How’d Rice work out for you? I got waitlisted which is pretty much a soft rejection.
Congrats. Same.
Pandemic was an issue in 2021. Summer of 2022 presented plenty of opportunities and most of the hospitals/labs offered research opportunities not only locally but globally.
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Daughter was waitlisted. Congrats to all those accepted!!
$100,000 for one year or four?
Cumulative - 25k per year
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Congratulations!!!
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For a $78k/year college that is not much of a scholarship. Are you getting financial aid as well?
What are accepted people’s stats? Compared to a lot of the other college threads, ya’ll are pretty quite.
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D23 is accepted RD to Shepherd School of Music - Flute Performance, $37,000 Merit Scholarship.
Auditioned in person, visited earlier for a tour, interviewed with an alumnus virtually.
Projected Majors: Flue Performance/Sociology
WGPA 4.474
WNA 102.035
Submitted SAT 1570, one sitting
Class rank 3 out of 250
Attending small public STEM high school in the Atlanta Metro
16 APs plus Diff Eq and Multivariable Calc, AP seminar and research Capstone Diploma
Very strong ECs, lopsided to music, volunteer flute tutor
National (including NYO2), International and State honors
Attended EMF, BUTI YAO and BUTI Flute workshops, many masterclasses
Winner of several concerto competitions and local Flute Club Young Artists competition winner
NPRs “From the Top” Fellow
Published Sociological research on underrepresentation in Classical music education and industry
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Tuition at Rice will be $57 next year. So 25K is almost half tuition. With the Rice Investment (assuming that’s what this is and not a merit scholarship) they are pretty clear about what income level qualifies for what amount of a scholarship. There are a lot of full pay folks at Rice and I think they’d love to save $100,000!
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Our oldest child had the same scholarship amount when they went to Rice and It was literally the best school experience imaginable. 
Any money helps! And 25,000$ a year is definitely not nothing!
This scholarship makes it pretty close to in state tuition!
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S23, rejected biomedical engineering, 4.3 W, 3.9 UW, above average essays, ECs, and Recs
Daughter accepted from Illinois with nearly $70,000/year aid. Very grateful.
Gpa 5.25/5.33, sat 1570, speaks 3 East Asian languages in addition to English and related free selective summer camps and awards, programming language and related award and summer camp. Strong service and ok leadership. Hospital part time work experience. Applied for East Asian studies with pre-med track.
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Son accepted but without any aid 
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57 per year plus room & board, etc. uesC the scholarship is good - some ppl take on loans and then complain that they can’t pay them back! I am worried about that (for myself). So, for me, 25k after adding room and board and all is not enough for me bc I don’t qualify for financial aid and don’t want parents or myself to have debt. So, personably I do not think a 25k per year scholarship is great, but others it is!
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Rejected - congrats to y’all who got in!
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Waitlisted, Engineering: computational and applied mathematics major
Indian Int’l Male in CS + asking for half aid
3.97 unweighted, 60 honors classes + 9 APs (completed 6 years worth of HS credits in 4)
1570 SAT one sitting
Class rank 2/80
Awards:
- Rank 4 out of 250k+ in a national exam | Math competition: rank 50 of 17,000+ | 50% Merit scholarship from school | top 10/160 in HSA investment competition
ECs:
Non Profit initiative recognized by UNICEF
50+ fundraiser bake sales raising 10k USD
Shadow internships at 2 FAANG+ companies
research paper published in global top5 journal
patented algorithm
small-scale Fintech startup
founded school research chapter and TedXYouth chapter
Leader of 2-3 CS clubs in school and regionally
2 years Deputy Head of Stu Co
some small stuff such as a part-time gym trainer, a few workshops
- Excellent LORs and CommonApp essay. Decently strong supplemental essays
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I understand!! Rice has the Rice Investment and they spell out pretty clearly what income levels qualify for different levels of grants. A family income of &75,000 or less is full tuition and room and board, income of $75,000 - $140,000 is full tuition and $140,000 - $200,000 is half tuition. They take some assests into account but that is generally how it works.
Each college has a net price calculator that shows you approxiately what your cost would be to attend based on your income. Here is the one for Rice:
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