<p>I’m so excited to get to know people from my class! Does anyone know if there’s a FB group or page that a lot of students are on? Or is there some other way you’re meeting people in our class?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/144647412360203/[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/144647412360203/</a></p>
<p>elina- Your FA package is on Esther.</p>
<p>@ricehopkinsmom I’ll totally be going! And if attending Rice doesn’t work out, it’ll be worth it for the experience of the plane ride and a trip to Texas (never been south of NC)!</p>
<p>^ purpleacorn
Thanks
I checked and there was no tab or link to any financial aid so I’m supposing I won’t be getting any :C
I don’t know if I can go here then, sigh. Rice is my top choice college as well</p>
<p>This’ll sound bitter, but I don’t mean it that way: I truly don’t understand how elina855 got in and I didn’t.</p>
<p>@AnonDoc, Hope you got your question answered by now. The award amount is shown in the link ‘award history’ under the ‘Financial info’ tab.</p>
<p>@emberjed- Rice, like a lot of schools, isn’t looking for just somebody with perfect test scores, and there’s a lot you didn’t tell us. Yes, your 22xx score is good, but so is a 21xx-- the difference is maybe one or two questions over the course of a test. There’s a lot about an applicant that cannot be quantified in paper-- and you come from different contexts. If you go to a school where 20-30 APs are offered (I went to one such school for a while), it’ll be expected that students take a lot of APs, because they have access. If another applicant only takes 5-6 APs (and only 5-6 APs are offered), they are not penalized for not taking as many.</p>
<p>I’m truly sorry about your decision, but selective admissions are holistic, and there is really never any way. Rice is trying to craft a class, and in doing so, they turn down lots of perfectly qualified applicants (and that’s the only way to do it). I’m sure you’ll end up somewhere fantastic.</p>
<p>(And a more practical reason may be that Rice is need-aware for intl students, especially if Rice expects a particular student to be full-pay).</p>
<p>So humbled to be accepted! Honestly, some people who were rejected seem to have more impressive credentials than I did. College admissions can be so arbitrary sometimes. But I’m sure you’ll end up at the right school for you, even if it’s not what you originally expected or wanted. :)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.86
SAT: 2200
SAT IIs: Lit (720), Bio (720)
AP Bio (3)
Senior course load: AP Comp Gov, AP Lit, AP Chem, AP Calc, Yearbook (lol)
ECs: Drama club, singing, dancing, Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors
Volunteer: Founder/president of non-profit org for Korean adoptees
Awards: National History Day performance 1st Place State, National Merit Scholar
Ethnicity: Korean
Strong essays and rec letters, pretty good interview</p>
<p>Accepted. I’m actually really surprised because my stats aren’t that high compared to other applicants’. I think my essay was really unique though - I wrote about how metal music made me a more globally aware citizen.
SAT: 2010. I can’t remember my breakdown at the moment.
GPA (weighted): ~4.36<br>
APs: APUSH (5), AP language/composition (5), AP chemistry (5)
Senior year course load: AP gov, AP calc ab, AP literature, 2 art classes, economics, AP psychology. I graduated a semester early, too, so now I’m at the community college taking calculus and sociology.
Extracurriculars: started the gay-straight alliance at my school. Club varsity lacrosse for two years. NHS. Other random clubs.
I’m white but I have Hispanic origins on one side of my family. My family income is high, so Rice will probably be too expensive to attend. I’m just happy at was accepted, though :)</p>
<p>I didn’t interview or visit campus and got accepted. 1970 SAT 29 ACT 95.57 GPA</p>
<p>@emberjed
I know what you mean dude. Most people said I was a match for Rice, and I’ve also been ‘accepted’ to Cornell and Duke already, so being waitlisted was a little surprising. I would’ve probably chosen Rice over Cornell or Duke tbh but I guess not anymore</p>
<p>W GPA: ~4.41 (Top 3%)
UW GPA: 3.9
ACT: 35
APs: World Hist (5), Eng Lang (5), Env Sci (5), US Hist (5), Hum Geo (4), Euro (4), Spanish Lang (4), Calc AB (4)
Senior course load: AP Eng Lit, AP Macro, AP Gov, AP Phys B, AP Chem, AP Bio
Extracurriculars: Sole Author of U.S. Patent & Co-Author of 2 patents pending
Research Assistant for 5 years at a state university
Cello for 8 years (Orchestra 6 years - 1st Chair for 2 years (10th & 11th))
Lots of other unique ECs, manager of family business, ~1000 hours of volunteering, etc
Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>
<p>Note: Don’t write crappy essays</p>
<p>question to SAT128–why would you pick Rice over Cornell? What lead you to like Rice better? thanks</p>
<p>@stevest
A few different reasons I guess. I’m planning on pre-med, so being right next to the largest medical center in the world has plenty of solid advantages. Also, I’m from Texas and am used to reasonable weather, so Ithaca would probably be miserable for me considering how cold it gets. I also liked the smaller size and ‘tighter’ community feeling of Rice’s student body/campus</p>
<p>@emberjed, dealing with rejection is never easy for any of us. This whole college admission process is akin to a lottery as there are simply to many qualified candidates for a limited number of places. With your accomplishments you will end up a great institution and make a meaningful contribution to that place.</p>
<p>I know you didn’t mean to sound bitter in what you said, but I have to disagree with you. Elina855 sounds like a very accomplished young person in her own right and I can fully understand why the Rice Adcom offered her a place.</p>
<p>I genuinely wish you the best of luck for the remainder of this awful process and will be hoping good news comes your way soon.</p>
<p>rejected 
I am bummed. 2330 SAT 800 SATII math 730 Physics 750 BIO 33 ACT great recs blah blah blah… must have been the essay?? CMU and the Ivys next week</p>
<p>to SAT128–that was my logic also–Rice looks like a good place for premed–esp for an md/phd plan.</p>
<p>to lauwai–also waiting for CMU–CMU is a unique university re class offering re science–go look at their catalog of class offering (but enough about that–this is a Rice thread…)</p>
<p>S waitlisted 2320 SAT and not listing everything here but really great stuff otherwise on all fronts. I see a lot of familiar names here (that I recognize from other colleges’ threads that we apparently have similar applications for) … sorry to hear that so many of us are in the same boat with Rice’s decisions. Ht got Wash U, but without scholarship we are unlikely to send him there. Waiting for a few more… Congratulations to all of you with Rice admits! Rice is a fabulous school and I wish you all the best. Good luck on the rest of the news to those of us without. S not sure he wants to be on Rice’s waitlist - as much as he really likes Rice, he doesn’t seem to like the idea of more uncertainty beyond this week when the chances are so slim. I.e. even more waiting for yet another slim shot at it. It’s all felt like an eternity just to get to this point…</p>
<p>@worth2cents; purpleacorn: I guess I failed at not sounding bitter. It isn’t just the stats, though. Her accomplishments, while formidable, seemed pretty common. Her standardized test scores were a little lower, too. And she was Asian and I’m not (this does NOT mean I don’t think she deserved to get in for that, only that it would’ve made it less likely). Whatever was more desirable in her application must’ve been in the essays or the details of the extracurriculars. To be fair, while I think mine are pretty unique, some of them I’ve only been pursuing for one or two years.</p>
<p>Wow, lauwai, that’s awful. Good luck on your others.</p>
<p>@SAT128
I wish I could trade my Rice acceptance for your Duke acceptance!</p>