<p>Does Rice only send out 940 acceptances to match the open spaces they have for 2014, or do they do like an airlines selling tickets and send out "940 + XXX" acceptances, knowing that they will have some cancels?</p>
<p>If not, do they only send out 940 acceptances and wait list the quantity they think they may need to fill the spots from the 940 that aren't used first first round?</p>
<p>Just interested in how they operate. Thanks in advance for your input.</p>
<p>P.S. Anyone have any idea how many students were wait listed?</p>
<p>Two years ago Rice accepted 2,255 people. They assume a yield rate of somewhere around 35%, although the yield rate has been rising every year for the past few years.</p>
<p>Last year only architecture students were accepted off of the waitlist, because architecture is a program with a fixed number of slots, and the initial yield was apparently lower than anticipated.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input, NY Skins. I thought it would be similar to a plane ticket as far as Rice making an “educated guess” as to their acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Guess we better not count on the wait list coming through for my son and start getting the housing requests in for his safety school, the University of Michigan.</p>