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who's gotten a rice merit scholarship? if you have, post your stats. and does anybody know the different merit awards they give and how much each is worth (i havent officially seen this anywhere)
thanks.

By Angrod (Angrod) on Monday, February 16, 2004 - 08:55 pm: Edit

I haven't seen an official merit awards list either. I recieved the Trustees Distinguished Scholarship, which is $32,000 total, $8000 each year. But that is it. I know some others here got some faculty research and engineering scholarships also.

1580 SAT (best subscores)
800 Math IIc, 750 Writing, 730 Chemistry
Homeschooled, so no class rank, but straight A's
Over 30 hours of college classes at Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Robotic research at LSU-S
Made presentation at faculty research symposium
Worked full time at LSU Med center last summer as a research assistant

EC's decent - anyone heard of orienteering?
Good rec's
I have no idea on my essays, I hate writing

By Shoshie (Shoshie) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 03:36 pm: Edit

I got the same thing.

Over a 4.0 weighted, a 4.0 non.
Rank- 2
SAT: 1550
SAT II: Writing 730, Math IIC 750, Physics 730
Good EC's...President of my very large youth group and on regional general board. I work, tutor and hour and a half a day in our writing center, captain of the varsity scholastic bowl team.
Good rec
Nifty essay

By Dr_Slc (Dr_Slc) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 07:40 pm: Edit

i got the trustee distinguished scholarship as well as the century scholars scholarship (3,000 (for 2 years) + guaranteed research mentorship (for four years))

3.95 uw
no rank
SAT: 1500
SAT II: Writing 800, Math IIC 800, Chemistry 760, Biology-M 740
Decent ECs...lotsa research (w/ awards with those) and president of three clubs...

By Nvan629 (Nvan629) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 07:45 pm: Edit

angrod - you're from shreveport?? that's awesome, representin' louisiana (i'm from new orleans!)
my stats (in case you care to evaluate chances, since they do say on the thing "national-level achievements" or something like that):

4.0 UW, 1/288 rank
SAT: 1500(800M/700V), ACT: 35
SAT II: 800 MathIIC, 800 Physics, 760 Writing
essays - good, but nothing amazing
box - clever mathy thing

ec's:
-mu alpha theta (club president and vice president on national level, news editor of national delegate website, etc., and many trophies from state and national conventions)
-french club (presidnet)
-comp programming club (president)
-youth group (treasurer)
-tennis varsity
-member of NHS, latin club for 4 years
-member of key club, quiz bowl, 9-10
-student council representative for one year
-tulane science scholars program
-boys state
-ARML
-some awesome community service stuff, about which i wrote my essays

-national merit finalist
-presidential scholar candidate (do they automatically know about that?)
-univ of rochester award
-loyola univ french award

and i skipped a grade - does that matter to them?

anyway, if you actually sat there and read all that stuff, then i admire you b/c i admit i probably wouldn't do it. do i have a shot for their scholarship or are they looking only for like olympiad winners or something? thanks.

By Angrod (Angrod) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 11:02 pm: Edit

Nvan, I've never evaluated chances before, but as far as I can tell yours look GREAT! I would say that if I got a merit scholarship, you should for sure! Yeah Shreveport! Your the first Louisianian on this board I have seen! I guess you applied RD? What do you plan on majoring in?

By Nvan629 (Nvan629) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 11:07 pm: Edit

yeah, i applied RD. intended major: probably a cross between discrete math and electrical engineering. yeah, there are few of us louisianians on here, but i have seen a few other overachieving pelican boys and girls. how bout you, what's your intended major?

By Angrod (Angrod) on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 10:15 am: Edit

Electrical engineering! Awesome, that is mine too! Man, both from LA and majoring in EE. Pretty neat. When you say cross, do you mean double major, or a kind of custom major?

By Nvan629 (Nvan629) on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 04:37 pm: Edit

yeah i meant double major, sorry for the ambiguity. yeah that is pretty crazy. even more ironic: my alumnus interviewer from here in LA was none other than an EE major at rice. spooky huh?

By Angrod (Angrod) on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:22 am: Edit

Man, that IS spooky! Your double major sounds pretty neat. I might need to consider double majoring... Oh well, we will see.