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What are you saying that this means?
Also, does anyone know if Rice cares about demonstrated interest? And if they record contacts that you have with them?</p>
<p>It means that the mid 50 ACT scores of the actual enrolled students maybe lower. Take for example the mid ACT scores of the accepted Rice Baylor students:</p>
<p>“What is the average SAT score for students accepted into the Rice/Baylor program?”</p>
<p>“The mid-range SAT scores do not vary from the mid-range scores of the rest of the talented pool of applicants. For the class entering in the 2011-2012 school year, the mid-range (the middle 50 percent) fell between 1410 and 1540 on the SAT I or 31 and 34 on the ACT.”</p>
<p>I’m not saying that the accepted 10-12 students of the Rice Baylor program reflects the entire incoming class of 950. I’m just giving an example that the actual SAT or ACT scores of enrolled Rice students may actually be lower, on average, than the scores of all accepted students.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if they record number of contacts</p>
<p>Mr. AP Man,
I also have a hard time believing that half of Rice students have a perfect 4.0. Do you own one of the Princeton Review or Fiske guides to colleges? I don’t have mine with me, but that may be worth checking.</p>
<p>That might be for weighted GPA, in which case 50% over 4.0 is entirely believable.</p>
<p>I have another question about admissions, mainly for Texas residents. Would you say that there are a lot of students that apply to Rice from Texas schools even though they are below the 25th percentile, just as a “what if” school? Or, of all the applicants, what percent would you say are above the 25% for admitted students?</p>
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<p>The number reported is supposed to be unweighted GPA. The Supermatch College Search asks for students to provide their unweighted GPAs in order to be matched, and the highest possible input is 4.0, which would not be the case if weighted GPAs were used.</p>
<p>That could, however, be the explanation for the college’s GPA being reported as a 4; that is, the reported number is supposed to apply to unweighted GPAs, but someone erroneously inserted the weighted GPA, and the computer automatically reduced it to 4, the maximum allowed. However, if that is the case, it is true for 30 other colleges as well, making the information and search results less than completely reliable.</p>
<p>So from hearing all of this, is this thread even accurate then since so many errors could have been made with score imputations. If not inaccurate than a non creditable source.</p>
<p>There are several sources referred to in this thread.</p>
<p>I have no reason to doubt the information that Rice has provided about its accepted students, which was discussed early in this thread, and which is available on Rice’s website. With an increase in applications, it makes sense that Rice’s accepted students this year would have higher SAT scores than in the past.</p>
<p>I am not sure, however, that one should rely on GPA information from the Supermatch College Search, as the source of that information is unclear and an average unweighted GPA of 4.0 seems extremely unlikely.</p>
<p>The thread started with data from Rice. The data from Rice says 82% of the admitted class is in top 5% of the class. Why would it be hard to expect 4.0 GPAs for 50% if 82% are in the top 5%? But for all we know all schools are publishing weighted averages.</p>
<p>Accepted students tend to have higher scores from incoming students at most schools. People with high numbers can have multiple admissions and a reasonable percentage end up elsewhere, diluting the score ranges.</p>
<p>Common data set for 2010 class is showing 30-34 for incoming students.</p>
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<p>FYI, Rice doesn’t actually calculate any GPA statistics for admitted students. They view your GPA in the context of your school and don’t use that number to compare you to someone else. They don’t recalculate all applicant’s GPAs according to some standardized scale. So I wouldn’t get too hung up in finding any good GPA stats.</p>
<p>Rice isn’t a school that people just apply to for the hell of it, even when they’re below the 25th percentile… Those kids go to one of the many party schools we have here. I didn’t even know about Rice until my junior year, and I got a 2200 on my SAT in Texas lol… The 82% in top 5% is key! That other 18% is made up mostly of student athletes I guarantee you.</p>
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<p>Except that regardless of whether they’re giving us information on how many students enrolled came from schools that ranked or how many students accepted came from schools that ranked, the majority of students came from high schools that did not provide a class rank. Thus, the 82% in the top 5% statistic should be taken with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>^But if your high school does rank (the only reason you’d know if you were top 5% anyway) and you’re NOT in the top 5%, your chances at admission will be very slim even compared to Rice’s contemporaries. I’d say that is a fair statement, no?</p>
<p>My high school unofficially ranked, in that you could find out where you were if you wanted to, but they never sent rank to colleges.</p>