Demographics
- US citizen but international student studying abroad right now
- I am a trans person so I would need to be in a pretty blue state/area
Cost Constraints / Budget
Really low budget, I’m relying on scholarships
Intended Major(s)
Linguistics/Language
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0 from grades 10-11
- SAT Scores: 1340 but im working to get a 1450+
List your HS coursework
- English: Honors English g11, will take AP lit and lang (if my school can provide it in time) in g12
- Language other than English: Thai and English Native, Japanese at N4 (intermediate level), studied Chinese for a few years but never took a proficiency test (conversational level)
- Other academic courses: Psychology in g11 ??v
Awards
Presented as a youth delegate at a UN conference
Extracurriculars
MUN and Journalism leadership teams
Tutor for middle school children, teaching both english, math, and essay writing over multiple summers
Working on research with a professor on Language and code-switching within signs and advertisements and how it’s different depending on the income of an area
Essays/LORs/Other
I will be getting a really strong letter of recommendation by the aforementioned professor who’s somewhat well known in Linguistics (having published multiple papers), I have worked with him for about a year or so
Schools
I was really looking into Rice University I appreciate the need-based aid part and really love how undergrad focused it seems and how close-knit people are, I really want to do research and from my limited googling I think Rice would be an okay choice, comments appreciated!! Is there any other universities that fit me?