****Rice ED Class Of 2022 Thread****

[slhogan]

Thanks for posting that, @great !

Summary of ED Class of 2022:

• 1,916 ED Applicants (19.5% increase over last year)
• 371 Admits (19.3% admission rate)
• 165 Texans, 165 US (including 2 from territories), 41 International
• Of the 330 US students: 1/3 Caucasian, 1/3 Asian-American, 1/3 Under-Represented Minorities
• 61 Students are low income (qualify for Pell Grant), including 51 Questbridge applicants

[purplebug]

I called and asked. They accepted 350 out of 1700 applicants, or a 20.5% acceptance rate. Not sure where the 19x as many applicants as they had space for came from.

[NYapper]

Does anyone know yet if they have given merit awards to ED students? If not, when?

[akshvenk]

I got accepted and I had a scholarship letter right underneath my acceptance letter

[grreat]

There seems to be a lot of confusion on the 19 number. The precise claim is stated here: “19 applicants for each place in the freshman class” http://oir.rice.edu/At_a_Glance/Rice_University/

All this means is that they have room for less than 1,000 students, but more than 18,000 apply. So 19 applicants for each place in the freshman class. This does NOT mean that they accept 1/19 students (which would be a 5% admit rate)–obviously they accept more because of yield purposes.

[Burke1]

How many were deferred? Does anyone know the exact number? Thanks.

[Burke1]

Also, is there a policy in place that requires Rice, unlike most other private universities, to accept half from Texas? There are almost none accepted from our state.

[Faulkner1897]

This is an excellent thread from last year that thoroughly discusses the Texas percentages:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/rice-university/1917174-rice-and-texas-in-state-representation-p1.html

Some highlights:

My take on this is just that Texans love their state and don’t want to leave so Rice just gets a lot more applicants from Texas, and remember in any other context Texas would be large enough to be its own country with maybe three of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. in Texas, and if Rice just takes it’s best applicants a lot of those best are from Texas just because there are just so many of them. Even a place like Harvard takes the majority of it’s students from the northeast and if you laid the map of Texas over, it would cover the entire northeast.

The most close comparison to Rice would be Stanford (based on your question). CA is the largest state in terms of population and Stanford like Rice admits almost 40% from CA. Why ? Because CA students prefer to stay in CA and Stanford knows once admitted, they will most likely come to Stanford (lowers admission rate).

The other schools you refer to Vandy, Duke, Emory etc. have to be dependent on other states to get good students. To put it in perspective… TX has 1700 high schools. If Rice admitted just the valedictorian and Salutatorian from each of its own Texas high schools they would admit 3400 students (Rice admits 2500 to 2600 students each year). Rice has a yield rate of 35% to 40% and a class size of 950 students each year. At this yield rate that would result in about 1200 acceptances which are higher than the whole class at Rice and Rice would not have a single out of state or International student. Now I just laid out a theoretical perspective as all top students may not apply to Rice from Texas but hopefully it points out the effort Rice and Stanford type schools take to reject its own to accommodate out of state and International students and to make sure the entering class has the diversity of thought, social causes, economic background, political thought process and race.

That tells you how selective Rice (and Stanford) has to be that students from Texas that are #1 and #2 in their 4 years of high school cannot and do not get offers for admission. Just another angle to look at the selectivity of Rice!

The percentage of Texans varies by year, and someone recently analyzed it (maybe on this thread?), but it seems to vary from the low 40s to the high 40s. I don’t think it is policy driven, though.

[nkkkkk1]

Hey, does anyone know how much having a sibling who attends rice will help early decision if my stats arent that good?

[YoLolololol]

@nkkkkk1 probably not.

[MaybeHarvard2022]

Is there a RD thread yet?

[Faulkner1897]

@MaybeHarvard2022
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/rice-university/2041366-class-of-2022-rice-rd-discussion-thread.html#latest

[jflan]

Got deferred

[jflan]

In past years, I know that Rice typically defers very few people, however it seems that this year, based on college conifdential posts and people from my school, a lot more people got deferred. Anyone else notice this? And if so, what does that mean for us deferred applicants?

[Houston1021]

Rice has a new Vice President of Enrollment this year that formerly was at Penn. Maybe she is shaking things up a bit.

[jflan]

Anyone know the deferral statistics for this year?

[helloitsme2323]

does anyone know if it helps an applicant to be from NY?

[Bellajack]

Any idea when Rice Owl Days for 2018 will be? I know the dates from last year.

[NYapper]

I heard April 11-13

[Bellajack]

I just called and they said they won’t release the dates until spring break…uggg…I have other trips we need to plan but can’t do it until we know the Owl days dates.