I don’t even know if Rice is continuing it’s SOAR program as I get a bad link clicking an old explanation of it on Rice’s website. I get that SOAR is early and Vision is later and both are for high-performing URMs to woo them to campus (and I think both are good indicators one is likely to get accepted.)
Do students generally get accepted to one or other other (or neither of course, just not both)? I believe one applies for SOAR but gets invited to Vision, and wondering if going to SOAR precludes students from being included in Vision as they have already been introduced to campus.
If anyone has been to both, were they similar? Is there is a preference for one over the other (knowing both are unlikely, like everything else related to Rice admissions.)