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...would think that a flutist-cum-poet with a 1,520 sat, an unblemished transcript and a passion for philosophy would find a warm welcome at Houston's Rice University. Renaissance Girl was involved in so many extracurricular activities - band, the literary magazine, the astronomy, philosophy and poetry clubs - that it took minute handwriting to squeeze them onto the application. Yet she never made it off the waiting list...
...even if you didn't take calculus in the ninth grade, there are steps you can take at application time to better your odds. Last spring three of the country's most selective schools - Rice University, Bowdoin College and Cornell University - allowed TIME behind the closed doors of their admissions deliberations. The one stipulation: that TIME not use the names or certain identifying characteristics of kids like Theater Boy. The insights we gleaned won't substitute for top scores and grades. But they did puncture some of the myths that often prevent an applicant from winning admission...
...first two years in office, Rice eliminated Stanford's annual operating deficit of $30 million. Though the cuts were difficult for the faculty, they set the foundation for five years of highly successful fundraising...
Another defining feature of Rice's tenure was her strong stance on affirmative action. She argued that it was right for the university to use affirmative action in hiring junior faculty and staff, but that it should not be applied in tenure decisions...
Despite her success at Stanford, Rice's friends and colleagues say that now, she doesn't consider a university presidency--even at Harvard--enough of a challenge...