Does the Rice admissions office have a good sense of humor?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rice University
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<p>I'm not a huge fan of Rice's question asking about other schools I'm applying to, so I was thinking of answering it humorously by just saying "Beeswax Not Yours Inc." (in homage to the Office) Do you think that would be well received? Or would it maybe be construed as rude/defensive?</p>

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<p>Rude/defensive.</p>

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<p>Agreed.^^</p>

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<p>Beyond rude.</p>

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<p>Fair enough. I’ll probably just leave it blank or put some safety schools and one or two reaches. Thanks for the feedback!</p>

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<p>Just list all your schools. I know many people (myself included) that had a list with several other top 20 schools and still got in.</p>

<p>No benefit to playing games with this question.</p>

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<p>I had my daughter put her state flagship and a couple of schools similar to the school applying to. I don’t want them to know she’s applying to more than 9 schools or how different they are from each other! She isn’t sure what she wants and it buys us time should she be lucky enough to be admitted. She also needs to see financial aid packages. So I wanted them to feel there is some competition for her attention, but she is still very interested in the type of campus/vibe they are offering. It isn’t fair they ask that! But they will know eventually because they can see on the FAFSA everywhere you applied. Hopefully admission is decided by the time they look, however.</p>

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<p>redpoodles - this is assuming they actually use this information in a negative way. Which we don’t know. From my experience I listed Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, CMU and several other top schools. Rice ended up giving me a ton of money and I chose to go there.</p>

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<p>Antarius is right. You should just list all of your schools. Rice is ranked up there. They might even skew their financial aid offer to your favor if they see other top tiers in your list… Just a thought. </p>

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<p>I listed Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and ~5 other top schools and I got in fine</p>

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<p>Good to know. I personally feel it has no impact - plus Rice has got to be smart enough to understand that a valedictorian with a 2300 SAT isn’t applying to Rice only and a bunch of safety schools.</p>

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<p>Character is what you do when nobody else is watching! Nobody will check whether the list is accurate is not, but why start off your relationship with a college by compromising your ethics? I wrote a really good post about this once, but I can’t find it now. </p>