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<p>Nice job insulting those who got accepted, currently attend and have graduated.</p>
<p>To those who didn’t get in - it really sucks that you do not get a chance to be a part of the Rice community. Remember that a big part of the admissions committee is to find bright well qualified students who fit into Rice Not being accepted to Rice does not mean much more than you are not going to be at Rice. </p>
<p>There are many other great schools that may fit you better and will allow you to follow your dream.</p>
<p>Good Luck to all of you!</p>
<p>Admission stats:
Fall 2010 - 12,393 applied, 2,639 admitted (21%) Class 949 freshmen
Transfer - 462 applied, 120 admitted (26%)
If your heart is set on Rice, consider transferring from another school. Will need to do well the fall semester and have great recommendation letters. It is important that you can handle college level work. Some courses unfortunately, may not transfer.</p>
<p>When I opened the email yesterday and read that I wasn’t accepted, I literally felt like I died. Rice was my number one school and just about EVERYONE that knows me knows that. I cried for two hours mostly because I felt that since Rice didn’t want me that none of my other schools would. I didn’t even go to school today because I wasn’t ready to have to tell people who would come to be all excited that I didn’t get it. Rice paid for me to fly from MD to TX to visit in Oct and then rejected me. That’s what hurt the most–because I practically fell in love with the school when I went for those three days. </p>
<p>This isn’t my first rejection (WashU) but it definitely hurts a heck of alot more than the first one did–mainly because I was set on going there and to be honest didn’t really care much for Wash U.</p>
<p>Reading this discussion really helped alot though, just knowing that I’m not the only person that had Rice as their dream school and got rejected.</p>
<p>^ banjoman12348–it’s really not though. it’s an excellent school</p>
<p>He’s just bitter. Rejection is a part of life guys, keep your heads up.</p>
<p>I’m not bitter, I didn’t even send in my CSS financial aid profile because I didn’t think Rice was worth the $16, so I wouldn’t have been able to go there. I don’t know what kind of weird admissions process Rice has, but I got into Caltech, and Caltech is much better.</p>
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<p>Well, congratulations. Why don’t you stop wasting your time talking to the plebeians who attend the * mediocre * university and celebrate with your intellectually superior peers?</p>
<p>Come on. Rice is phenomenal school and those who were accepted and choose to attend will love it. It’s not the ONLY phenomenal school, so those who were not accepted should take heart. You will go to college and most of you will end up loving the place you attend and you will look back on this disappointment as a minor blip. Hard to hear now…but it will be okay.</p>
<p>I though I would try to ease their devastation.</p>
<p>banjoman12348- You should post on every university forum, other than Caltech of course, and tell all the applicants who got rejected that it is alright because the university is mediocre. I think this gesture would resolve their problems.</p>
<p>No, because some of those universities are actually decent, unlike Rice of course.</p>
<p>Lets just let the thread die. Not worth it</p>
<p>This is a thread created for those disappointed with their decision to support each other. Other universities have similar threads and they are not nearly as dysfunctional as this one. So it would be helpful if those not of the frame of mine to be supportive, or to stay on topic, left. That includes those expressing sour grapes to the extreme and those who currently attend Rice and just want to argue with anyone who criticizes Rice. Both of you are taking this thread far off topic. Cut it out.</p>
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<p>Telling people that the school that didn’t think they were quite “good enough” is a bad school is not at all helpful. It can make some feel like they they weren’t even good enough for a mediocre place. That’s pretty disappointing.</p>
<p>For those who have been rejected, I feel your pain. It doesn’t make much sense when you think about the schools Rice rejections are admitted to. I got a likely from an Ivy and not even a waitlist from Rice? I’ll never understand it.</p>
<p>Just a question…the emails regarding the decisions are not personalized are they.</p>
<p>^ No. They are pretty generic</p>
<p>He be trollin’
He hatin’
Caltech is ****, just sayin’ Rice is Betta’
God Damn Rice Betta’
Rice is so much Betta’</p>
<p>But seriously, these kids are having a lot of trouble with rejection, and I can honstly tell you that is probably feels more like an insult than a compliment that you think Rice is mediocre, since they had their hearts so set on this school for so long. I do however get your school pride, I think Rice is better than everywhere too. Doesn’t make it true for either of us though, since it really depends on the department, the professor, and the student, more than anything else.</p>
<p>Also, out of all the schools I applied to (Carnegie, Rice, Berkley (Boston Conservatory for music Berkley), Juliard, and Oxford) I must say that Rice’s is one of the stranger ones as far as their admissions go. For example: I’m a middle class, white, Christian, male, and from Houston and I got accepted, whereas my friend who is financially insecure, Hispanic, and female, did not. (wait listed). They really do have a unique process, so if you feel lost and sad, I’m not saying stop hurting, or wanting (you cope as much as you need to), but don’t feel worthless. In reality its not about what college you attend, its what you make of it. My uncle went to Harvard and is currently without a job (for the last four years), and my Dad went to South Western (in Texas) and he’s doing great for himself. You’ll find a community and happiness everywhere, and there is always Graduate School!</p>