**Rice University 2016 Regular Decision Applicants!**

icesk8girl
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:42:05 +0000

I’m too lazy to post an entire “Accepted” post with all the formatting, but I have to chime in here-- clearly, the subjective really does matter to Rice. I did not expect to get in (basic stats: 3.9 UW gpa, 2300 SAT, best SAT subject tests bio 800 math 760 lit 750, 5 APs taken thus far with 5 more upcoming this year, 5s and 4s on all thus far, barely top 20%. Somewhat unusual but not at all spectacular ECs.)

For the essay, I wrote a sarcastic poem about how I’m too privileged to be able to contribute a meaningful perspective to Rice, and anything I wrote saying otherwise would be BS. I thought I’d screwed myself over-- I really didn’t know anything/care particularly about Rice then, and was just too angry about the entire contrived college app process to write anything genuine.

I got in, with an 18K renewable scholarship. I have no idea how-- apparently the admin people appreciate wry humor that isn’t even very well written.