How can they expect me to have my financial documents with the amounts converted to DOLLARS on the same date as the application submission (Jan 1st)? I didn’t even get the link to my portal until Jan 2nd, and now my application is already less competitive. It’ll take a good three days for me to be able to get the international applicant supporting documents to them.
Perhaps I should have done more non-academics-related research on Rice… but jeez, the other 18 unis I’m applying to are far more relaxed about this stuff.
My main question here is: Do most applicants submit all of those documents on Jan 1st? Am I in a minority?