<p>I heard this from someone else. Just wondering</p>
<p>according to collegeboard - 54% - so, close to 58 i guess.</p>
<p>It’s a prestigious private university. Why the high percentage?</p>
<p>Perhaps because Texas has a high population as it is, and most of the top students in the state must be applying to Rice, given that it is the most prestigious university in the region by far?</p>
<p>Seriously, people. Search function.</p>
<p>the rice website actually says 51% but the president wants to make this number a lot lower starting with this years admissions.</p>
<p>It is high because Texas is a large state w/ a lot of qualified applicants that apply to Rice since Rice has a big name in Texas. The same thing happens with Stanford which is 40% from California</p>
<p>I would not be surprised if there were at least as many Texan applicants to Rice as there were from all other states combined. Rice probably has a higher yield among Texans as well since it’s close to home and has higher recognition in the South.</p>
<p>But just a reminder - Texas is a HUGE state in size and diversity. You could put 8 or 10 of those little northeastern states in it.</p>
<p>“according to collegeboard - 54% - so, close to 58 i guess.”</p>
<p>Collegeboard must have dated information. The percentage of Texans at Rice is in the mid-40s. Because Rice grew its student body, it was able to offer more admissions to qualified Texas students while also increasing the number of students from outside of Texas, both domestically and internationally. The percentage of Texas students went down although the number of Texas students was increased. Students from outside of Texas increased significantly both in real numbers and the percentage of the student body.</p>
<p>And yes, Texas is a huge state, as is California. Lee Iococca treated Texas and California as small countries when designing marketing campaigns for automobiles, because of the size of the population and sheer land mass.</p>
<p>anxiousmom and proudowl, that was really helpful! I was a bit concerned about how regional Rice seems to be compared to other universities of similar caliber, but it seems that it’s really in the middle of creating a more national/international presence. And Rice moves up on my list…
proudowl, do you have a source though? I just want to be sure. >.<</p>
<p>[Rice</a> University | Faculty | Researchers](<a href=“http://www.professor.rice.edu/professor/Entering_Class.asp?SnID=1124554076]Rice”>http://www.professor.rice.edu/professor/Entering_Class.asp?SnID=1124554076)</p>
<p>Here’s a link for the % of the incoming class from Texas. Overall, if you go to the main page of the link I sent you, you will see that 51% of ALL (undergrad and grad) Rice students come from Texas.</p>
<p>You can find some interesting information here:</p>
<p>[Rice</a> University | Faculty | Researchers](<a href=“http://www.professor.rice.edu/professor/Entering_Class.asp?SnID=491315975]Rice”>http://www.professor.rice.edu/professor/Entering_Class.asp?SnID=491315975)</p>
<p>I believe the overall percentage of students from Texas at Rice is over 50%, looking at all undergraduates, but the percentage if you just look at the class that entered last year was 45%.</p>
<p>A little history might help</p>
<p>For years Rice was required by the famous “will” to have a large percentage of students from Texas (maybe 2/3rds?) Someone from the Rice admissions staff told me that to comply with this requirement they counted as Texans A) all children of alums, B) all foreign service and military brats as long as the family had once cycled through Texas and C) Children of corporate employees who had once worked in Texas. Granted this was years ago, but some of this may be still at work in the stated percentages.</p>
<p>I think what contributes most to the high percentage of students from Texas is the fact that Rice isn’t as well known in other regions of the US as other similar schools. I’m from Atlanta and when I tell people I go to rice, the most common response by far is “Rice? Where’s that?” Exact percentages aside, the general rule of thumb is that half the students are from Texas and half of them are from the Houston area. Surprisingly, however, this doesn’t result in any cliquishness between in and out of state people.</p>
<p>“Surprisingly, however, this doesn’t result in any cliquishness between in and out of state people.”</p>
<p>I think a good reason for this is that the regions of Texas are so diverse themselves, you can hardly believe your fellow Texans live in the same state.</p>
<p>Sorry Sunshower, I haven’t been on the blog for awhile. To answer your question:</p>
<p>If you go to the Rice website and put admissions into the search function, it will pop up with the Rice Admissions link: [Rice</a> University | Undergraduate Admission: Home](<a href=“Office of Admission | Rice University”>Office of Admission | Rice University). Then click on “Apply,” then “Freshman,” then “Admissions Statistics.” You will see that the entering class of 2009 is 45% Texan. You are right. Rice is in the middle of creating a more national/international presence. The goal is to be about 40/60 while not decreasing the number of Texans in real numbers, just increasing the national/international profile to 60%.</p>
<p>My sources are varied: Chronicle of Higher Ed, press releases, school newspapers, school websites. I keep tabs on the top 20 schools and their strategies for remaining in the top 20.</p>
<p>I know that this is going to sound ridiculous next to all of your reasoned, intelligent arguments, but I would like to offer this, as a Texan probably going to Rice: only someone who has grown up here can believe that the climate in Houston can sustain life.</p>