Rice University Admission Essays

I revel in an eccentric painting of a curled up, blue-haired woman; I overhear a girl rehearsing a classical monologue, maybe Shakespeare; I soak in the haunting sound of a violinist playing a Tchaikovsky concerto in a nearby classroom. Walking down the green and orange…

Sliding in a zigzag pattern down the slope, I descend the mountain. Halfway down the trail, I reach a small terrain park. Below me lay a number of jumps and grind boxes. Seeing nobody below me, I push off toward the first jump. Snowflakes bash…

As a young child, I was always fascinated by how things worked. I would constantly take apart my toys and put them back together to see what made them tick. It wasn’t until a life-changing event that I realized engineering was the field for me….