I hope 'international" students (graduating from US high school or high schools outside USA) will participate in this thread.
the universities only disclose what % of the admitted students are “international”. However, they never disclose the acceptance rates of international students. If the overall acceptance rate at Rice be 10%, the acceptance rate for international students will be less than 5%. Moreover, if the student needs financial aid, the admission probability decreases more. My son will be graduating from US high school and applied to engineering program at Rice. Following are his stats
Unweighted GPA 3.97, Sat 1550, 3 subject tests with high score, 8APs, average ECs. applied for financial aid.
I do not believe Rice breaks out the acceptance rate for international students versus the acceptance rate in general. Rice is need aware for international applicants so an international applicant needing financial aid may be less likely to be admitted than a full pay international applicant. Being from a country with fewer applicants may be a slight advantage over being from a country with many applicants such as China. https://financialaid.rice.edu/international-students https://admission.rice.edu/apply/freshman/admission-statistics
I do not understand why the colleges want to keep their data secret! That implies they have lot of things to hide from public. The law makers should try to make FOIA applicable to college admissions too!
@PA student’s dad, Not sure what you are really asking?
Rice is private school and can do whatever. Besides, no secret keeping. Data you are asking is insignificant to Rice and for many of us.
At the 2 campus visits last year, parents asked various questions and Rice answered them all and if didn’t know the answers to questions and email was given as follow-up. Please ask Rice admission, I don’t think they are hiding anythings regarding admission stats.
Good Luck,
Here are some relevant data, all obtained from publicly available sources. I don’t know what inferences you can really make, except that is likely that the yield rate is higher for people admitted from Texas, and that the applicants and student body are increasingly from out of state and outside the US. For example, we cannot tell from these data how strong the international applicants were in terms of their academic or extracurricular accomplishments or personal qualities. That is one reason why the aggregate data aren’t really that useful.
Class of 2008
Applicants: 3409 (42.1%) Texas; 4280 (52.8%) Other US; 416 (5.1%) International
Class of 2018
Matriculants: 429 (45.2%) Texas; 408 (43.0%) Other US; 112 (11.8%) International
Class of 2019
Matriculants: 405 (41.8%) Texas; 451 (46.6%) Other US; 112 (11.6%) International
Class of 2020
Matriculants: 417 (42.6%) Texas; 455 (46.5%) Other US; 106 (10.8%) International
Class of 2021
Applicants: 5171 (28.6%) Texas; 9816 (54.3%) Other US; 3076 (17.0%) International
Matriculants: 436 (41.7%) Texas; 500 (47.8%) Other US; 110 (10.5%) International
Class of 2022
Matriculants: 369 (38.5%) Texas; 470 (49.1%) Other US; 119 (12.4%) International
Class of 2023
Applicants: 7521 (27.8%) Texas; 15,570 (57.5%) Other US; 3983 (14.7%) International