<p>@EVERYONE GOOD LUCK GUYS!!! fellow rice applicants you all will do well and i hope everyone of all get in ED (and then RD guys like me get in too hahah) either way, all you guys are great so no matter what happens yall are all deserving</p>
<p>I just want to know and move on with my life haha!!!</p>
<p>3 days and 20 hours</p>
<p>How has it been monday for so long?</p>
<p>So when do results come out for ED?</p>
<p>Is it Friday, Sunday, or Monday?</p>
<p>friday (according to my counselor who talked to them and some people on here)</p>
<p>3 days… 17 hours… 48 minutes… I wish i had a time machine</p>
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<p>You could freeze yourself like Cartman did while waiting for the Nintendo Wii ;)</p>
<p>[Countdown</a> to Dec 13, 2013 5:00 PM in Dallas](<a href=“Time since Dec 13, 2013 5:00 pm started in Dallas”>Time since Dec 13, 2013 5:00 pm started in Dallas)</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
<p>I won’t freeze like Cartman, but I will when I see the Mailman! :D</p>
<p>I just called Rice’s Office of Admission about an hour ago. Here’s how it went down:</p>
<p>Me: Is there a more definite date for Early Decision notification?
Lady: It’ll be mid-December.
Me: So should I expect a notification this weekend or next Monday or what?
Lady: You’ll be notified within the next week and a half.</p>
<p>Yay. So it could possibly be up to next Friday. Ugh. I almost wish they hadn’t extended the application deadline, but the extra time really did help me be able to “perfect” my application to the best of my abilities.</p>
<p>Is it possible that they will actually notify us on Friday? Why would they notify us sooner than the former notification dateDecember 15thwhen they received applications one week later than they had originally planned?</p>
<p>Btw, I am a newcomer to this forum. </p>
<p>Aaron Adrian
Early Decision Applicant
From Rosenberg, Texas (35 minutes away from Rice University)
French & Linguistics Major</p>
<p>I am REALLY nervous. I feel I can get as easily rejected as accepted. Here are my scores:</p>
<p>Rank: 58 out of 360…I know :’(
Weighted GPA: 94.3 (100-point scale)</p>
<p><strong>SAT SCORES</strong>
OVERALL: 2010
Writing: 740
Math: 670
Reading: 600</p>
<p><strong>ACT</strong>
June 2013: 27
September 2013: 26
October 2013: 31</p>
<p><strong>SAT SUBJECT TESTS</strong>
French SAT Subject Test: 800
Spanish SAT Subject Test: 670
Mathematics Level 1 SAT Subject Test: 660
Mathematics Level 2 SAT Subject Test: 580 (Don’t judge me hehe)</p>
<p>I created a group on Facebook called “Rice '18 Early Decision”. Be sure to join it so that we get notifications when people post stuff.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/227012007476289/[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/227012007476289/</a></p>
<p>For you, it will boil down to EC. If you are doing a lot of community service, are in some school clubs, and hold some leadership positions, you’re chances are pretty good. You have pretty average academic stats, so it will be everything else that really decides your chances.</p>
<p>Thank you for your frankness, SgtDoakes. 
(I don’t mean that sarcastically hahah. I know it sounds that way)</p>
<p>Here is a rundown of my ECs:</p>
<ul>
<li>I was an exchange student in Bordeaux, France, for 10 months during the 2011-2012 school year</li>
<li>I am the president of the French Club</li>
<li>I am the editor-in-chief of my school’s first-ever magazine</li>
<li>I am, for the second year in a row, the Creative Director of the yearbook</li>
<li>I am the founder and president of a culture/diversity club at my school</li>
<li>I serve on the Junior Rodeo Committee for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo</li>
<li>I competed in the Technology Student Association and won 8th place in a Desktop Publishing competition at state level in Waco, Texas</li>
<li>I serve on the Congressional Youth Advisory Council for Congressman Pete Olsen</li>
<li>I am a member of the “Fort Bend Youth in Philanthropy” volunteer organization</li>
</ul>
<p>Needless to say, I do not sleep. hahaha</p>
<p>lol sounds like a healthy amount of work. Your EC seems pretty good. Of course diversity, the school you’re applying to in Rice, and a bunch of other factors will ultimately make or break you, but I’d say you stand a decent chance. I’m about at the same level as you, but I have a legacy to help me out. I don’t think you would be rejected ED. If not accepted, you will most likely be deferred.</p>
<p>You are so lucky to have legacy! I’m all on my own. haha</p>
<p>I like what you said about the worst-case scenario most likely being a deferral. As disappointing as that would be, it is much more comforting than a flat-out rejection.</p>
<p>I also have two “letters of support” from two Rice professors that I met with and impressed. One is from the Linguistics department and the other is from the French department. I also did EVERYTHING that I possibly could on campus. </p>
<p>Since September, I’ve visited the campus 7 times. I did the interview, overnight stay, Explore Rice, class sit-in, campus tour, information session, and, as I previously mentioned, the two meetings with professors. I also saw the Rice Players’ production of “Rabbit Hole”. I did all that not only to attempt to impress Rice and demonstrate interest but also because I love being there! I will find any excuse to go there haha. Even if I get deferred or rejected, I will still love Rice and will try to transfer there after my freshman year.</p>
<p>yeah same for me, I can’t really imagine going anywhere else. I mean, it’s the best of both worlds: Ivy League academics with a liberal arts college feel thanks to the residential college system, small classes, and only 4000 undergrads. Plus there’s Houston, which is pretty awesome</p>
<p>This probably sounds crazy to ya’ll but I’d rather be accepted or just flat out denied. Having to wait till March to find out if I get in would be awful. I mean UT publishes their decisions for OOS applicants in February and I’d probably feel like putting all my eggs in that basket. Of course, that is just me speaking from a speculative POV, I’ll likely wait it out if deferred.</p>
<p>I applied to Rice ED and am super excited for notification time! I just called the Rice admissions office and spoke to some lady, and this is how it went:</p>
<p>Me: There’s been a lot of speculation on the web that the admission notification for ED applicants may come this Friday the 13th, in two days. Do you think that’s possible, or do you doubt that?
Lady: My official response is supposed to be mid-December.
Me: OK. Do you know when the Rice admissions office will send us an email about when to expect our decisions? We haven’t heard anything…
Lady: I’m just supposed to say mid-December.
Me: Oook, thanks then.
<em>click</em></p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>Anyone’s thoughts on this??</p>
<p>I submitted my ED application to Rice on Nov 8, and on Nov 23, I got an email from an Assistant Director of Admissions at Rice titled “Request for Information” that read, “We are currently reviewing your application to Rice University and wanted to double check something with you before we made a decision.” (The name on my high school transcript is different than the name I applied to Rice under, because I obtained a legal name change and chose to apply to Rice under my new name.) The email ends with, “Please let us know immediately if this is an error, so that we can obtain the proper transcript from your high school.” I replied that it was not an error, and that I can email in supporting legal documents or bring them to the Rice admissions office in person, if needed. I was asked to email them in, so I did. </p>
<p>Do you think this is good news? I have asked several people about this, and the general consensus is that the email pretty much hints that I’ve made it to the “final stages” of the application process, because after all, if they wanted to reject me then they would’ve just tossed my application in the trash, instead of emailing me out of the 1300+ other applications they are reviewing. Right? What do y’all think? Your thoughts are much appreciated!</p>