<p>your fin aid stuff will be floating around... but u prolly wont get much more until everyone is admitted...</p>
<p>congrats to all u guys (and girls) out there!!! feel really happy for u ppl! u r juz soooo fortunate! not that i got rejected or deferred, but i didn't have the chance to apply ED at all... i'm international. could only wait till RD. but i didn't want to give up the ED app, so i got into somewhere else. such a pity, but i'm satisfied. hope u'll enjoy ur time at rice(my dream sch)!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): M-720 V- 710 W-700
[</em>] SAT IIs:US History- 690, Math II-700
[<em>] ACT:n/a
[</em>] GPA:5.06/6
[<em>] Rank:8/400
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.):MVP/all-state swimmer, newspaper editor, club president, national merit semi-finalist, AP scholar with distinction
[<em>] School Applied: social sciences
[</em>] Rice/Baylor Applicant:no
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs/Community Service/Work Experience: high school/club swimmer, volunteer swim coach for 4+ yrs, JSA,
[</em>] Essay: i thought it was good, and so did my AP english teacher
[<em>] Teacher Rec(s): written by my newspaper adviser, very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: don't know; probably v. impersonal in my big school
[<em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): n/a
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Texas
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): big suburban public school
[</em>] Ethnicity:white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):legacy
[<em>] Strengths: my extra curriculars, leadership positions
[</em>] Weaknesses: community service
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: soo happy to get in! i had no plan B, so it was a huge relief to be accepted.</p>
<p>Congratulations, tjhooker! =)</p>
<p>I hear you about having no plan B. Actually, I have been accepted to a few safety schools, but the distance between Rice and my second choice school is huge.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED (ED)</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section): M-770 V- 800 W-790
SAT IIs:US History- 770, Math II-780
ACT:n/a
GPA:4.0 (unweighted)
Rank:5/600
Other stats (Awards, etc.):National merit semi-finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Piano awards, Latin awards</p>
<p>wow thats like a hundred percent acceptance thus far. cool.</p>
<p>Rice accepted 145 ED students this year . . . approximately 28% of those who applied. An article in the Rice Thresher states that although the number of ED applicants was down, the overall number of applicants has increased (but the article doesn't mention what that exact number is).</p>
<p>Can you give a link to the article, please?</p>
<p>Sorry - That last link was last year's news.</p>
<p>Early Decision admissions decline
Mirroring a decline in the number of early decision applicants, fewer students were admitted through early decision for the Class of 2011.</p>
<p>About 17 percent fewer students were admitted through Rice’s binding early decision program, down to 145 students from 175 admitted for the Class of 2010. Early decision applicants declined about 14 percent to 507 from the record-high 587 applicants in 2005. Under the Early Decision program, applications are due Nov. 1 and decisions are mailed Dec. 15.</p>
<p>Vice President for Enrollment Chris Munoz said the decline may be due to national trends away from early decision programs. Last September, Harvard College and Princeton University announced they were eliminating their early admissions programs. Rice will not change its early admissions policies, which includes non-binding Interim Decision.</p>
<p>“There are other universities of Rice’s caliber who are also down [in the number of applicants], and the explanation that is being put out is that the decisions that were made by Harvard [has] had a sort of trailing effect,” Munoz said.</p>
<p>However, the number of interim and regular decision applications is greater this year than at this time last year, Munoz said. The target class size will be about 720-730 students, the same as it has been over the past five years, Munoz said.</p>
<p>Munoz declined to comment on the demographic information of this year’s applicants, but he did say the number of minority applicants increased. Last year, 5 African American and 19 Hispanic students applied through early decision. Both were slight decreases from the previous year.</p>
<p>— Amy Liu</p>
<p>Interesting.</p>
<p>Thank you. (:</p>