How much is enough?

Colleges & Universities Rice University
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<p>Oregon, public school
White female</p>

<p>GPA 4.0/4.0 (uw)
SAT </p>

<p>800 CR
710 Math
800 Writing</p>

<p>SAT II
780 Math II
740 US Hist</p>

<p>Class Rank: top 1%</p>

<p>APs:</p>

<p>AP US Hist
AP Government
AP Calc AB
AP Calc BC
AP Statistics
AP Chem
AP Biology
AP Spanish
AP English</p>

<p>Honors English 9-11
Honors Chemistry 10
Taken all but 1 AP/Honors class high school offers</p>

<p>Awards, etc:</p>

<p>National Merit Semi-Finalist
AP Scholar
National Honor Society (10-12)
Spanish National Honor Society (10-12)
Spanish NHS Officer (11-12)
Furman Scholar
Peterson’s Essay Contest (national) 3rd place
Local awards</p>

<p>Main ECs:</p>

<p>*Varsity golf, all four years. League champions all four years. Indiv. qualifier to state (11), top 5 team placement at state (11)</p>

<p>*Speech and Debate. Co-captain this year. Went to Nationals in Public Forum debate. Won districts for debate 9,10,11. 3rd place at state in a speaking event. Etc. </p>

<p>*Volunteer–extensive volunteering. I created my own organization after freshman year…some media publicity for it. </p>

<p>Good recs. Good essay.
Interested in Economics. </p>

<p>Thoughts?</p>

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<p>in-fest 2005</p>

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<p>I basically had your same academic record except for gpa/rank (mine was lower). Remember people have gotten in with lower quantitative values across the board (gpa,test scores,fewer ap’s and awards,etc.) and people have gotten rejected with higher. So… I don’t think anyone here can really help you. Just fill out the application yourself; I’m sure you know enough about applying to college by just existing as a high school student and are probably capable enough to fill out an application well enough to get in.</p>

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<p>I think everyone sort of goes through panic mode when they find out the acceptance rate for Rice and they than post their stats on this site. I know I ended up doing the same thing. Basically though, we can’t tell you what your chances are. They might decide they only want five OR residents and than reject the least qualified of those five. The admissions process is so unique to each applicant that no one really knows what the chances are for any one person. Just fill out the applications and hope for a fat envelope.</p>