Chance me for Rice EDII [US citizen outside the US, 41/45 IB predicted, 1530 SAT, mechanical engineering]

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Demographics

  • US citizen from India
  • India

Intended Major(s)
Mechanical Engineering

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
No GPA (ICSE/IB)
9th grade: 67% (I know it’s ■■■■)
10th grade: 92.4%
11th grade: 37/45 (6s in all HLs)
12th grade (predicted): 41/45 (7s in HLs)
SAT: 1530 (790M, 740RW)

Physics, Math AA, Chemistry (HL)
Business Management, Hindi B, English A (SL)

Awards
Certificate of Excellence in Math, Physics, and Hindi (school)
1st place in science fair (interschool)
2nd place in entrepreneurship competition (national)
3rd place in science fair (school)

Extracurriculars
Invented brick that captures & converts wasted heat into usable energy

Theorized and made a proof of concept on irrigation of water using only solar heat. Calculated distance of reach to be 200+km.

Investigated bioluminescence PV cells for energy generation at night; Verified data, Prototyped & modeled pendulum motion

Simulated magnetic induction communication transmitter of submarine in water; found mathematical relation of temperature and magnetic permeability constant (MPC) through Biot-Savart Law (modified for a helical conductor using 3D vector mathematics and calculus; solved for this modified integral equation for MPC using Python).

Proposed a bio-light energy harnessing design using PV cells; Assisted art team create a bioluminescence visual model; Competed against 25+ team

Self taught pianist.
Taught 2 adults music theory and conducted evaluations.

Registered Ayushman health insurance for 50+ BPL; Led food drive, distributed sanitary pads to 65+ women, clothes, blankets to 50+ street dwellers

School soccer team captain

Student council

Additional information (ongoing activities)
Engineering internship: something to do with training and making AI based wearable camera.

Mathematics/Physics paper: Combining two University-level concepts for this paper. Using Modal Analysis to derive equation of motion for bridges and innovatively using Runge-Kutta 4th-order method of ODE solver to plot 2nd order differential equations using vectors/matrices, graphing the 2nd order non-linear ODE of damped harmonic motion.

So far, I’ve been accepted to Purdue, UW-Madison, UMass. Amherst. Deferred from U-M, UIUC (kind of surprised). Rejected from GT. I’m kinda scared for Rice EDII. I did get to update my application for RD/EDII rounds, though, so I hope it works.

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Just my way of thinking about this: You have already been accepted to three excellent universities. You can do very well with a degree in mechanical engineering from any of these four schools (including Rice).

I have no idea how warm of a winter coat you will need a year from now, but I am confident that you will be at a very good university.

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This gives me some confidence. I’m glad you think this way. Thank you so much :mending_heart:

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Why are you scared ? You’re getting an ABET accredited degree - the where doesn’t matter - but you got into top of the line programs already.

No reason to be scared. You’ll be attending a great school come Fall - Rice or otherwise. Purdue and Wisconsin typically rank higher than Rice in MechE if that’s a concern - although all being ABET accredited I’m not sure that matters.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-mechanical?_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc

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You actually make a very valid point here… It actually makes me wonder as to why I am scared, but I just am for some irrational reason. Maybe just an effect of the entire admissions process.

While this is true, I set my eyes on Rice because it kinda aligns with a lot of things I’d like to do, like energy research and such. But indeed, upon some further logical thinking, I will end up in a good school. Thank you very much for your reply :slight_smile::raised_hands:

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