@dsi411 HEY!!
@Cece0499 Hi!
Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2310 (800 M, 770 W, 740 R)
ACT (breakdown): 35 (36 M, 35 R, 35 E, 34 S)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Chemistry, 770 Bio M
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.88 (out of 5)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/480
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s: Calc BC, English Lang/Comp, World History, Macroeconomics. 4s: Biology, Chemistry, Physics 1, Human Geography, US History, US Government
IB (place score in parenthesis): None
Senior Year Course Load: 3-D Modeling/Animation (lol), AP Statistics, AP Physics C, Academic Decathlon, AP English Lit/Comp, AP Spanish Lang/Culture, Speech & Debate, Varsity Tennis
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar, National AP Scholar, Academic Decathlon State Qualifier, Nominated for “Best Advocate” @ Mock Trial State
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Tennis (Team Captain), Mock Trial (Lead Attorney), Student Body Treasurer, Academic Octathlon/Decathlon Honors Student, Science Bowl, UIL NS/Math/Science, Indoor Club Soccer
Job/Work Experience: Research Internship at the Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute, programmed images for a functional MRI simulator through MATLAB
Volunteer/Community service: United Way Youth Division Volunteer (~20+ hours per school year), 2 years of NHS (~8 hours per semester)
Summer Activities: Research Internship (2016), BU High School Honors Program (2015)
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common app: Described my passion for sports, 8/10
Rice essays: somewhat generic, but passionately worded. 7/10
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: English teacher, knew me and my siblings very well. 9/10
Teacher Rec #2: Math teacher, very stressed out all the time, but appreciated my ingenuity. 7/10
Interview: Lasted two hours, I knew his daughter from city-wide competitions and we got along great. 10/10
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Something in Wiess School of Natural Sciences
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Bengali (essentially Indian lol)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 150,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection
Strengths: Leadership, demonstrated interest in science, well-roundedness
Weaknesses: Essays
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: High level of demonstrated interest (campus tours, interviews, multiple application updates second semester) plus Rice loves Texas kids
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to UT Austin NaturSci Honors (Polymathic), Rejected by Stanford/MIT, everywhere else pending
General Comments: So excited about this! Most likely Rice 2021 for me, almost ready to declare.
Hi,
I’ve already gotten a one time link from Rice to “reset/set” my PIN for the Esther account. However, no matter which browser I try, every time I get this
ORA-20100: ::Cannot find record using primary or unique key.::
Unable to reset pin.
Do you guys have this problem too?
I really want to set up my account so that I can check my scholarships.
Why don’t we have an official results thread?
@WAITINGSOUL you should make one so we can post in it 
Choose One:
Decision: Accepted
Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown): 1460
•ACT (breakdown): NA
•SAT II (place score in parentheses): Biology (770) Math 2 (650) I guess I choked?
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/113
•AP (place score in parentheses): NA
•IB (place score in parentheses): NA
•Senior Year Course Load: Part-time Job, 3 college courses
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
State Universal Interscholastic League Poetry Interpretation
General Mathematics
State Policy Debate
Runner Up American Legion Oratorical State Contest
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): 80 hours per summer
•Job/Work Experience:Library Assistant & Waitress
•Volunteer/Community Service: +100 hours per year
•Summer Activities:
Missions & Ministry in New Mexico
Government & Debate Camps
•Essays: Super Creative
•Teacher Recommendations: Good
•Counselor Rec:Yes, decent
•Additional Rec:Yes, decent
•Interview: Yes
Other
•State (if domestic applicant): Texas
•Country (if international applicant):
•School Type: Rural
•Ethnicity: African
•Gender: Female
•Income Bracket: EFC is 83000
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Nigerian-American
Reflection
•Strengths:
Creative and showed great demonstrated interest
•Weaknesses:
small town life and education
•Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
My essays were extremely creative, some in verse and I made sure to do all that I can in an entertaining/story format.
•Where else you are applying or have already applied:
UT Austin (accepted)
Baylor (accepted)
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight:
SHOW don’t tell.
Decision: Accepted!!!
Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown): 2310 (800 R, 770 W, 740 M) superscore (didn’t send in)
•ACT (breakdown): 35 Composite (35 E, 36 M, 36 R, 32 S, 29 W, 33 ELA, 34 STEM)
•SAT II (place score in parentheses): 800 Math II, 750 Chem
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/820ish
•AP (place score in parentheses): 5 HumanGeo, 4 Spanish IV, 5 Spanish V, 5 US History, 4 Music Theory, 4 Chem, 5 English Lang, 5 World History
•IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
•Senior Year Course Load: English Lit, Phsyics II, US Gov, MacroEco, Calc BC, Spanish VI, Physics C: E&M and Mechanics, Bio, all AP except Spanish VI
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing major really- national hispanic scholar, AP awards, semifinalist for Coolidge scholars
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): HOSA (4 yrs, President, VP, Treasurer/Parliamentarian), Spanish Club (4 yrs, President, Historian), Chem Club (2 yrs, President), Key Club (4 yrs), NHS (2 yrs), Science UIL (3 yrs), Science Olympiad (1 yr), Piano (~8 yrs)
•Job/Work Experience: None
•Volunteer/Community Service: Around 350 hours, mostly through key club and HOSA
•Summer Activities: Hospital Junior Volunteer, WE Program at A&M, Welch Summer Scholars (Research), MOSTEC (Online MIT STEM Program)
•Essays: hard to tell because I wrote them all the week before the deadline (made for one stressful Christmas), my parents loved them though lol
•Teacher Recommendations: Teacher 1: 8, Has taught me for two years and is the sponsor of one of the clubs I’m president of
Teacher 2: 9, Taught me one year, but is the sponsor of another club I’ve been in for 4 yrs, knows me very well
•Counselor Rec: 6, I went to see her a lot last year so she knew who I was at least
•Additional Rec: Nope
•Interview: Was quite rushed because it was during SOAR and they were trying to get a lot of people through, but overall was decent
Other
•State (if domestic applicant): TX
•Country (if international applicant):
•School Type: Large Public, Competitive
•Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican)
•Gender: F
•Income Bracket: around 150k
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, My cousin-in-law once removed went there? I heard that coming from TX is actually a drawback
Reflection
•Strengths: Demonstrated strong interest in Rice through SOAR and other programs I did there, strong academic record, and nice activities over the summer
•Weaknesses: My extracurriculars were pretty generic I feel
•Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I was an overall strong applicant, female minority in engineering perhaps
•Where else you are applying or have already applied:
Accepted: MIT, CalTech, Princeton, Duke, UT (Into honors biomedical engineering school), Texas A&M, Columbia
Waitlisted: None!
Denied: Harvard (probably not the best for studying engineering anyway though)
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight:
-No place for the box?
I put a collage of what I did over the summer
-Was also offered the Distinguished Trustee Scholarship (merit-based)
-I wasn’t going to do one of these, but I remember how much I read them sophomore and junior year
-Word of advice: don’t wait until the last minute to write your essays! You’ll be hating yourself and pulling your hair out over winter break
<:-P
-Congrats to all who got in, and for those who didn’t, Rice certainly missed out!
Why can I not log into my ESTHER account?!! I never set up my account and I don’t have a pin. When/where were we supposed to have received our pin? Is there any way I can get to it before I can call them on Monday?
you can email them and you’ll get one!
Accepted
ACT (breakdown): E:35 R:36 S:33 M:32 Writing:23 Composite:34
ACT superscore (breakdown): 35 (Although Rice says they don’t superscore but you have to send in all tests)
SAT II (subject, score): Didn’t take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4
Weighted GPA: 4.41
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/400
AP (place score in parentheses): Environmental Science (5), Human Geo (5), Bio (4), Psychology(5), European History(5), US History (4), Lang (4), Physics 1 (3), Chemistry (4)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics 2, AP Lit, AP Calc AB, AP US Gov, AP Micro Econ, honor band, Spanish IV self study, teacher aid
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): All State in Speech and Debate?
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National AP scholar, various local debate awards, marching band did well at state, student of the month kind of things
Subjective
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Marching band (4 years, section leader), Debate (4 years, captain), Interact (3 years, secretary), Earth Club (3 years, secretary), Model UN (3 years, founder), on the board of directors of three nonprofits.
Job/Work Experience: Nope
Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteering at a math and science center, community outreach through nonprofit work/clubs
Summer Experience: band camp, debate camp (one year at George Mason and one year at Berkeley), math and science center, did a Computer Science MOOC with Stanford
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: 9. Wrote about living in a small area forcing me to be more confident in my sexuality
Teacher Recommendation #1: 9. Great teacher who I’ve had for two years
Teacher Recommendation #2: 8.
Counselor Rec: 10. Really, really nice letter
Additional Info/Rec: 8. Person I was on a board with
Interview: 8. It was with a nice guy who was interviewing someone for the first time ever
Art Supplement: hahahaha no. My box was a picture of a solar lamp though. It has to do with a nonprofit I talked about in my essays.
Other
Date Submitted App: Early December
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Colorado
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket Range: <150k
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): queer stuff I talked about in common app essay? And I visited campus twice
Reflection
Strengths: strong course work and diverse extracurriculars with lots of involvement
Weaknesses: My ACT writing score is shockingly low and my AP scores could have been better.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I will fit in well with the Rice community
What would you have done differently?: Nothing
Where else did you apply? Accepted: CU Boulder, University of Denver, UCLA, Berkeley Waitlisted: UChicago, Northwestern
Hi guys. Anyone else accepted through Questbridge?
Hey guys! On my ESTHER portal, it still says that “No award information is available for you at this time, please contact the Office of Financial Aid if you have questions. Below is a summary of important key factors that can affect awards…” Does that mean that I didn’t receive any financial aid or merit scholarships? I’m just wondering because I haven’t even received information about loans or payment plans or anything yet.
Accepted
Stats:
SAT (old version): 2240
CR: 800 W: 730 M: 710
superscored: 2260
ACT: 34
SAT Bio M: 740
SAT Math Level 2: 750
SAT World History: 770
National merit commended scholar
Rank: top 1%
AP: WHAP, HGAP, APUSH, Physics 1, Biology, English lit, English lang, Calculus BC, Stats, Art 2D design, Art Drawing portfolio, IB Visual Arts, European history, Macroeconomics
Extracurricular: Many regional and state awards for art
Lots of volunteering and some experience shadowing a doctor and a summer job
What should I write in my LOCI if I have no significant improvement in my honors and etc, Please help, I am desperate!!! I didn’t apply to any safety school, so this is my last chance.
@futureleader14 Your list was too risky to put it mildly. However, you will get another shot at applying to schools that have spots left. After May 1 there will be list of such schools published by National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in its annual “College Openings Update”. Look out for that list.
The NACAC list is out. @futureleader14 There are some good colleges with space.
ugh someone please make me feel better about that Rice composition exam. I mean, I think it was one of the worst essays I’ve ever written. How hard do they make it to pass it??? :-<
@stressed2k17 Don’t worry about it too much - the composition exam is mostly looking to see if you can cite sources, structure an essay, and use proper grammar. They’re not looking for a brilliant literary composition, just a knowledge of writing-skills basics, so your odds of passing are pretty high. I know some people who aren’t great writers and still passed. That being said, I know some people who didn’t take it when they were freshmen and were therefore placed in FWIS 100, and from what they’ve said, that class was actually really helpful! I know it feels like your first test at Rice, but it’s really pretty win-win in that you either go straight to a higher-level FWIS or you get an extra class that helps you out with your writing skills, so don’t feel bad if you end up taking FWIS 100 - nobody thinks worse of you for it, and it’s more likely to help you than anything. That being said, if you took the test and followed directions, I think there’s a good chance that you passed.
How much will it hurt me if I forgot to cite my sources on the writing exam? I hit submit and then realized my mistake