Someone just posted this in RD thread. “Our enrollment staff has been working overtime to evaluate over 27,000 applications this year for the approximately 950 places in the entering class.” Rice President
Do you understand folks, this means 3.5%?
You are forgetting that not everyone offered admission will attend.
Rice’s yield for class of 2023 was about 41%, for class of 2022 37%. So to enroll a class of 950, and if Rice assumes a yield of 41%, they will offer admission to about 2,317 students. That would be an acceptance rate of about 8.6%, assuming the 27,000 in the OP is correct.
Wouldn’t yield go higher as more can afford to admit with better aid?
I think you mean yield may be higher this year due to the new fin aid policy. It very well might, but for us outsiders, the best estimates we can make are based on actual history.
You are right about yield going higher. I fixed it. I doubt they’ll accept more than 1700 as higher number can lead to over enrollment possibility.
There’s an article posted on The Rice Thresher saying the acceptance rate this year was 8.7%. 27,000 applicants, 2,364 accepted.
I am absolutely terrified of over enrollment, ~1950 RD acceptees for ~550 remaining spots…
wow, this is a dramatic decrease ( from 16% to 8%). 8% rate usually is from the tier one level colleges. is this all related to Rice tuition free new policy came out last year?
@ifonlyrice Yeah, that sounds like a problem.
People love free stuff. It’s resulted in many more applications to all the elite schools…for example Brown Promise did the same thing. Results in large increases in application numbers and since the school don’t increase class size the acceptance rate just decreases.
@ifonlyrice colleges are pretty adapt at predicting yield. Remember that most of those RD acceptances probably have a few other great choices and not all of them will choose Rice. Last year they still took 17 off the waitlist, not a lot to be sure but more than 0.
Hopefully there will be some admitted from the wait list this year. Rice took 17 off the wait list for the Class of 2021 after 17 beds opened. The class was overenrolled, and Rice offered $$ incentives to upperclassmen to move off campus or overcrowd their rooms. More students took the $$ incentive than needed so there were 17 extra spaces. Rice then pulled 17 from the wait list. Wait list info for the Class of 2022 has not been updated in the CDS yet. http://www.ricethresher.org/article/2017/08/high-yield-causes-bed-shortages
I heard that no one came off the wait list for class of 2022. About 960 kids matriculated - they were originally targeting 930 - but 960 is easily accommodated. One of the parents on the FB page reported that their student’s college is holding more freshmen rooms than usual in that college in case the class is on the larger size.