Is Rice a good fit for me?

Colleges & Universities Rice University
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<p>Rice was recommended to me by a friend’s mom. I’m looking for a school thats serious about academics, but also is filled with fun things to do.</p>

<p>White female from Tennessee</p>

<p>I attend one of the top public schools in the south…regularly sends students to top universities(Harvard, Emory, WashU, public ivies, etc…)</p>

<p>possible majors:History, English, or Political Science
possible minors:Spanish, Latin American Studies, Economics
(don’t worry, I’m not going to try to do all of them)
after college: either law school,grad school, or business school</p>

<p>GPA: 3.73 (unweighted)/4.1 (weighted)
class rank:top 10%
I will have taken 9 AP classes, 6 honors classes, and 4 years of foreign language.</p>

<p>ACT: 30 (33 reading/30 math/29 english/26 science)
Does Rice require SAT II’s?</p>

<p>high school schedule:
freshman
Orchestra-A
Geometry Honors-B
English Honors-A
Health Class-A
Biology-A
Spanish 1-A</p>

<p>sophomore (definately weakest part of my application)
Spanish 2-B
Alg 2/Trig-A
Orchestra Honors-A
English Honors-A
World History honors-B
Chemistry-B
english/history is a team-taught class that is arguably the hardest at my
high school including AP classes</p>

<p>junior year
AP US History-A
AP Physics B-B
Pre-Calculus-A
AP Junior English-A
US Government-A
AP Micro Economics-A
Spanish 3-A</p>

<p>senior year schedule
AP Senior English
AP Calculus AB
Gym(required to graduate)
AP Macro Economics
AP Environmental Science
AP Modern European History
Spanish 4, Honors</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Karate (1996-present)
training for 12 years
Second degree black belt:10/06
Nationally Certified Assistant Instructor Certification: 12/04
I teach both children/adults every week
Presidents Vision Tour Committee senior member
Head of 117th Regional Black Belt testing committee
2006 National Championship:
2nd place in two divisions
scoring/timekeeping committee
2005 Regional Championships:
3rd place in one division
Judging committee
Rotaract (2004-present)
Treasurer-2007
Head of Habitat for Humanity project chair-2006/2007
Relay for Life project chair-2006
RYLA nominated leadership conference participant-2006
Project Committee member-2005
various other projects I’ve been apart of
Student Council(2005-present)
Head of a committee, member of another committee
Homeroom Representative
Orientation tour guide since sophomore year
School Newspaper(2004-2005)-it was a class, could only fit it in one year
Sports Editor
TN HS Press Association award for feature article
National Honor Society member & tutoring/speaker committee member
400+ hours of volunter work by time of graduate (Presidents Gold Award)
Girls Club for two summers,then Animal Shelter,then juvy law group
Distinguished Spanish 1 Student award</p>

<p>The teachers doing my recommendations know me very well(one teacher I had freshman/junior year, the other I had sophomore/junior year) so I’m sure they’ll be excellent.</p>

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<p>I’m confused. Are you asking “Is Rice a good fit for me?”, or are you asking “What are my chances?” You’ve posted as the former, but are writing as if you are asking the latter… (And I’m no fan of “chances” posts. Noone really knows what your chances are. Now ifyou are asking about fit, you will have to tell us more about what you are looking for in a college.)</p>

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<p>I guess I’m asking for a little bit of both lol. I’m looking for an academically-oriented school with bright students, but who know when to have fun too. Size doesn’t matter to me, but I’d prefer to be in a metropolitan area or close to it. The campus needs to be beautiful too with that “college feel” if that makes any sense whatsoever.</p>

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<p>Well, in terms of fit (not chances), I think Rice has a lot of what you are looking for, but I’d note that almost half of all “good” schools would match the same criteria. Rice certainly has an accomplished and academically-motivated student body that knows when (and especially how) to have fun. We are in Houston, which is a huge city, but Houston doesn’t really give off the same big city feel that Manhatten or Chicago can. The campus is hands down beautiful. Not sure what you mean by “college feel” – If you mean ivy-covered gothic buildings, then no; if you mean lots of trees/grass with places to learn and live, then yes. Rice certainly does “feel” like a college, but I’ve yet to visit a school that didn’t. Again, many schools fit all of these things too. You’ll have to go more specific or, better yet, come for a visit!</p>