Rice ED?? freaking out =(

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>sorry I'm a newbie at this, just trying to follow the format I've observed-</p>

<p>GPA: weighted 4.59, 5.0 scale- don't know unweighted
Rank: 51/750, 7th percentile
SAT(old) - 800 Verbal, 760 Math
SAT(new) - 800 Verbal, 800 Math, 750 Writing
SATII - 720 World History, 800 Writing, 800 Biology-E, 800 Math IIC
ACT(without writing)- 36 composite (35 math section)
I didn't send the ACT score because Rice doesn't accept the old ACT without writing.. but I did put it in my app.. see "other factors" at the bottom as well.
PSAT: 240 (question: will colleges see this and/or consider it in my app?)</p>

<p>Grades: Mostly low to mid-range A's and high B's, exception of one high C in second semester pre-AP Chemistry sophomore year and a couple of very high A's in some honors classes.</p>

<p>AP Courses taken:
Four years of core courses (math, english, social studies, science etc) all AP; all electives have been AP except for track.</p>

<p>Senior classes: AP Music Theory, AP Compsci AB, AP Calc BC, IB Chinese 5, AP English 4, AP Govt/Macroeconomics, Debate 3 Honors, track&field
all solid A's so far, midyear report should be better than my jr. year grades</p>

<p>APs Taken:
World History (5), Biology (5), Physics (3), US History (5), English Lang(5)</p>

<p>Extracurrics / Community Service:
NHS (12) -- tutoring/community service projects
Science Connection <a href="11,12">science-related club</a> -- tutoring bio, journal editor, tutoring head
TAKS tutoring (12) -- basically I sacrifice a class period to tutor freshmen and sophomores who need help with math & passing the texas standardized test
[i do a LOT of tutoring]
Buddhist Club (12) -- secretary
Freshman Mentor (12)
Debate (10,11,12) -- Varsity all 3 years
Piano -- since 6 yrs old
Swim team (8-12) -- outside of school
Track & Field (10,11,12) -- varsity 11th & 12th</p>

<p>there's other stuff but that's the main gist of it.</p>

<p>Awards:
National Merit Semi-finalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
various debate awards
2 at State in piano solo</p>

<p>Other factors to consider:
-I'm an asian-american girl.. half white/half asian which did play into the essay about cultural perspectives quite a bit.
-prospective Biology major in lieu of pre-med
-OK essay, great interview, one OK recommendation (i think) and one good one from the director of a summer program at Oxford University I went to
-I'm from Houston and, in fact, live about 5 minutes from Rice: + or -? I've also been in the newspaper for my ACT and PSAT scores a couple times recently, would the admissions officers have seen this and would it help in my app for name recognition and such?
-I have partial legacy.. my dad went there for grad school majoring in space physics but dropped out after a year to start his own business. </p>

<p>Personally I think Rice is a bit of a stretch for me with my grades but I want to hear what you guys think. Thankyousomuch =)</p>

<p>Other colleges I'm applying to:
Bates, Wash U. in St. Louis, UPenn, Williams, Columbia, Princeton, Univ. of Texas @ Austin</p>

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<p>Your rank isn't the greatest, but your standarized testing scores surely make up for it. (You were only a NMS semi-finalist?!)</p>

<p>I'd say you are in. :)</p>

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<p>well i get notified about whether or not I have finalist standing in february or so.. so i guess i should have put "so far".. haha, hopefully.</p>

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<p>Congrats on the test scores! I also think that you're in.</p>

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<p>You have a better chance than I do. Did you apply to the school of Natural Science?</p>

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<p>oops, i forgot to mention that- yes i did.</p>

<p>also, I'm 2 years young for my grade: i'm 16 right now and a senior- will that have any bearing? I know I was rejected from a private school i applied to because they wanted everyone to be the same age.</p>

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<p>man, how are you not number 1? yeah u'll definitely get in or i die.</p>

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<p>You're way above the cut line. Unless you can't write at all, I'm pretty sure you're in.</p>

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<p>lol maybe i'm just paranoid > < well, we'll see after this weekend.</p>

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<p>If you applied ED, your position is even better.</p>

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<p>looks like wrxstiav dies =p
i was denied.. guess GPA/grades counted for a whole lot more than I thought they did.. or maybe my essay just sucked horribly and I didn't know it?
sigh I'm kind of confused.. esp cause it was my dream school and all.. it really hurts but i'll live.</p>

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<p>Jesus. Maybe you're right, sometimes scores aren't everything.</p>

<p>But you should of at least been deferred.</p>

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<p>Woah...you were rejected outright?</p>

<p>Interesting....</p>

<p>I guess the good old GPA counts for more than I thought it did.</p>

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<p>Wow denied?
thats odd
sorry to hear</p>

<p>where else are you aplying?
I'm also from houston (=</p>

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<p>hahah that seems to be everyone's reaction.. "that's quite odd.." i was personally pretty surprised cause everyone i'd talked to said i was fine.
oh and correction my gpa is 4.59 on a 4.0 scale not a 5.0 scale, around maybe 4.7 or so unweighted</p>

<p>Bates, Wash U. in St. Louis, UPenn, Williams, Columbia, Princeton, Univ. of Texas @ Austin
(i think all reaches except for UT now, based on this decision.. rrgh)</p>