@Faulkner1897 Thank you so much, will ask my son to take a look.
My S rejected. “international” graduating from US High School. SAT 1550 , 3 sat subject test (800 each) 3.97 unweighted GPA. Decent ECs. Applied for financial aid.Acceptance rate for international students applying for financial aid is less than 2% for all need aware good Universities/colleges.
Son was waitlisted. He has now been waitlisted to Rice, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins and WASHU. This cycle is crazy!!
Accepted!!!
Waitlisted!!! WOOOO
Waitlisted, what I expected
Rejected -
4.0 UW, 35 ACT, 10 APs & sports + all ECs
Congrats to all who got accepted. Those who didn’t get in, good luck and may be better things are waiting for you.
Any rice Baylor acceptances?
Accepted! I’m in shock! I just knew she would be waitlisted at best…
Accepted: OOS
SAT: 1570
Lots of science/math extracurriculars
14 APs by graduation
Waitlist…
reeeeejected 
good luck to everyone in the rest of the process!
Rejected!!
Decision Plan: Regular
Major: Astrophysics, Also Secondary Education Certificate
OBJECTIVE:
-Unweighted GPA: 3.98 / 4
-Weighted GPA: 4.58 / 5
-That is about half my classes as honors or AP. All As except one B sophomore year.
-6 AP. 14 honors.
-My school does not rank, but I know that I am right around 65 of my class of 720.
-ACT: 36 (36, 36, 34, 36) One sitting.
-SAT II: None.
-AP Exams: Junior year was United States History (5), English Language (5) and Music Theory (5). Senior year will be Environmental Science, Psychology and Calculus AB.
-From large public school in a rather well-off community in suburban Midwest. Sends lots of students to top 30 schools and the likes. Female, white.
EXTRACURRICULARS:
-Top musician in state on my instrument, invited to state music education conference for two years in a row, honors ensembles both times. Played at regionals for three years, upward trend.
-Help out some of my teachers during my free period. I teach underclassmen, and I think I mentioned in my application that I at one point wanted to go into education.
-Marching band section leader for three years, did marching band for four years, top concert band and orchestra for three years. Pit orchestra for three years.
-Two-time Camp NaNoWriMo winner. Wrote a novel in a month.
-No employment.
HONORS:
-National Honors Society, state commended, Top Scholar at school, AP Scholar, etc.
-Outstanding achievement in Spanish and physics junior year.
LETTERS:
-One letter of recommendation from United States History teacher. Could have been okay, or good, as she’s a strong writer but didn’t know me that well. (7/10)
-Other letter from my Spanish teacher who adored me! (9/10)
-Counselor was vouching for me. She’s also very articulate in her writing. (8/10)
ESSAYS:
-Common App essay was about regional and state music as mentioned above, about learning from mistakes/failure. It sounds a lot like a cliché “sports injury” story, except about dropping my instrument. (8/10)
-Supplements were about how Rice could accommodate what I thought I wanted to study (clarinet/music education), how I decided to change to physics and possibly intern with NASA. But I also wrote about being a member of the music and band community as a non-major. (9/10)
Congratulations if you got in, and good luck in the college search to everybody else!!
Accepted Rice with Trustee Scholarship, but its only 15k per year and no aid
ACCEPTED!!!
Waitlisted… Oh well, chances are I wasn’t gonna get in anyway, even with a 34 ACT, #6 in class, tons of IB and AP courses and ECs…
waitlisted oos engineering.
accepted! this was my first non-safety acceptance and i am SO happy!!
Rejected but I’m happy because I already made up my mind to go to Boston College.
Congrats to everyone that got accepted - Rice is an awesome school and the competition this year was extreme.
DD was rejected.