rice merit scholarships

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rice University
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<p>if you got a merit scholarship, could you please post what scholarship you got, how much dough you received, and your stats?</p>

<p>jw, thanks</p>

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<p>Trustee (16k)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: CR:660 M:750 W:770

  • SAT IIs: M2:740 CHEM:740 USH:750 PHYS:730
  • ACT:
  • GPA: 4.0ish my school is weird with GPA, I think colleges ended up recalculating mine
  • Rank: 3/48
  • Other stats:
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<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: common app essay was excellent, why Rice essay was above average maybe

  • Teacher Recs: excellent with plenty of anecdotal stories
  • Counselor Rec: excellent (helped her with her workload ie: apps of other students)
  • Hook (if any):
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<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: Arkansas/Texas

  • School Type: Boarding Catholic Benedictine
  • Ethnicity: Hispanic
  • Gender: M
  • major strength/weakness:
  • why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: lol whoever made this misspelled deferred
  • going to attend?: If I don’t get into Stanford: so yes, i will be going (I have no confidence)
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<p>I got Century and Trustee (15.8K). </p>

<p>Likely Acceptance to Engineering</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 730
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 750 (79MC 8E)
[</em>] SAT Total: 2280
[<em>] SAT II: Math II-800, US history-750, BioE-750
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Calc BC/AB (5/5), Env. Sci (4), Biology (5), US History (5), US Gov (4), Music Theory (5), Comparative Gov (5), Stats (5)
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.94
[</em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): Top 7% of 780
[li] Academic Awards: National AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, a few regional science awards, nothing prestigious…</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Important ECs: Chamber Orchestra (Concertmaster), MN Music Listening Contest (Founder and Captain), Science Olympiad (Captain), Senior Service Project (Officer), Young Democrats (Secretary of State)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Usher at Orchestra Hall, Violin teacher, Cashier/Server at Sbarro in the summer
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Um, basically I organized a few fundraisers for orchestra and about 100 hours “everywhere”
[</em>] Essays: Decent, commonapp about fixing my violin. Supplement about interest in engineering. Rice ones were REALLY good.
[<em>] Teacher Rec #1: Decent
[</em>] Teacher Rec #2: Decent
[<em>] Additional Rec: Orchestra Teacher of three years
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Knows me very well in a huge class
[li] Hook (if any): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Minnesota
[</em>] School Type: Large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[li] Legacy Yes/No: Nope</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer:
Took hard classes and female in engineering.</p>