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Rice Fall 2019 Transfer Thread
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Financial Aid Award Notifications come out on May 1, so I assume that's when admission results come out!!
Stats:
College of William and Mary
GPA: 4.0 (mid term report 3.96) (18 credits both semesters)
Transferring to start as a sophomore (just finished freshman year)
SAT: 1500 (took in high school) (M:790 R:710)
Major: Managerial Studies
High school GPA: 3.61
I had transferred in high school too, spent 3 years in private and graduated in a public school in Houston Texas
I have taken 18 credits my first and another 18 credits my second semester.
Extracurricular:
Organizer for a Leadership program for underprivileged low income minority high school students the summer before my freshman year.
Regional chair for a national youth organization that organized camps, workshops, and lectures to educate youth. Region spanned from North Carolina to Maine
Volunteer chair for a national organization’s annual convention that had over 30,000 attendees
Participated in a 6 week long financial modeling course at a Private Equity firm in DC during my first semester, was 3rd out of 10 participants that we’re all post college full time business analysts.
Did another financial modeling course offered on campus
Only freshman on the executive appropriations committee for WM, which allocates next years budget for all clubs on campus. A budget of over $750,000
Griffin school partnership after school tutor for local Williamsburg middle schools for 6 hours a week.
Hooks: Muslim American. Can pay full tuition. From Houston
Recommendations: one from my Econ professor who knew my name and talked with frequently out of his 200+ students
One from a smaller seminar for an aquatic science writing course
Clubs: entrepreneurship center, finance academy, Muslim student Association. Griffin student partnership
Also applying to Cornell, Columbia, Uchicago, Northwestern, Upenn, and Brown