<p>Since Rice stresses diversity, would being a twin increase my chances?</p>
<p>Conjoined?</p>
<p>no. fraternal</p>
<p>No it can actually help you get rejected if you are your twin have almost the same stats (ECs, GPA, test score).</p>
<p>I don’t agree with cdz512. I believe there is no down side to being a twin in applying to Rice. Good luck with your application! :)</p>
<p>hehe I don’t know for sure. I just hypothesized that theory.</p>
<p>On the website right now is a story of twin brothers moving in to their colleges. Helps that they were val and sal, I’m sure.</p>
<p>cdz512, it seems like there’s a lot you don’t know for sure. Stop posting like you have any authority on any subject.</p>
<p>I hope you know I didn’t grab my thoughts out of thin air. </p>
<p>If you read this thread, many people say that they try to be different with their twin and not try to be the same. And by the way, I didn’t try to post like I have any authority.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/493854-suggestions-twins-college-applications.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/493854-suggestions-twins-college-applications.html</a></p>
<p>I think it’s worth pointing out that there are a RIDICULOUS number of twins at Rice, with either both attending or one at a different school. I have a room of friends where 4/6 of them have twins elsewhere. I don’t think it has any bearing on admissions but it’s a statistically improbably fun fact.</p>
<p>Ditto NYSkins1.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking cdz512, have you been accepted to a college yet and which one will you be attending (if you don’t already)? You post quite a lot on multiple college boards, including:</p>
<p>UMich
Stanford
Harvard
U Penn
Duke
Brown
U Chicago</p>
<p>…and of course Rice. Just wondering.</p>
<p>cdz–In case you’re feeling a bit picked on, (I wouldn’t blame you if you were!) I think what a lot of current Rice students on this forum are objecting to is that you’ve occasionally given advice without making it clear that you’re not yourself a current Rice student. If you pointed that, as you’ll often see incoming freshmen doing, the complaints will probably disappear.</p>
<p>When I visited Rice, twin sisters gave me a tour of the campus. it was pretty cool. so, I guess being twins doesn’t count you out, huh?</p>
<p>PS. one was a psych major, the other was a biology major. so I guess they werent “identical”</p>
<p>BerkeleyMom - You’re completely right. I don’t mean to make cdz512 feel attacked/picked on, but although I’ve tried to be good, I’m not always great at holding my tongue :)</p>
<p>cdz512 - Not only do you give advice without letting people know that you neither go to Rice nor live in Texas, you state many of your opinions/assumptions as fact, and only concede that you don’t actually know until someone corrects you. If you’d just add “I’m not sure but I think…” in front of everthing you’re not 100% positive about, you may find that we would be much more welcoming of your comments! :)</p>
<p>Reid2575, yes I am attending college. I am attending Bard College at Simon’s Rock (the early college). During high school, I have taken numerous AP tests (I self studied because they weren’t hard and others I took the class) my freshman and sophomore year due to my school schedule but I did run out of some classes to take (specifically math). I did dual enroll with a university during my sophomore year and also took college courses during the summer as part of a summer program at a university.</p>
<p>The reason why I’m on so many forums is I’m required to transfer after I’m done with this year (your required to apply to schools to transfer too after your sophomore year). And so I have done extensive research on the internet, information books, and through information sessions where college representatives come.</p>
<p>“Extensive research on the internet, information books, and through information sessions” does not make you an authority figure. You are not in college; you are in a high school that gives advance credit, and the word of someone actually associated with a specific school (or even in a four-year university) takes more credence over that of someone who has looked on the internet and in books. We have no problem with your trying to give out advice; what we have a problem with is that you give it out like you have any amount of authority on the subject. If you would make it clearer that you are not a Rice student (or a college student) in your posts, then we would not take issue with them.</p>
<p>I was never trying to have ny authority, nor did I intended. Thanks for making that part up and picking on others. </p>
<p>Also last time I checked Bard College at Simon’s Rock is a 4-year college. I don’t get advance credit for that, I get college credits with the option to go into grad school and professional school after 4 years. We have to choice to transfer after our sophomore year or continue to stay. Most people transfer. So most people look for colleges to transfer to if they want. Some people choose to stay. </p>
<p>I think you need to stop bossing and picking on other people.</p>
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edit typo: “ny” should be “any”</p>
<p>It seems that NYSkins1 is trying to be a big authoritative figure that bullies other people around. It doesn’t seem to me that cdz512 is trying have more authority over the Rice students. He/She isn’t downplaying other people’s advice. Nor is he trying to be the big boss in this forum. Sure some of cdz512’s advices might seem awkward and some might not be exactly correct but it doesn’t mean that he is trying to be an authoritative figure and taking more credence over others.
NYSkin1, your the one that is calling cdz512 out and trying harass/humiliate/make fun of him/her. Your the one that is trying to belittle others here. I think you (NYSkins1) need to stop trying to be the the big shot.</p>
<p>Also Simon’s Rock College is a 4 year institution and US News ranks it as the 3rd best baccalaureate college in the northeast. The students take college classes like other college students at other colleges, get actual college credits, transfer or graduate with a B.A., and go to grad school.</p>
<p>CDZ512/gunit5 - (strange how your writing styles are so similar… ;)) A long time ago I figured out that you were not a Rice student; I think it was after you told a Rice applicant something about how Rice “dorms” were like all dorms with undergrad R.A.'s to keep an eye on you… and that’s when I realized that you didn’t know that the R.A.'s at Rice aren’t that at all, and that you weren’t, in fact, a Rice student. Yet you continued to answer prospective student’s questions as if you were - and it even began to bother me, and I am not easily bothered! I just checked your other posts, on another thread, and see the same kind of behavior; you are advising students applying to med school as if you were somehow in a position to know about med school.<br>
I have to agree with NYskins, and Reid, and others. If you are posting on the MIT website, make sure you don’t answer questions as if you are a MIT student; same for Rice, and Univ. of Mich. (And another clue that let me know you were not a Rice student; “your” for “you’re”, and other little grammar mistakes like that…
I am glad that you want to post here, but please, come clean and start your posts with, “I don’t attend Rice but…” or “I’ve read this…”</p>