<p>So does anyone know how many Rice defers and what the chances are of getting in?</p>
<p>or what our next course of action is?</p>
<p>i don’t know, but i think i may cry</p>
<p>Send them updates on your senior year and show that you still have an interest.</p>
<p>Enjoy your winter break. Apply to other schools. Don’t worry about it until April.</p>
<p>sigh…this is the ultimate bummer for me - the decision still gives me hope but then I remember how incredibly slim chances of getting accepted RD are…</p>
<p>hey everyone,
does this mean our chance of getting accepted goes from ED’s 30% back down to 20%?</p>
<p>not to scare anyone, but i heard that of those deferred, the acceptance percentage is less than that of rd</p>
<p>Churd: weird, i heard it was easier than RD</p>
<p>i hope to god that is true… i</p>
<p>It seems like Rice would take into consideration the fact that you did apply early decision, which shows how interested you are in the school.</p>
<p>ohsnapitskira: yeah i guess i was wrong, it does seem like it will be easier to get in than rd… Im sure you guys got this, bit if not heres the letter that they sent to those deferred.</p>
<p>December 15, 2009</p>
<p>Dear ____________,</p>
<p>The Committee on Admission has completed a careful evaluation of your Early Decision application for admission. The final decision on your application has been deferred to the Regular Decision plan. We would like to consider your request for admission within the context of the whole applicant pool.</p>
<p>Your official letter was mailed December 15. Enclosed with your letter, you will find an FAQ memo for deferred applicants. Regular Decision notification letters will be mailed at the end of March. Between now and March 1, you may update any part of your application that would be helpful to the Committee on Admission.</p>
<p>We take seriously your choice to apply Early Decision to Rice and regret the disappointment you must feel. We appreciate your continuing interest in Rice and wish you luck in the Regular Decision process.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>Julie M. Browning
Dean for Undergraduate Enrollment</p>
<p>Dw guys it is easier for u guys than the rd applicants just finish ure apps and wait gl guys I hope I can meet u guys next year And remember they ARE interested u or else u wouldn’t have gotten deffered</p>
<p>Ironic… the date for the regular decision notification is on april fools…
well, even though it says we can update our application, i supppose it’s too late to take the sat again… so now what? write another essay? another letter of recommendation?</p>
<p>anyone know exactly how to update their apps… I made the mistake of putting my signature in the rice box thing and also i would like to update a few of my my activities and leadership positions…</p>
<p>it says on the Rice FAQ that deferred applicants can take the january SATs and they will look at them.</p>
<p>its going to be a very very long 3 1/2 months.</p>
<p>on the 2004 statistics, it said only 8 people who were deffered on the ED plan were accepted later under a diffrent plan. But I’m not sure how many people were deferred in total that year, and how many people were deferred this year</p>
<p>I know I’ve kind of been playing the high-and-mighty Rice senior role over the past few weeks, making fun of y’all for being so stressed about your Rice decisions and the exact minute they’ll be released, etc. But I was in the same boat as all of you four years ago, and I just wanted to provide my story for support.</p>
<p>Way back when I applied, Rice still had something called Interim Decision. It worked like Early Action, but its deadline was a month later. I think the idea was that if Rice could snag a few people a month or two before decisions for other schools came out, those people would start thinking of Rice as “their” school before they got any other decisions. But yield rates were about the same for ID as they were for RD, so ID was dropped a few years ago. But I digress.</p>
<p>Anyway, I had applied Interim Decision to Rice. I would have applied early, but Yale was still really appealing to me, and I wasn’t ready to commit to one school, even if it was my first choice. Who knew what I would think by May? Anyway, decisions came back in February, and I was deferred. Decisions came again in April, and I was waitlisted.</p>
<p>Now, you’re probably thinking, “Well, at least you weren’t rejected.” True, but three of the other six schools I had applied to had also waitlisted me (USC, Chicago, and WashU). Getting waitlisted by four schools sucks. It’s even worse than being outright rejected, because there’s no sense of finality. You’re wondering what’s the one thing you could have done to make yourself an appealing enough candidate to get accepted by even one of those schools. Everything you’ve done throughout your high school career is called into question — What if my GPA had been a point higher? What if I were 30 seconds faster in Cross Country? What if I had gotten two gold medals at Science Olympiad instead of two silvers? What if I had worked on that English essay instead of staying at the newspaper office all weekend? You find yourself wanting to go back and alter the past ever so slightly, but it’s hopeless. There is nothing you can do.</p>
<p>Yale had rejected me, and I had been accepted to Case Western Reserve University with a pretty decent scholarship and the University of Georgia honors program with a full (HOPE) scholarship.</p>
<p>I was pretty sure I was going to matriculate at Case, but then I visited for an accepted students weekend. It was absolutely miserable. The students there were miserable, and it was clear that they were a university that had carved a niche for themselves as a place for Ivy rejects. I was completely distraught — I had applied to Georgia just because it was the state school, and it would be free, and it seemed like the right thing to do. I visited Georgia the next weekend, and —*you know what? I could see myself there. Athens was a pretty neat town, the campus was gorgeous, and the school paper was one of the best in the country (at the time I wanted to be a journalist).</p>
<p>Now (and this is the part I really don’t want you to latch onto, but I know you will because you’re desperate to find any way that can get you into Rice), after visiting Case, I sent a letter to Rice telling them everything I had done during that semester — acting in a play, getting a job, etc. — and that if I were accepted, I would attend Rice. I mailed the letter, and I decided to forget about Rice. I bought a UGA t-shirt to wear on college shirt day, and I sent in my enrollment deposit. I was perfectly content.</p>
<p>The next day, I got a call from Amy Atcheson, my regional admissions officer, offering me a spot at Rice. I (obviously) accepted, but it was comforting to know that if I hadn’t received that phone call, I would have been perfectly fine at UGA.</p>
<p>Basically, what I want you to take away from this is that there is more than one good school for you out there, and the best thing you can do right now is enjoy your senior year and relish in the fact that you already have your app submitted to your top-choice school.</p>
<p>@NYSkins1
Can you please help me understand my deferral?
Perfect 1600 SAT
Both parents graduated from Rice, grandfather was a tenured prof
National Merit Semi Finalist, chose Rice #1
Varsity Soccer at a 3000+ person, 5A school
IB Diploma Candidate
Huge senior course load
My essays were so good, after my counselor read them, she praised me and had her husband (who works at Rice) put in a good word
Worked at a nuclear valve warehouse and a CPA firm
I build my own guitars and amps
Very traumatic, character building childhood</p>