Purpose of the College Leadership Workshop

Held on the Rice campus, the College Leadership Workshop is an event designed to empower high school students with the knowledge and incentive to apply to college. The event is led entirely by college student volunteers from various universities in the Greater Houston area who are eager to share with the participants their insights on college life and academics as well as the admissions process.

Besides inspiring all students to strive for higher education, we would like to give them tips about applying to college. The event will consist of a series of workshops covering a wide variety of topics from tackling the essay and extracurricular activities to financial aid and how to choose the right college. 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.

Previous years' workshops have been great successes and we hope to make this year's workshop even better. There is a $5 registration fee ($7 late)for the workshop this year. We will be providing breakfast, lunch, and all necessary 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 mostly 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!