PLEASE Chance a Queer Christian that hates Houston for Rice ED2 😓🙏🏾 i got deferred Boston U ED1

Demographics: Female, African-American, Mississippi, super non-competitive school

Hooks: Low income, black, and ofc a bisexual Christian 💔

Intended Major: Health Science

ACT: 32 BUT literally only 5 seniors have a 30+ at my school and I’m the 3rd highest 😭

UW/W GPA: 4.0/98.39

Rank: 3/220

Coursework: 5: Ap Lang, 4: AP Psych, 3: APUSH, Calc AB, Current: AP Gov, AP Stats, and AP Chem. Dual Comp 2

Awards: 1. National African-American Recognition thingy 2. 1/2 students to get a 5 on AP Lang 3. highest average in AP Psych 4. highest scorer on ap psych exam at my school 5. AP scholar with honors

Extracurriculars: 1. Internship at a online therapy company during school breaks (20hrs/week, 15 weeks/year, 2 years) 2. 2-year vocational program in Health Science core. Accrued 150+ hours in clinical training, shadowing, and preparing for a CNA and Pharmacy tech certification (did not receive certifications though. The school ran out of funding for the additional programs to receive them.) 3. I’m a caretaker for my grandma with Alzheimer’s (20hrs/week, 40 weeks/year, 4 years. Full time caretaker in 7th and 8th grade which was Covid) 4. TA for special education students at our districts pre-school (4hrs/week, 10 weeks/year, 1 year) 5. I’m a TA for a winter-guard class at my school (4 hrs/week, 18 weeks/year, 1 year) 6. Interact club President- donated over 100 shoes, donated Christmas gifts to families, currently working on a hygiene drive to donate and volunteer with Shower Power, and some other stuff 7. School ambassador- we help transfer kids get used to the school and try to get them to be involved 8. Semi-Random EC: Marching band (8hrs/week, 18 weeks/year, 3 years) winter-guard(4 hrs/week, 12 weeks, 2 years) jazz band (4hrs/week, 18 weeks, 2 years) Tennis Co-captain (4 hours/week, 36 weeks, 2 years) 9. Random EC: Anime club Co-President, Beta club, NHS, Spanish club

Essays: Personal: wrote about sourdough bread almost killing me. I got appendicitis 😭🙏🏾 crazy enough, I was in Houston when it happened and was taken care of in the hospital down the street from rice. I don’t think I mentioned that though. I talked about how healthcare was more than treatment and included making people actually feel safe and blah blah blah. Idk about it 7/10

Why major?: Wrote about my grandma having Alzheimer’s and facing mistreatment at the nursing home. Went on to talk about wanting to contribute to healthcare equity for non-autonomous patients (older or disabled patients) 7/10? It’s hard cause the word limit is so small.

Why rice?: write about ACEing Autism cause I played tennis and TA’ed for disabled kids. Also mentioned Alzheimer’s buddies for obvious reasons 😪 and the Baylor patient discharge cause that would literally be so fun. Also mentioned the band. I think this was a 8/10 🤷🏽‍♀️

Residential college essay: wrote about me being a queer Christian and my experiences with that. Said I wanted to create a space for people who might be battling their faith with identity and tried to tie that to the college system and how it welcomes diversity and inclusivity. Idk how to explain that but I felt like I wrote it well 😭 9/10

LOR: I have truly no clue. It’s my ap lang teacher and my math teacher that I’ve had for 2 years. My counselor is new 💔

Other: I talked about how my school lost a lot of opportunities after Covid. Bunch of clubs shut down and Covid just got lifted when we started school so my area didn’t have many things I could get involved it. Also a lot of classes weren’t available anymore like physics and the pharmacy tech program I mentioned before. 😞

Also a guy got in from my school through questbridge but pretty sure he’s going for engineering. A ‘23 grad also made it in. Also for engineering

Schools:

Rice(ED2) Boston U(ED 1)—> Deferred and waiting (changed my whole common app after that lol) UF(EA) Duke(RD) Emory(RD) Northeastern(RD) Vanderbilt(RD)