<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):2320 (800M, 800CR, 720WR)
ACT:
SAT II:750 Math II, 720 Literature
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):approx 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):72/700
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):Spanish(5), but 6 more to come
Senior Year Course Load: Most rigorous, taking extra IB classes just for the value of them
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit (chose Rice as #1)</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Soccer, Build my own guitars, Computer Science club
Job/Work Experience: 1 year in a nuclear valve warehouse, 1 year as an intern at a CPA firm
Volunteer/Community service: 3 consecutive years of Galveston mission trips
Summer Activities: Work, soccer
Essays: So good, my counselor had her husband(who works at Rice) to put in a good word for me
Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good
Counselor Rec: Pretty good
Additional Rec:
Interview: None, but I did an overnight visit</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: IB, pretty competitive
Ethnicity: Half white, half Iranian
Gender: M
Income Bracket: under 50K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Both parents went to Rice, grandfather was a professor, aunts, uncles went to Rice. Very traumatic childhood experience</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: SAT, crazy legacy, essays
Weaknesses: maybe grades and no interview
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly, I cannot imagine why. Possibly grades or no interview, but I am in shock.</p>
<p>General Comments: Don’t trust chance threads. I’m not being bitter, but now I have a lot of work to do because out of hundreds of replies to my chance threads, not one person told me there would be a chance I wouldn’t get in.</p>