<p>A wonder if they find an Asian girl who has lived in America all her life and is extremely interested in Asian studies/language/culture and wants to go to China/Japan or any other Asian country on a program from Rice and teach English as somewhat interesting. Whoa, runon sentence.</p>
<p>If it's articulated well in your essays and EC's as being a strong passion, then certainly. Hopefully, you sent a recommendation from an English teacher (or whomever) who can speak about that.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (Engineering)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2230 (800M 790V 740W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 IIC, 740 Biology-M
[<em>] GPA: 4.00/4.57
[</em>] Rank: 3/319
[li] Other stats: AP Biology 5, AP English Language 4, AP Spanish Language 4</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Goood.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent (Math/English/Employer)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty good?
[</em>] Hook (if any): Six-week Medical Internship in China...?</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female</p>
<p>[/ul]Extracurriculars: Color Guard, Gymnastics, Key Club, Ambassadors (leadership program at my high school), Mock Trial, Swimming</p>
<p>General Comments: off to the R/B application. no scholarship which was kind of disappointing because im not sure if private schools are even an option without MAJOR financial aid. but yay anyways :) congrats to those who got in for those who were deferred, DONT GIVE UP! and for those we were denied, don't let it get you down because youll definitely have a blast no matter where you go.</p>
<p>Although I know there are more factors than I can imagine in a college decision, it couldn't have helped to be asian male...:( Oh well, at least they gave me a chance in RD. Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>gosh...you people give the sats so much importance. if you get denied dont take it personal. its not just meant to be. also, deferred people dont give up hope because you might still get in. about the guy who has the daughter that didnt get in:
colleges cannot accept all the applications that they receive which means that they are forced to reject/deferr some qualified applicants. Also, Rice has a little bit of a different approach, they are just not looking for the intelligent person with all the extracurriculars. they are looking for something that sets them out from everybody else that is why the interview is so important. for my acceptance i think the interview allowed me to express how much i wanted to go to rice. dont take things personal just because somebody makes a comment even thought it might seem a little tactless. nobody is trying to appear as an eletist and if somebody is they wont fit in at rice. When i was there this last weekend for the Rice vison, i realized that even though there might be people with alot of money present in the classes i was observing i couldnt tell their status by the way they dressed. something i could at yale and princeton, which is a very cool thing because it is an environment of equity. everybody is the same and acts the same. no elitist there for sure man. even the proffesors dressed pretty casual although some didnt.</p>
<p>decision- admit to architecture
reaction- shock</p>
<p>jenna/17/female/MA/religiously and politically unaffiliated :)</p>
<p>the 'school
- massachusetts/small town-ey
- private/competitive/hippie/anti-the-system(see stats)/grade 7-12/total population=about 200 kids and 50 faculty
- we're mainly good at writing and science fairs :)</p>
<p>the stats
- 730/math, 740/verbal, 740/writing
- 720/chem, 690/math1, 670/french, 650/bio, 550/us.history(ahh!)
- gpa: we dont do gpa's
- rank: the only rank we have is the way the guy's locker room smells in lacrosse season
- ap: good guess, we dont do the whole ap thing. but i took chem anyway (4)</p>
<p>other stuff?
- interview with architecture prof on campus... SAVED ME! (im good at selling)
- essays were mediocre compared to my classmates but other people thought it was good
- counselor recs... im thinking pretty good?
- hook - chocolate! from a small-business food-family where essential skills are cake decorating and other "fine confectioner tricks o' the trade"
- portfolio - all right... you can see it if you want <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/35257872@N00/sets/72057594076566567/show/%5B/url%5D">http://flickr.com/photos/35257872@N00/sets/72057594076566567/show/</a>
- the box! = space shot of part of the globe, a plane flying around it and "travel" written down the side
- ec's =
sports...lotttts of soccer, also lacrosse, basketball, snowboarding
activities...student council alot, taught chocolate elective, photo and drawing mostly on my own, theater, working at the chocolate shop, some volunteering but not major
cant really think of anything else</p>
<p>ps. no merit money unfortunately</p>