<p>I meant to say probably. I still want to leave all my options open. Also, if they accept me off the waitlist and I turn it down it will open up another spot anyway.</p>
<p>rejected...boo. oh well.</p>
<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: n/a
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 bio 760 math ic 740 math iic
[<em>] GPA: 3.975 uw 4.625 w
[</em>] Rank: 5/343
[<em>] Other stats: ACT 32
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: ok
[<em>] Teacher Recs: ok
[</em>] Counselor Rec: ok
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: WI
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments:YAYYYY</p>
<p>having been on nerves as I got rejected from
both cornell and duke
also... today from Northwestern</p>
<p>STATS
Asian (Korean) Male , International
Korean Highschool</p>
<p>GPA Unweighted - 3.91</p>
<p>SAT
V690
M800
W660</p>
<p>SAT2
WH760
M2c800
PHY710</p>
<p>No APs and IBs</p>
<p>I believe that since our school is such a small boarding school, teachers would have written me excellent recomms...
Essay was about my perception to world, explaining with scientific terms to reach a conclusion that I have learnt not to give up standards around me.</p>
<p>ECs are
Basketball team (school official)
School senior advisor council
State delegate for conference at Russia
Korea delegate for Cathay Pacific Wilderness Experience
Habitat for Humanity Volunteer
Work experience
Several English contests with scholarships
Music producing skills (several performances made) - I filled the box with this</p>
<p>I didn't really expect admission from Rice!!!!
Class of 2011! Nice to meet you! See you at Houston!</p>
<p>can some more people that got accepted post their stats?
thanks.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 760 Math, 730 CR, 650 Writing
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 World History, 760 US History, 640 Math 2C
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.83 Unweighted
[<em>] Rank: Top 10%
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] APs (including this year's): 8
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 3
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar, AP Scholar, various piano awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Great! lots of leadership roles including student body vice president, etc...
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Ok
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ok
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): none
[<em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): not really any hook...
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: WA
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, Sends a few to top 25 schools every year
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I actually was surprised that I was accepted lol
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>Rice is a great school and they are sure to give great financial aid (I haven't received my package in the mail yet). But it's a tossup between Rice and Johns Hopkins :]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 800CR, 780W, 780M
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 800 Lit, 800 Phys, 800 Chem, 800 Bio E
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: Different System: ISC/ICSE. (Indian): ICSE (grade 10): 96.6%, ISC (12): Predicted: 97-98% :)
[<em>] Rank:1/2 of 70
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] APs (including this year's): N/A (Doing Lang, Phys C, Calc BC, Chem, Bio through self study)
[</em>] IBs (including this year's): N/A
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: ISC: English, Physics, Math, Chem, Bio, Environmental Science
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 2
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Ref: Stats Profile
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Debate, Quizzing, Creative Writing, Math/Science, School Government etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Great.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Brilliant
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Brilliant
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location):N/A
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.):None, specifically. (Engineer who's also a debater and quizzer? Twin? :))
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Dubai, UAE. (Indian National)
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):N/A
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian (Indian)
[</em>] Gender:Male
[<em>] Income Bracket:
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):None
[<em>] Strengths:Twin? Generally strong app.
[</em>] Weaknesses: (International?)
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: [/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:Congrats to all Accepted, Good wishes to those waitlisted, commiserations to those rejected.</p>
<p>For me it's a toss up between Rice, Penn, Duke and Berkeley (Regents). Oh and toss in Northwestern. All for Engineering, with possible double degrees. </p>
<p>Convince me, people! :)</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: CR: 650 M: 800 W: 670
SAT IIs: Math II: 780 Physics: 760 US History: 720
GPA: 3.75 uw school doesn't weight grades
Rank: 100/940
Other stats: ACT 31
Subjective:
Essays: ok
Teacher Recs: Didn't see but probably pretty good
Counselor Rec: same with Teacher rec, I'm sure it was good though
Hook (if any): I'm thinking about majoring in astrophysics-they probably don't get a lot of those
Location/Person:
State or Country: Indiana
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Mexican American
Gender: Male
Other Factors: -National Hispanic Scholar Finalist. I have taken a lot of AP classes (10), would have had a good weighted GPA. I played football and run track-probably won't do either next year.
General Comments: Excited about getting in an hopefully will be at Rice next year, just have to wait for the financial package.</p>
<p>GO FOR RICE!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Great international food, warm weather, residential colleges...what's not to like?</p>
<p>if you're waitlisted, when do you find out if you're in?</p>
<p>And to add to that, we've both (Shrivats and I) been awarded Lovett scholarships! :)</p>
<p>Wow, k_twin! Congratulations to you and your brother!!!</p>
<p>Thanks! :D (This definitely pushes Rice to the top of our list :))</p>
<p>Please attend. I love twins.
We'd be good friends.</p>
<p>Just got the financial package--Trustee Distinguished Scholarship!!-well Rice is looking really good right now and good luck to those who are waitlisted.</p>
<p>Engineering full-tuition scholarship.
Wh- what.
No, like, seriously, Rice. What. I mean, it has my name on it. And it has my major on it. And it was in my folder. So I can kind of infer that it was meant for me.
But WHY, Rice, WHY?</p>
<p>Oh and I can't come to Owls Weekend because of prior reservations. SCORE.</p>
<p>Just when I thought life was easy. :C</p>
<p>I see that you would not like to go to Rice.</p>
<p>Can I ask where you'd like to go?</p>
<p>Haha, not so much that, but... I applied to Rice mostly for the scholarships back when I had no idea what I wanted, and frankly didn't know much about Rice. (I'm in that ever-so-popular income bracket that gets little to no aid but can't afford a private school anyway, so merit scholarships were the way to go for me). I knew it was an amazing school, and that it had AMAZING engineering/science programs, and some articles I've seen on stuff going on there, but... not a whole lot by any stretch of the word. Even right after sending in my app, I knew the best I could hope for was maybe a couple of thousand in merit scholarships, maybe some minor aid - obviously, there would be far more qualified applicants getting the few really amazing scholarships. I mean, I have good SATs, a pretty solid GPA, rigorous schedule/college classes (I'm like rank 3/325, though), and some ECs that, y'know, aren't made up but... I'm very far from spectacular. I might qualify for some of the more mediocre classifications of awesome, but that's about it. I remember rather doubting that my supplement essay even makes sense, much less fit the prompt.
As I waited for Rice's packet to come in with FA/scholarship info, I was fully expecting to get nothing. And that was cool with me, because I knew where I'd be going next year, and they give full tuition scholarships to all their students. : ) I just wanted to get the packet so I could start turning schools down and send in my deposit there.
It was a real shock. I read the right side of the folder. Accepted. Okay. The internet told me as much. Read the left side of the folder. Six figure dollar amount. Double take. Read again. Check name. Check address. Read again.
Pinch self. Wonder if I have somehow been transported into alternate universe. Read again.
TOTALLY not what I expected to find when I came home from school today.</p>
<p>Not that I'm disappointed or something - I am EXTREMELY flattered - but I thought I had already decided everything and knew exactly where I wanted to go. Olin College of Engineering. Rice, for the past 2 weeks, has stuck out in my mind simply as the last decision to come in. (Not trying to do a disservice to Rice: I know it's an absolutely FANTASTIC school, but I just thought I had everything figured out already).
I almost feel like I'm robbing someone of $120 000 that they, I'm sure, deserved more than me.</p>
<p>And for the Owls Weekend thing, I'll still be making every effort to visit/check out/etc. Rice, just apparently at a slightly different time. :/
Sorry for the negative tone of that; but I'm just in serious shock. And pretty concerned for the booking issues/etc.</p>
<p>Edit: Wow, my college essays were shorter. Sorry guys. :]</p>