<p>Does anybody know how to decline admission to Rice? Do we just not do anything? </p>
<p>That sounds terribly inefficient on their part.</p>
<p>You must decline online. Log into your Rice online account and You’ll find out. Vastly easy. Online stuffs’ better than Reply cards I’d say!!</p>
<p>WakeUp…where are you going instead?</p>
<p>Thanks! I found it!</p>
<p>Right now, it’s really a fight to the death with UT BHP/Plan II or Duke… too little days left!! </p>
<p>Good luck with all of y’all! And I wish the Rice Class of 2014 the best! I hear the parties are amazing. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for declining. I just was admitted from the wait-list. haha. I am so stoked right now!</p>
<p>They’re admitting from the wait list before May?!? :eek:</p>
<p>How COOL!</p>
<p>That is good news for waitlist students; usually those lists don’t come into play for a long time. My son has very reluctantly had to say no to Rice, so we hope that gets someone else off the list. It was just far, far too expensive for us compared to the alternatives.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>In case anyone else is curious I too got off the waitlist today</p>
<p>^Congrats! Best surprise ever.</p>
<p>Wow congrats to people who got off the waitlist! Does anyone else find it surprsing that they’re using the waitlist so early this year? I was under the impression that waitlist decisions would not be made until mid May.</p>
<p>I thought the same. I guess they were stingy with initial offers and aren’t getting the yield they hoped for.</p>
<p>That is SOOOO weird that Rice is already accepting off the waitlist! I was under the impression no college would go to the waitlist until after May 1st. What happens if a huge flood of admission acceptances come in on May 1st!!! Then they’ll be screwed…</p>
<p>@ collegehappy: Duke did the same thing last year… they began admitting people off the waitlist during the last week of April (as I was still deciding between Duke and Rice).</p>
<p>Rice probably admitted very conservatively this year, anyway.</p>
<p>And no, they won’t be screwed… this is where some sophisticated statistical techniques come into play. They know what they are doing.</p>
<p>Curious those of you who got off the WL – did y’all apply for FA?</p>
<p>Does accepting people off waitlists count towards the acceptance rate? I believe not right? A lot of schools seem to be keeping huge waitlists and some accepting even more the May deadline. I know Duke did that this year.</p>
<p>Rice was probably trying to avoid over-enrolling -something that has happened in years past. Last year, less than 5 students were taken off the waitlist, and that was for the capped architecture program.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t. There’s a separate % admitted from waiting list rate.</p>
<p>IMO Duke made a pretty poor decision. Making the waiting list so gigantic is just going to make a torturous wait for the vast majority of prospective students who won’t be admitted.</p>
<p>Anyways, Rice probably wasn’t able to predict their yield this year without uncertainty, so their relying more on their waiting list more than usual.</p>
<p>So for those folks admitted off the waitlist already this year, what was the trick? Did you use the “open carry” laws in Texas while making a person inquiry at the Admissions office?</p>
<p>Of the two who have reported thus far, neither asked for FA. I think that’s the key with the WL.</p>
<p>I applied for FA and made it off the list.</p>
<p>wrote a very creative, quirky letter which I feel greatly helped.</p>