<p>@Antarius Thanks so much! :D.</p>
<p>Hi everyone!!! So so excited to hear back from Rice! I have been dreaming of attending since the start of my college search! </p>
<p>Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown): 2170 Math:720 Reading: 700 English: 750
•ACT (breakdown):N/A
•SAT II (place score in parentheses): Spanish- 670 Biology-670
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.57 for sophomore-junior year and 4.0 for freshman year. My school now does not simply assign me a 4.0 if I have a 90+. Instead, anything lower than a 93 is considered below 4.0 and decreases from there.
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school does not rank
•AP (place score in parentheses): Bio 4 (that’s the only score I submitted because it’s the only one that has to do with my choice of major)
•IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
•Senior Year Course Load: Honors Physics, AP Calc, AP Spanish IV, AP Microeconomics, Computer Programming, Critical Reading and Argumentation (philosophy class required by my school)
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, Student of the Year (Freshman year; awarded by faculty of my school), Top Humanities student (2 consecutive years), Top math student (Freshman year)</p>
<p>Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Student Pilot (soloed in the Summer; plan on obtaining my license by the end of the year), Triathlete, Lululemon Run club pace group leader (training for a 30k and half marathon), Founder and President of the SOHS film club
•Job/Work Experience: Homework Helper for 2 girls, SAT tutor
•Volunteer/Community Service:Teen Service League (President of a league consisting of 100+ girls), teach ESL to children in a nearby Spanish speaking community, trip to Lima, Peru to teach English to children, work at a soup kitchen, and paint a fence of a preschool
•Summer Activities: Spanish Immersion camp (4 weeks)
•Essays: Great!
•Teacher Recommendations: Great! (Bio teacher)
•Counselor Rec: Great!
•Additional Rec: N/A
•Interview: I had an AMAZING interview on campus with a Rice Senior. We talked like we had been friends for a long time.</p>
<p>Other
•State (if domestic applicant): TX
•Country (if international applicant):
•School Type: Online Private
•Ethnicity: White
•Gender: Female
•Income Bracket: 200k+
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My half sister transferred to Rice last year and is a junior there</p>
<p>Reflection
•Strengths: Essays and school situation (I transferred to Stanford OHS for a more challenging academic environment), extracurriculars
•Weaknesses: test scores and GPA</p>
<p>@NIGHTLOCK A match scholar too? WOW. Extremely proud of you. </p>
<p>Let’s keep our fingers crossed, I and the rest of the people that applied ED in hopes of attending with NIGHTLOCK next year! Good luck to all. Cheers. </p>
<p>How did everyone get their results so early?!?!?</p>
<p>@MattTheKoala I think only QuestBridge applicants have started to hear back from Rice. The rest of us ED applicants have 12 more days or so</p>
<p>Questbridge scholars are admitted through a separate process. </p>
<p>Wow I feel so stupid, but what’s QuestBridge?</p>
<p><a href=“QuestBridge - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuestBridge</a></p>
<p>This summarizes it up pretty well. Also, this is the qb page for Rice <a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/rice-overview”>http://www.questbridge.org/rice-overview</a></p>
<p>Just got my Esther link! Decision time is fast approaching! </p>
<p>@Antarius does everyone get the Esther link or do they only send it to people who made it to the final part of the decision process? </p>
<p>If I plan not to apply for financial aid, should I still activate my Esther account before admission decisions are released? </p>
<p>Yesterday, Rice contacted my guidance counselor at school and requested my progress report (current grades). Does this mean anything? (I applied ED)</p>
<p>@ucladude, I’m also an ED applicant, but here are my two cents. Did you submit your grades yet? A transcript at all when you applied? This can be done through Naviance, which I did, and probably through postal mail? Log onto your student portal for Rice and just check if your transcript and/or high school report has been sent to Rice. Rice needs to take a look at your full application and is probably just missing that section of it. No worries. </p>
<p>If you have already submitted your transcript, high school report, all the works, then no sweat. Just follow Rice’s directions and submit it again. I’m not sure if it means anything, but hopefully someone else can chime in. Good luck dude. </p>
<p>@owl2019, You do not have to completely follow my advice, but here’s what I think. I set up my ESTER account today, and regardless of you apply to fin aid or not, ESTER is still a tool to track scholarships, grants, etc - essentially all the financial aid information if you were to attend Rice. If you think ESTER may affect your application status, then hold off. I personally do not see a chance it will. </p>
<p>Again, you don’t not have to follow my advice, but hopefully I just gave you a tad bit of insight. </p>
<p>@kokko2k15 I already submitted transcripts and they have received them a long time ago. They specifically requested for a progress report for senior year.</p>
<p>@rice3579 I got the link.</p>
<p>@Kokko2k15 Thank you for your insight! </p>
<p>Ugh. So nervous. The suspense is doing a number on me. </p>
<p>@Rice3579 - Everyone should get it. That’s how you can view your tuition bill etc and I believe the status of your application.</p>
<p>@owl2019 - It is up to you. It will not impact your admission in any way</p>
<p>9 days and 23 hours! Into single digits… XD</p>