<p>Anybody know why the acceptance rate for Rice ED got so much lower this year?
Last year 29% were accepted, but this year out of the 1,231 applicants in the Early Decision Plan, 306 were admitted and only 127 students were selected for deferral. The rest were denied.</p>
<p>That's less than 25%....
Do you think that the acceptance rate for regular decision will be higher this year?</p>
<p>Last year, the yield rate was astonishingly higher than Rice had expected. The freshman class has about 100 more students than Rice had anticipated. They are most likely compensating for that this year, which is going to result in a lower acceptance rate. Potentially much lower.</p>
<p>If the ED pool acceptance rate is 24.8%, then I would imagine the RD acceptance rate could drop as low as 15-16%.</p>
<p>Going off those stats and last year’s, there were 200 or so more ED applicants than in 2010. I’m sure that had some contribution. I don’t know how RD will change, though. Best of Luck!</p>
<p>The year I applied, Rice had 661 students apply ED; we had under 10,000 applicants total for a class of 775.</p>
<p>Rice has done a lot recently to improve its national status (four years of #1 quality of life will do that), but two consequences of that are a larger applicant pool and a higher yield rate. The growth we underwent the past 3 years did a bit to stem the tide, but I think we’ll see Rice become much more competitive - and dip well under 20% acceptance overall - in the next year or two.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, where did you get these figures from?</p>
<p>When I got deferred, they screwed up and sent an acceptance email afterwards.</p>
<p>When they apologized in their NEXT email, they included the figures to show us just how competitive it was this year.</p>
<p>All of the numbers I got are from press releases on the Rice website. I just nerded out and compiled them into [url="<a href="Rice Admissions – Backroads & Boneyards]some</a> charts and graphs<a href=“2007%20onward”>/url</a> with 2012 projections if you’re interested.</p>
<p>Wavylays, wow. That freaking sucks.</p>
<p>Ugh, I’m just hoping that the rate doesn’t go down to drastically for class of 2017, I’ll be EDing next year.</p>
<p>It probably will drop, but not a much as this year. The yield was unusually high, as FallenAngel mentioned and this was likely reactionary.</p>
<p>The projected class size is actually smaller for this year (Fall 2012: 935) than next year (Fall 2013: 940). I doubt five people will make much of a difference. I was told by an admissions officer earlier this year that they know the acceptance rate will be lower this year: the target class size is smaller and the number of applications are rising. It’s the unfortunate truth. Rice admissions is becoming more competitive.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I now know who silentsailor is.</p>
<p>I have all of the famous</p>
<p>Don’t you love when that happens?</p>
<p>I don’t think I know who any of you guys are. Atleast I haven’t managed to draw a line between CC and actual people.</p>
<p>You don’t have mad creeping skills like I do, Antarius.</p>
<p>Know ALL OF THE OWLS!</p>
<p>I know Tilgaham…</p>
<p>And adamb529.</p>
<p>If you assume that Rice does not want to fill more than 30% of the incoming class with ED, you get 300 plus or minus a few people. They took 298 last year and 306 this year which did not change. What changed is the applicant pool size.</p>
<p>The graph from silentsailor is interesting. I suspect his trend prediction is very real for 2012 and Rice is on her way to becoming lot more exclusive over the next 5 years.</p>
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<p>Looks like it. Rice has been doing a good job of marketing itself both nationally and internationally.</p>
<p>Oh this is funny. I think I know at least WHO everyone is except Antarius and FallenAngel9, though I probs have met FallenAngel in real life and don’t know it. DorianMode is grad school creepz clearly operating on pacific island time.</p>