are really interested enough to read about it.</p>