<p>i got my email id.</p>
<p>when?? in the mail?</p>
<p>no, i applied for it. cant remember what website. therefore, i have a facebook account. yay!</p>
<p>On the jones website it specifically says not to apply for an account until Oweek. i didn’t know about that so i tried and messed up my account. like i can log in but i don’t have an email. so if you haven’t yet, just wait.</p>
<p>I’m a Sidizen…!</p>
<p>Death from above</p>
<p>hey i’m a lil sorry for getting off-topic, but since you guys are rice enrollees, i thought u’d be the best ppl to ask this to: on the Rice Common App Supplement, they have a box and says “Put Something that Interests You” What did you guys put for the boxes? i just need a general idea of what to do</p>
<p>Be unique, use your imagination. Make it… “you.”</p>
<p>Hey Samian! I’m a freshman at Rice now and I can clearly remember the sinking feeling I got in my stomach when I saw “the magic box” on the Rice application. Wrprice gave the best advice, but if you wanted a couple of examples of items people placed in the box, I know of two. I put a picture of myself juggling torches and I know of a friend that put a picture of a bowl of rice… I got in, my friend didn’t, so perhaps the attempt at humor didn’t go over at the admissions’ office as well as he’d hoped. 
But don’t stress about it…it’s on the lower end of the admissions factors I’m sure. Have some fun with it!</p>
<p>My son put a picture of a bowl of rice and he got in…</p>
<p>lol aww i love you guys! any more examples out there u guyz wanna add???</p>
<p>My daughter used an an origami crane she made representing her year in Japan…she was accepted ID last year.</p>
<p>FYI: The admissions office <em>hates</em> it when people glue real rice to the application – it unsticks in the mail and falls all over the floor. And as you might imagine, they get a <em>lot</em> of boxes involving rice. I don’t recommend it because it’s too cliche, but the box doesn’t necessarily make or break you.</p>
<p>Like I said, be <em>unique</em> and do something that relates to YOU. The less likely it is that someone else will do the same thing, the better. Remember that you’re trying to STAND OUT.</p>
<p>I put a picture of a my golden retriever swimming with a tennis ball in my box, and I got in. However, attending Rice wasn’t an option for me due to money. Great school, though, and I thoroughly enjoyed Owl Weekend. The 09’s and beyond are going to have a great time.</p>
<p>how can you fit a picture in there, the box is sooo small?!?!! did you make it smaller online and print it out?</p>
<p>I did a picture too. I cut mine a little but I know I went outside of the size of the box. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!</p>
<p>is ur “mystery box” in part 2 or in the signature page that u download and mail??</p>
<p>Oh I meant last year I did the app and got in. I believe mine was on the signature page that I downloaded and mailed.</p>
<p>what kinda picture was it?? im clueless</p>
<p>It was a photo of me and a family that I lived with for two weeks in Thailand. We were standing lined up. Wow I miss them so much all of the sudden. It was really important to me and I think that Rice understood what I was trying to show by putting that picture. I think they saw that I was a caring person and I could bring some sort of diversity to the campus (Note: I did write a little blurb under the photo so I don’t think they could have got all that just from looking at a photo)</p>
<p>I just did an outline of the state of Alaska and put a few unique things from our state around the edges. I know it wasn’t clever or original but I wanted to push the fact that so few people from my state apply to Rice every year. Now I am just waiting for the December 15th rejection letter. Does it get mailed from Rice on the 15th or do people usually have it in their mailboxes by the 15th? I am literally counting the days and am really nervous.</p>