<p>African American Male
Memphis, TN
Low-Income Family ($22,000)
First-Generation
ACT: 25 Writing: 8
Honors Classes: 12
AP Classes: 7
GPA: 3.29/4.295
Rank: 20/441</p>
<p>Extra Curr.</p>
<p>President of Save Darfur - Dollars for Darfur (1 yr.)
President of Model United Nations (1 yr.)
Member of Memphis Urban Debate Team (1 yr.)
President of Design - Tech Team (Helps with school functions and designs banners, decorates, etc.) (4 yrs.)
Yearbook Divisions Page Editor (1 yr.)
Early Biologist Reasearchers (9th Grade Club for people interested in Biology) (1 yr.)
Memphis Greater Whitehaven Foundation Tutor (Tutors 9th Grade students for Tennesse Algebra I Exam required for graduation) (2 yrs.)
Historical Society (1 yr.)</p>
<p>Essay: Wrote on Spongebob’s influence over me… Career Discovery… Sexual Therapy… (All in one essay in under 800 words)</p>
<p>Other:</p>
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<p>**Due to lack of school sponsors, some clubs were cut! Example: The Model United Nations sponsor left after my sophomore year to teach at Rhodes College.</p>
<p>I’d say about 35-40 percent chance of admission.</p>
<p>You have overcome A LOT, and you are poor, first-generation, and black, which will help a lot. a 25 SCT is pretty lo by Rice’s standards though.</p>
<p>If your ACT had been a 30, I’d say you have an 85-90 percent chance of admission.</p>
<p>Yeah, I KNEW the ACT score was low anyway haha. The only thing good about the score is that I have a 30 in English. Anyway, thanks for the promt response man.</p>
<p>you have a 3.29 yet your 20th? damn man i wanna go to your school lol. You got a lot going for you, mostly your diversity (racially and economically) and your first generation. Idk how Rice would view you, but i like your shot at many top schools.</p>
<p>Our class rank is based off of the weighted GPA…</p>
<p>The reason it is low (3.29 UW) is because of non-acedemic classes (Keyboarding, Lifetime Wellness (Physical Education), basically electives!) bringing it down. I didn’t care much for them, especially since I design websites and can type 70 GWAM, I had a B in keyboarding and then a C the second semester because I didn’t feel like doing the “busy work”. I got a B in Lifetime Wellness because even being black and average build, I cannot dribble a ball.</p>
<p>i think adcoms will take that as lazy, im sure a gym grade of an A could be achieved if you tried? you don’t need to be able to dribble to do well in basketball in a gym class. bad grades in electives usually mean the student doesnt care, colleges want a well rounded student who does care…that could hurt you, but still, i think u shud b fine. just realize colleges look at UW much much more</p>
<p>Oh, no, the gym teacher gave grades–literally–on how many lay-ups you can do in one minutes, 3-point shots, how fast you can run, etc. I am unable to do most of that stuff, not out of laziness, but from the fact I had a spider bite on my testicles when I was 12. Basically, all I can do is walk fast lol. But, hey, I got a B which is better than the F I should have received.</p>
<p>And yeah, I know my unweighted GPA is lower than the standards, but I was just wondering what my chances were since I tried to make up for lackluster GPA and test scores with extra curricular activies, a bomb essay–basically character.</p>
<p>a spider bite on the testes? Ew… What kind of spider was it and how big a mark did it make? Just wondering.</p>
<p>I can’t believe your gym teacher grades like that what a jerk. I am athletic and fast (can run a 4.6) but I can’t shoot a basketball for anything lol looks like I’d get a C!</p>
<p>Just curious, but which Model UN conference are you in?</p>
<p>I could only do the Model United Nations during my sophomore year. I made myself president via taking charge of everything myself and persuading everyone that the current president inadequately fulfilled her duties as president. 
Seanky, yes, but I was a great leader.</p>
<p>The conference was held at Rhodes College. It’s like the second or third most prestigious college in Tennessee. Well, actually, we have only one well-known college being Vanderbilt. But, most students (wanna-be “top students”) shoot for UT Knoxville and Rhodes College as their prime choices.</p>