The Rice University Vietnamese Student Association is holding on Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm a College Leadership Workshop. Held on the Rice Campus, this workshop is meant for students to primarily learn more about the college application process.

Besides inspiring all students to achieve higher education, we would like to give them tips about applying to college. We will be holding a series of workshops covering a wide variety of topics such as interviewing skills, resume tips, application essays, the financial aid process, and more. We will also provide a glimpse of Rice college life and dispel some common myths and fears of students who are thinking about college. Furthermore, we hope to develop leadership skills in students so that they can be successful not only in their college endeavors, but also in any other additional future plans they may have.

This is the 5th year that we are holding the workshop. Last year was a great success and we hope to make this year’s workshop even better. There is a $5 fee for the workshop this year. We will be providing breakfast, lunch, as well as t-shirts and other supplies for the workshop. The event will be open to all interested students, but will be especially geared towards Vietnamese and Asian-American students.

Most of the day will be spent with actual Rice students who will share their college experiences as well as any difficulties they had while applying to college. High school students will have opportunities to ask Rice undergraduates any questions they may have about Rice, college in general, or anything else that comes to mind.

We would like to stress that our goal for the day is not to recruit students to Rice. Our main goal is helping students along in the application process no matter what school they are interested in. We may draw more examples from our experience in applying to Rice, but ultimately, we would like to encourage students to apply to any school that they wish to attend.

We will be discussing some of the factors that we considered as high school seniors in choosing a college and talk about some of the applications we filled out to other schools besides Rice. As always, if students are indeed interested in Rice, we would love to see them as our classmates in the near future and help them as much as possible throughout the application process!