<p>to everyone on the waitlist–Rice appears to take a lot of people off the waitlist–I think I saw about 10% in a prior year. And I bet the current accelerating trend of more and more applications per student–we are going to see dropping yields in all but the top 5 schools–and dont forget also–yields affect the wait list also–so if Rice takes 10% they might have needed to ask 30% to see if they want to come off the wait list. So, analyzing this, this could be a good year to “be on the waitlist”. (sorry I do statistics and estimating demand–I dont do college admissions but it is a very interesting subject on how to do the mathematical predictions on how many students to accept, etc)</p>
<p>Rejected 
really bummed considering I showed a lot of interest and my interview went well. My scores and grades were right in their range and thought my supplements were the best I had written… Oh well. Congrats to everyone who got in though!</p>
<p>Wow. So many talking about me hahaha. I’m honored.</p>
<p>Yeah, to be honest I’m surprised as well that I was accepted, while so many more applicants have stronger scores, stronger ECs and seem very well accomplished. (Not that I’m not confident of my own accomplishments)
Just a few weeks ago I thought that I wouldn’t be going to college anymore because the first decision I received was a rejection from my safe school Brandeis. I felt like I wasn’t worth anything lol. But Rice’s admission came as such a joyful surprise!
I really wish the best of luck to everyone who is still waiting for college decisions; you never know, fate might just throw a curve ball at you :D</p>
<p>^Brandeis was your safety school? Ooh, risky. But I’m glad you were able to get into Rice (okay, not really, but I’m sure it’ll work out well). I guess that no matter how many facts we know about each applicant we’ll never truly understand each decision.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I remember thinking my interviewer gathered that I was kind of an idiot. Maybe that tipped me into the reject pile.</p>
<p>^ Why do you say that? I’m sure interviewers are really used to nervous kids accidentally letting “stupid” statements slip.</p>
<p>i got into rice
and im glad dont get me wrong
but is rice good for anything but pre-med/bio/bme?
just want some feedback from parents or students of Rice or just anyone that knows a lot about the school</p>
<p>@chess</p>
<p>Rice is great in just about every subject. The engineering is top notch, as are all the natural sciences. I’ve also got some English major friends and social science friends, and they all think their classes are top notch. And honestly the social sciences and humanities have it a bit better since their classes are usually a lot smaller than the ENGI or sciences courses (15-25 students).</p>
<p>There are a ton of TAs, both employed by Rice (grad students or undergrads doing it for pay/credit) and those who volunteer with their colleges. All professors have office hours and most are approachable, and it’s pretty easy to get to know them.</p>
<p>Rice is very well considered in Texas by any employers, and any major is pretty rigorous and excellently taught!</p>
<p>ok thanks jumper, for some reason rice just came off to me as a school with mostly great bio-related programs</p>
<p>@kamnn1: This, I’d wager, was different. My interviewer, like me (as planned), was a computer science major, and I may have convinced him that I don’t know frog balls about programming. This isn’t true, but a few weak vocabulary choices and poor conversational organization may have hinted to him that I was nothing but talk.</p>
<p>Excellent music school, too. :-)</p>
<p>^ and architecture.</p>
<p>Rice offers strong humanities, that are interesting and fun, but yes, Rice is amazing in bio sciences/engineering.</p>
<p>@emberjed </p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear about the decision, but I can’t help but think that Rice saw through your numbers. As others have mentioned, Rice’s process is rather holistic. They try their best to look at every aspect of the applicant including the applicant’s personality. Sure, sometimes they get it wrong but everyone makes mistakes. And after reviewing somewhere north of 15,000 applicants, a couple mistakes here and there is not going to affect their student body to any significant proportion. From what I’m seeing at the moment, it seems as if every one of your comments is subtly trying to insult Elina855. Elina855 seems very accomplished and the numbers are well within Rice’s average. And Rice is lucky to have Elina855 on campus if she chooses to attend.</p>
<p>Again, I’m sorry to hear about the rejection but for future reference, try to watch how you phrase your comments. Perhaps your interviewer took note of it as well. You may not have any bad intentions but sometimes it comes off as such.</p>
<p>signing off the Rice thread 
good luck all you future owls</p>
<p>I’ll say this and nothing more on the issue.</p>
<p>I think that Elina855 can be very successful at Rice, and I think I could too, if I’d been accepted (or, hell, at least waitlisted and then accepted). This I don’t mean to obscure, for it’s what really matters here, and it’s why decisions from schools like Rice take so long to make and be released. Maybe I’m more caught up in my own decision - and thus less able to be objective - than I let myself realize.</p>
<p>Did she deserve to get in better than me? I don’t know if anyone can answer that. The decisions are indeed holistic, and I’m not trying to contradict that; I’m just surprised, based on trends of who gets in at the colleges at this level, that her qualifications, in their eyes, outweighed mine by a significant enough degree to not even get me waitlisted, which seems to be a relatively common outcome here, at least among those who are willing to post. As for the interview, well, I didn’t have anything to be upset about then; I was just trying to keep myself from looking like an idiot, which I very well may have failed at.</p>
<p>But no, I’m not happy that she got in and I didn’t, and I don’t think that will change. That said, this feeling will have less and less effect as time goes on, and I’m sure I’ll think about it less and less frequently.</p>
<p>@lauwai, good luck. Hope Ivy Day brings you good news on Thursday!</p>
<p>Just curious, anyone know the acceptance rate this year or any other stats?</p>
<p>@Savart
I’d consider making that switch, although the more I research about Duke the more I understand why you’d want to go there instead hah</p>
<p>@emberjed
I get exactly what you’re saying. The way they decide who to admit can be random and unfair to many applicants. And I’m glad you’re not one of those people that’s all like “Rejected but I’m totally good with that and so happy for all those that got in”. You’re being truthful about it</p>
<p>@evan3795: My email said that they’d been able to admit fewer than one out of every sixteen students. Even if they’d waitlisted that many as well and ALL of those people got in, the resulting acceptance rate would be suspiciously low. Rice’s acceptance rate last year, I think, was around 16%. I dunno, maybe Rice is just puffing up its scaly neck to attract applicants by appearing more competitive than it is. When I was on Brown’s online applicant chat, an admissions rep said Brown’s average accepted ACT was a solid 34 when it’s actually around 31-32.</p>
<p>In my school a B is 85 to 92 and an A is 93 to 100. I think in physics I’ll get a C for the semester, definitely not for the yearly grade. Should I worry about being rescinded anyway though</p>
<p>so what did ppl put for the image part of the supplement?
did ppl spend a lot of time on it?
i just put this
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and got in so i was wondering</p>
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