<p>Future</a> Owls</p>
<p>As of today. Only 16% acceptance rate. Any statistics that surprise you?</p>
<p>More out of state people this year. Seems like they’re angling for a more international student body. Can’t bode well for native Houstonians and Texans. </p>
<p>The yield rate is a bit disappointing… 37%. Only 2 out of the 6 people accepted matriculated at our school.</p>
<p>Other than that, not a bad year.</p>
<p>It’s a diverse class for sure and with only 43% from Texas. What surprised me was that only 29% of regular admission (650/2207) enrolled. I’m not sure if this data is consistent with previous years.</p>
<p>This is about what they were looking for. Rice reportedly had some issues when the yield rate was higher than expected last year. And the acceptance rate is down to 16%. Nothing to complain about there.</p>
<p><em>hopes for Rice die a little more</em></p>
<p>I would guess that the yield rate for Texans is much higher than the rate for others. As Rice tries to lower the percentage of students from Texas by accepting more from out-of-state, I would expect the overall yield rate to go down.</p>
<p>I did not see in that link any statistic regarding the percentage of applicants from Texas accepted (out of the total number of Texas students applying to Rice). I wonder whether Rice keeps that statistic.</p>
<p>The important pieces are that 82% of the class are in top 5% of their class and 25% of those reporting ACT scores are 35 or more.</p>
<p>Middle 50% of SAT and ACT Scores for Accepted Students</p>
<p>SAT (Critical Reading + Math) 1430-1540<br>
ACT 32-35 </p>
<p>Rice is the only top 20 school in texas and so there is no reason they can’t give a bit more preference to Texans. However, they are definitely not lowering the standards in order to do so. I know several students admitted to Rice are not going there mainly to attend a top 10 school but OTOH I know at least one who picked Rice ahead of Harvard this year.</p>
<p>joining runallday4 <em>hopes for Rice die a little more</em> Sigh</p>
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This is just ridiculous… I was so happy when I got my 33 and it put me a little above the 50% for accepted students. Now I’m slightly below it.</p>
<p>Do you think being from New England helps or hurts chances compared to someone from Texas?
Also, because of how much harder admissions just got, I’m thinking of dropping my elective and switching into AP Econ, which would have me take macro and micro. 
I keep thinking I have a good shot and then something happens that lowers my confidence.</p>
<p>Last question. Usually 950 are admitted, correct? Hopefully this means that admissions won’t go down too much for next year.</p>
<p>Being from New England is what makes you attractive. </p>
<p>The reason I am pointing to ACT is score is because an SAT score at Rice requires one to also take two subject tests (kind of like Yale, Brown, and Penn). </p>
<p>The admitted students are much higher in number (2500). I don’t know if they admitted fewer this year since they had an overflow last year at over a 1000.</p>
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<p>I’d agree that this is probably the case. It looks like they got the yield they were looking for, though, as the class size is about dead on with the target.</p>
<p>@runallday4: You’re probably looking in the vicinity of 950 for a target class size next year. This year was intended to be slightly smaller because they overadmitted last year. I think they were shooting for 925, but I don’t remember anymore. That’s not the number they admit, though–the number admitted has to factor in yield. I’d expect to see a similar number or slightly more admitted next year, but would be unsurprised if the number of applications also rose again.</p>
<p>So the acceptance rate should be roughly the same next year? I heard there was quite a drop between this year and last year.</p>
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<p>You are totally fine. Rice is not the kind of school that draws a line at a certain test score. If you’re within the middle 50%, your competitiveness now relies on the rest of your application. So focus on that.</p>
<p>Rice gives merit scholarships. So having higher scores can be helpful there.</p>
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<p>I’d expect it to decrease slightly (although not by as much as it did this time around). This year, it dropped because of (1) reduced target class size, (2) increased yield estimate, and (3) increased number of applicants. The first two probably won’t be significant factors either way. I don’t really know much about the projected trends, but I’d guess applications will continue going up since that’s been the trend at Rice and basically everywhere else.</p>
<p>I think a big part in the acceptance rate change is the smaller class size. Last year 1,006 were admitted, this year was 934. That’s a difference of 72, which if there is a 40% yield is 180 less students who were accepted, pretty big difference.
Also, I would guess they wanted around 934, because they went to the wait list, and if you go to the wait list it seems like it would be a little easier to be exact.</p>
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good. I’m trying to figure out what to work on. It’s too late to do much else. The only thing I can really think of is try to get elected to another leadership position as the year is ending. I think I’m on par in most aspects, but without any big hook. Hopefully being from New England will help me.</p>
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<p>This is wrong for numerous reasons. First, you need to look at the number admitted. You’re looking at the number enrolled. Second, the reason Rice overenrolled for the class of 2015 was because the projected yield was far smaller than the actual yield. Further, you’re neglecting to consider the massive increase in the number of applicants. There was a 1,500-application increase from last year to this year.</p>
<p>This year, 2,504 students were admitted. Last year, 2,600 were admitted. That’s a difference of 96.</p>
<p>According to President Leebron’s presentation to the Student Association in fall 2011, the target was an entering class size of 935. Next year’s target is 940, after which they’ll return to and maintain a target of 950.</p>
<p>After seeing this i am starting to get nervous. I am a junior and in the summer will be starting this dreaded college application process. Rice is currently my first choice. But seeing all the stats and much lower acceptance rate (21%-16%), i feel like I don’t have a shot any more. I got a 32 on my ACT score and thought it put me in a good position in that category but clearly it didn’t. Does anyone know what the average GPA of the accepted class since this is my one weak area. Also I am from Chicago, so does this make me an attractive student?</p>
<p>According to College Confidential’s Supermatch College Search, the Average GPA at Rice is 4.0. </p>
<p>It seems unlikely to me that more than half the incoming freshmen either accepted to or enrolled at Rice truly have perfect unweighted GPAs. </p>
<p>The entry for “GPAs of Incoming Freshmen” for Rice on the College Board’s bigfuture site says:
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<p>I would be interested in responses from others on this topic as well.</p>
<p>@MrAPMan</p>
<p>A statistic that you can’t overlook is that of the accepted students, 82% of the class are in top 5% of their class. Also remember that the mid 50s ACT scores are of accepted students and not necessarily of the enrolled student class. You being from Chicago (or being out of state) might help. If Rice continues to be your first choice, I recommend a campus visit in the Fall of your senior year and get an on campus interview (this is not a requirement but I think will improve your chances).</p>