<p>I am currently a junior taking mostly honors and AP courses. Most of my high school career has been focused on the advanced classes because I know colleges look for students who think "higher" than just.... write the definition for osmosis. They look for challenging material being put to the student like intensive labs or more sophisticated homework for example.</p>
<p>During my sophomore year, I took Cross Country and I followed that with Track the next semester. This year, as a junior, I am not in sports anymore * I am not much of a sports guy* but I am involved in the following: Earth Club , Spanish National Honor Society, and I did a bit of community service at my local church.</p>
<p>Earth Club focuses on taking into consideration the planet and its resources and how we can prevent future damage towards it. Its a great club that is a bunch of fun. Spanish NHS is just like regular NHS only its for Spanish students who receive at least an A- throughout 3 consecutive Spanish semesters. </p>
<p>Rice University is a selective school, arguably one of the most, if not the most, seletive PRIVATE schools in Texas. It is my dream school and if I got accepted to it, I think I would have a heart attack or pass out. If I don't get accepted, its ok I guess. I have my safety schools : Texas Tech Univ. UT Austin, U of North Texas, or maybe even Texas A & M.</p>
<p>Guys I need yall's opinion on my chances into acceptance into my dream schools and what I need to improve on to get into them. Any personal experience with the colleges?</p>
<p>Omgsh, I almost forgot. I have taken the PSAT and got a 150. I am in at least the top 25% of my class with plans to move up to the 10 % I have not taken my SAT or ACT yet.</p>
<p>Well. Rice's admittance % is somewhere around 20%...So it is arguably more hard to get into Rice than even Cornell university. What I am saying is that it will be hard for almost anybody to get in no matter what your situation is. Your PSAT is...Well it is low. Very low, especially for Rice. You will need at least a 1900+ on the SAT to be somewhat competitive. </p>
<p>Basically the admittance to all the "elite" or highly selective schools is the same: "Get high grades, high SAT or ACT, good recs, good ecs, and get a lot of luck". Atleast that is my opinion. </p>
<p>Quick question. Why Rice? What's so special about it? I'm a Junior in High-School and live in Houston and never really even looked that much at rice (cept when i'm eating it...:-p). </p>
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<p>Take your SAT asap 'cause then people will get a better indication of where you're at right now. The mid-50% of SAT scores for Rice is somewhere in the 2000s so I agree with MIT, you'd need at LEAST 1900. Kudos to anyone who gets in with anything less than that.</p>
<p>If you already know what you want to study try getting a job/volunteer placement in that field to show you have a genuine interest in the subject.</p>
<p>Your rank will also have to at the very least be in the top 10%. How far outside are you? Because unfortunately, one year is usually not enough to move into it. :/</p>
<p>Work hard to move into the top 10 percent...I wasn't in the top 10 percent, but I had a 2170 sat score, and I applied E.D. and was rejected.....</p>
<p>If you move into the top 10 percent, and do well on the sats, you will have a good chance...another thing I recommend, is do research, it can help you stand out(I didn't do research, might have gotten in if I have)</p>
<p>Good Luck....</p>
<p>well you need to get really good test scores, a 150 is not very good, especially for Rice, so study reaaaaaaaaallllllllllllly hard for the ACT and SAT and get to the top 10%
if you dont do that, then you wont get in</p>
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<p>You need to bring your SAT score up. a 150 roughly equals a 1500 which is not a very competitive score for most of the schools you are looking at. I don't know what school you go to, but at my school, it's very hard to move up ranks. Huge jumps are almost impossible unless you have a phenomenal year, so don't count on being top 10%. You have to prepare for the worst by working hard to get a high SAT or ACT score. Try the ACT. It's a different kind of test, and it might be easier for you.</p>
<p>You should have at least a 2000 to be competitive for Rice and UT, especially if you're not in the top 10%.</p>
<p>Rice - definitely a reach school. I have friends that were in the top 5% that got denied.
UT - Reach if you're not in the top 10% of your class. Top 10% is automatic admission, and that's how they fill up about 85% of their spots. That means you're competing with everyone else not in the top 10% for those final spots. To increase your chances, definitely make sure you have a good SAT/ACT score, letters of recommendation, resume, and getting a summer job couldn't hurt. Most of all, do very well this year. This is probably the most important academic year for you.
Texas Tech - Match. This school is pretty easy to get into
Texas A&M - Match. A competitive school, but with your rank, I think you could get in. Just make sure you have a good SAT/ACT score. If you're not in the top 10% of your class, you can still get automatically admitted by scoring at least a 650 on math and critical reading on your SAT, or scoring at least a 30 on your ACT with at least a 27 on math and english as long as you're in the top quarter of your class.
TNU - Match. Easy to get into</p>
<p>Good luck. Work hard this year!</p>
<p>^ I don't think I've ever heard of someone calling North Texas TNU haha. I'm sorry, I just think it's random.</p>
<p>Since you live in Houston, I'm just going to tell you right now- UNT is the dirtiest, most grody campus possible. It's full of people from the North Texas area who are too afraid to leave home, so the UNT public relations department obviously doesn't try very hard to get other people outside of it to come. They claim to have a really good music program, but I just don't know how anyone lives in their dorms. (This is coming from someone that lives in the Metroplex and has been there countless times for cheerleading competitions and the like)</p>
<p>Tech & A&M are matches, UNT is a definite safety, UT will depend more on your SAT/ACT since making top 10% will be pretty difficult, and I would call Rice a high reach as of now.
Instead of UNT, I'd also look at Texas State and Stephen F. Austin; they're on a similar par, but more live-able and less region-centric.</p>
<p>Did you get into texas tech</p>
<p>The thing is to me that rice looks at more than ones grades you dont HAVE to be in the top 10 percent they look at grades obviously but they also wanna see how you can help the student body basically im saying that they look at much more than grades</p>