I’m a legacy but especially with ED applicants being so high this year, it probably doesn’t help that much. It helps to know that those that apply to Rice are all extremely qualified students, and if I don’t get in, it doesn’t mean that I’m not qualified just that I’m not what they were looking for.
Wait is the number of ed applicants the highest it has ever been this year?
@justwant2gradu8 REALLY???!!!
I heard the ed applicants were lower this year
Does anyone know how many ED applicants there were this year? In previous years it was about 1600, right?
I haven’t had to apply for financial aid, not sure what that means about helping/hurting chances, though. 
Ugh, I’m so worried, though.
The alumni I interviewed with said ED applicants was one of the highest it’s been. There’s a chance he could have been wrong.
@Nihilistic29 – Rice meets 100% of your financial need if your family income is less than $80,000 http://financialaid.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=38
Does anyone know the exact increase in ED apps over last year?
My counselor told me that number of ED applicants for all top thirty schools increased by a lot.
Did your counselor (or does anyone) know how many applied early to Rice this year and what the increase has been over last year?
I found these stats on Rice website: the class of 2021 ED applicants: 1603, admitted 329, admission rate was 21%.
I also found this website but have no clue what it’s saying
https://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?schoolId=731&classYear=2022
I read this article someone posted here on college confidential forum. Looks like most of top schools ED applicants went up this year. So far in my D’s class only one got acceptex into Upenn ED, the rest of them mostly got deferred.
Penn admitted 18.5 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2022, a dramatic drop from last year’s 22 percent ED rate and the previous year’s 23.2 percent rate.
Penn also received a record-breaking 7,074 early decision applications this year, a 15 percent increase from last year’s 6,147 applicants. Since the Class of 2018 applied, the early decision application pool has grown 38 percent, according to a press release from Penn Admissions.
See entire article here:
http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/12/early-decision-upenn-ivy-league-philadelphia-admissions-rate
Personally I think the ED admission rate wouldn’t change much, probably be around 20%-21%. but the number of applicants will definitely increase bc that’s just a common phenomenon. I heard UChicago # of ED applicants went up by 20%. so I’d say probably 10%-20% for Rice as well? Anyways, all college applications are getting more competitive.
Speaking of UPenn, two guys from my class got in… CRAZY!!! One of them is our student government mayor and has A+ for every subject all five years, and he is a legacy. The other guy got perfect ACT and other perfect scores and GPA, and he is discovering a cure for breast cancer. Both of them are Asian Americans.
Why does it matter if they’re Asian Americans?
harder to get into if asian american
Rice 
Good luck everyone!