Chance me for next fall's Rice ED

analogcadaver
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 03:45:32 +0000

Class Rank: 120/754
UW GPA: 3.5866
W GPA: 3.98 with very strong upward trend (went from an F freshman year to all A’s in 4 AP’s by Junior year)
Without Freshman year counting: 4.3066 W
SAT: 700M 800W 750 CR 2250 total
SAT II: 710 Lit 760 USH
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Income: ~50,000
State: TX
Single parent
Desired Major: English with Secondary Ed. Certification

ECs and Volunteering:
10 hour a week job tutoring at Kumon
I’m president of the recycling / humanitarian club at my school, 2 years (adopted a house for habitat for humanity also)
I’m founder and president of my school’s Gay Straight Alliance, 2 years, raised money for local LGBT homeless youth shelter
I’ve been a member of Young Democrats for 3 years, president for 1 and historian for another year.
I’m the Vice President of my school district’s pilot team for a new district initiative that is in charge of making all energy conservation policies for my school and for the district overall. Changes we’ve made have saved the district about 1.25 million so far (2 years)
Volunteer hours are about 150, many at the downtown shelter for homeless Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender youth
Member of Science National Honor Society 1 year
Member of National Honor Society 1 year
Member of our school’s Peer to Peer tutoring program 2 years
French Club Vice President for 1 year, member for 2 years
Member of Spelling and Vocabulary UIL team (placed at regionals for individual)

Hooks (? possibly): LGBT with LGBT single parent

AP Scores and Courses:
WHAP - 4
APUSH - 5
English Lang - 5
Chemistry - 4
Human Geography - 5

Will be taking sr. year:

French IV AP
Gov / Eco AP
Environ. Sci AP
English Lit AP
Stat. AP
Euro History AP

I know my GPA isn’t that hot. But I’m hoping it doesn’t ruin all my chances. I’m going to apply ED to Rice next fall and RD to Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Berkeley.