Rice Fall 2019 Transfer Thread

thank youuuu i am super excited about it. a part of me is worried that i won’t be able to compete with my classmates once i get there or that i’ve idealized Berkeley for so long and i will end up actually hating it but we’ll see i guess!

I dunno if anyone would know this, but does a waitlist at Vanderbilt mean a rejection at Rice is likely? It’s my understanding that Rice is a bit more selective and my essays were pretty similar to both schools.

People have gotten waitlisted/rejected at Vanderbilt but accepted to Rice. Admissions are a crapshoot!

Yeah I guess kinda. Well thanks! Would love to go to Rice, or get off the waitlist at Vanderbilt.

Its Rice final week these days. Hopefully we’ll hear before end of semester.

Did anyone in here apply to Managerial Studies

https://financialaid.rice.edu/transfer-students

Financial Aid Award Notifications come out on May 1, so I assume that’s when admission results come out!!

wow exciting!

Are you sure about this???

@123ghost I applied to Managerial Studies, I’m not sure how competitive the major is tho

@studentex420 would you mind sharing your stats?

@transferrrrrrcc according to their website, that’s when fin aid comes out. I’m just making a conjecture, but it seems reasonable that transfer students will know their app decision by the time they get their fin aid!! Fingers crossed, at least

I did too. @123ghost

@123ghost

Stats:
College of William and Mary
GPA: 4.0 (mid term report 3.96) (18 credits both semesters)
Transferring to start as a sophomore (just finished freshman year)
SAT: 1500 (took in high school) (M:790 R:710)
Major: Managerial Studies

High school GPA: 3.61
I had transferred in high school too, spent 3 years in private and graduated in a public school in Houston Texas

I have taken 18 credits my first and another 18 credits my second semester.

Extracurricular:
Organizer for a Leadership program for underprivileged low income minority high school students the summer before my freshman year.
Regional chair for a national youth organization that organized camps, workshops, and lectures to educate youth. Region spanned from North Carolina to Maine
Volunteer chair for a national organization’s annual convention that had over 30,000 attendees
Participated in a 6 week long financial modeling course at a Private Equity firm in DC during my first semester, was 3rd out of 10 participants that we’re all post college full time business analysts.
Did another financial modeling course offered on campus
Only freshman on the executive appropriations committee for WM, which allocates next years budget for all clubs on campus. A budget of over $750,000
Griffin school partnership after school tutor for local Williamsburg middle schools for 6 hours a week.

Hooks: Muslim American. Can pay full tuition. From Houston

Recommendations: one from my Econ professor who knew my name and talked with frequently out of his 200+ students
One from a smaller seminar for an aquatic science writing course

Clubs: entrepreneurship center, finance academy, Muslim student Association. Griffin student partnership

Also applying to Cornell, Columbia, Uchicago, Northwestern, Upenn, and Brown

If financial aid is supposed to come out tomorrow then I wouldn’t be surprised if decisions came out today (or tomorrow). I could be wrong, but don’t FA decisions for transfers usually come out after decisions?

Assuming decisions actually do come out tomorrow, good luck everyone!

I called Rice, and they said financial aid can come out before decisions - we can get them anytime from now to mid June. They were not too friendly either…

Why would they give out financial aid before decisions … that’s just false hope

I knowww right!

Best of luck to everyone. Results please come soon!!