Round 4 of waiting tomorrow? lol
I’m planning on just waiting until Friday at this point.
So I guess I will see you guys back here same time tomorrow?
Guess so.
Rice says they release financial aid packages with decisions, so maybe it’s all the IDOC backup that’s making things take longer than usual? I don’t know, but the waiting is killer! Good luck everyone!
been lurking around for two days I’m gonna hop on the waiting train as well. But hey, at least most of you aren’t waiting for Rice/Baylor, which comes out “sometime in late April”…
@Nobody426 But that’s only if you get the interview in the first place, and those notifications come out with the regular admission decisions.
@sdalss That’s a good theory. I bet that’s it. It was just a few days ago they finally processed our final IDOC info. And I’d submitted second week of February!
@BSMDorBust WAIT. I’ll get to know whether I will be considered for a Rice/Baylor interview when RD decisions come out? And then the actual scholars will be notified late April? Is that how it is?
Sorry, I can’t find much info about this otherwise online… (I was interviewed by a Rice/Baylor alumni a while back, though.)
@Nobody426 - So you were already contacted and asked to interview for Rice/Baylor BS/MD program? Does that mean if an applicant was not asked to interview already they are not be considered for this program?
@Nobody426 Yes.
@learn2019 I’m assuming Nobody426 wasn’t contacted yet for an interview. His Rice UG interview probably just happened to be with a Rice/Baylor alumni, so don’t worry you still have a chance. The interview notifications should come with the admission decisions for Rice.
Thanks and good luck to everyone!
Just out of curiosity, which do you believe is worse: being rejected or being deferred?
Rejected. At least there is a chance if you’re deferred.
On the one hand, being deferred is horrible, especially if it’s a school that rarely rejects EA applicants because you know that there’s such a tiny chance of actually getting in during the RD round and you wish that they just rejected you outright and smashed your dreams in December instead of stringing them out. Buuuuut, being deferred does keep hope alive and it makes you feel way better if you end up deferred rather than outright rejected, just like a waitlist feels better than a rejection as well. Basically, it makes you feel like you weren’t an idiot for bothering to apply.
I agree with Callethiel. For example, UChicago deferred nearly everybody in the EA round, myself included, and then and I was rejected a few weeks ago.
Even students with stats much lower than the average for UChicago were deferred in the EA round.
However, I had also been deferred at Colorado College, and they only defer about 10% of applicants in the EA round. At least I felt then I had a chance, since I was in a smaller pool and I felt my application was seriously considered even if I did end up being rejected.
Rejected or accepted. I hate being wait listed/deferred. Uncertainty kills me.
For perspective, in 2013, Rice accepted just 4 students off the wait list. This was out of 2700+ offered spots and 1400 students who accepted their spot. The link to this data is somewhere far back in the comments on this post (sorry, but I don’t feel like searching for it).
something funny to kill time before tomorrow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1HnP7ce7U
Waitlists are horrible, especially when they admit so few. I got waitlisted at WUSTL already. Please Rice, don’t do it.