<p>I was denied freshman admission to Rice University, =(, but I plan on working super hard in my early college years and applying again as a transfer. However, one of numerous reasons that attracted me to Rice so much was that it pays a great deal of attention to its freshman, but undergraduates as a whole as well. O-Week is one of those reasons because it helps break the ice for everyone admitted to Rice. Its not your average orientation like at other colleges but a major event every year at Rice. </p>
<p>Anyway, since I won't be able to experience freshman O-Week, I was just wondering if anyone knew if Rice gave O-Week for transfer students that are admitted as sophomores or juniors. Please comment if you know anything. Also, if you were admitted to Rice this year, would you please list your statistics like GPA, SAT, Extracurricular activites, etc.</p>
<p>Yes they have transfer O-week</p>
<p>[Rice</a> University O-Week: Undergraduates](<a href=“http://cohesion.rice.edu/campusservices/oweek/undergrad.cfm?doc_id=12779]Rice”>http://cohesion.rice.edu/campusservices/oweek/undergrad.cfm?doc_id=12779)</p>
<p>here is the page for 2010 transfer O-week with info on how it works</p>
<p>All students go through the same O-Week, whether they are freshmen, transfers, or exchange students.</p>
<p>^^^oops sorry i was thinking of mid-year transfers</p>
<p>I believe fall transfers participate in O-week, but midyear transfers have a very modified version.</p>
<p>I just transferred this semester, and Wed. - Fri. of the week prior to classes we had an orientation from 8am to some time in the afternoon. Throughout the day it was mostly just presentations together with some downtime where people sort of had nothing to do. Rice did pay to have breakfast and lunch catered Wed. and Thurs. but just breakfast on Fri.; on Wed. Rice paid for everyone to go eat out at a restaurant and on Thurs. night the RAs at my college made dinner (I don’t know about the other colleges).</p>
<p>Overall it was decent, and the students who were running it were super nice and helpful, but I don’t think it was really anything like the infamous freshman O-week I’ve since heard a lot about.</p>
<p>My only real disappointment is that the focus was on meeting other transfers rather than on the people we’d actually be living with. There’s only one other transfer living in my college, for instance, and I think we both were overwhelmed. But in the end it doesn’t matter that much; people here have been really accepting, and at the very beginning before I knew anybody I was able to go sit down at dinner tables filled with people I didn’t know and most people would almost instantly realize they didn’t know me and introduce themselves. I definitely had to go out of my comfort zone, but everything is just dandy now about a month in.</p>
<p>Great! That means if I do get accepted to Rice as a transfer, I will still experience O-Week. I’m a little confused though because Dorian said all admitted students go through the same O-week every year, from freshman to senior. But, ZSquared commented on how he experience a mid year O-week. How does it work then? </p>
<p>Zsquared, congratulations on your acceptance to Rice as a transfer! Would you mind having a private message conversation? I would like to talk about where you previously attended and why you didn’t like it there to the point that you applied to Rice. Also, since your still new and still absorbing all that Rice has to offer, as opposed to someone already used to the glamour of Rice, I would like to ask you how its going, the people there, academics, what your major is,etc.</p>
<p>Please comment me in this thread or message me so that I know you would be willing to.</p>
<p>Basically if you transfer in the fall semester you go through freshman O-Week. If you transfer in the spring semester you go through the mid-year O-Week (the one Zsquared described.)</p>