<p>I recently got an email from rice saying that they were waiving my application fee (60$). Naturally I was happy to hear this and my immediate reaction was damn they must really want me. Now I've had a few days to think about it and I'm having doubts... Is this common practice? Does it increase my chances of being accepted?</p>
<p>i had it happen to me, and i was accepted and am goin there. but i got it because i think i put rice first on the national merit deal, but i'm not positive. i dont think its rare at all, but i'm sure they dont do it a whole lot. and i doubt it increases your chances of being accepted although who really knows in the crapshoot that is admissions? a kid i know got his fee waived, was waitlisted at rice, rejected by duke, but got into yale, so go figure</p>
<p>i recently got that same e-mail and yes, it was because i placed rice in my top 2 choices for the national merit competition</p>
<p>Yep, it's what they do for people who list them on the National Merit survey. It doesn't have anything to do with your chances =)</p>
<p>Damn I was hoping it was because they wanted me to apply :( Oh well.</p>
<p>Me too! waived application fee!! I don't really care if it's common, I'm only happy I have $60 less to spend on an application. :)</p>
<p>that's not true, i got the waived fee and i didnt put them on the national merit thing</p>
<p>I got another email saying they waived my 60 fee because of my AP scores... maybe they will just send me a check for the 60? lol</p>
<p>haha ya, same thing happened here... waived fee for national merit and again for AP's. Maybe if they don't do checks they can just mail me a voucher that i can turn around and auction off for $40 or so</p>
<p>I got it for AP "achievement" or soemthing like that, from an email. I wasn't even thinking about Rice, since it's in Texas and i'm a californian. Do you guys know if their premed program is any good?</p>
<p>i didn't get the email for a waived application fee even though i did put rice first on the national merit list colleges thing</p>
<p>"I got it for AP "achievement" or soemthing like that, from an email. I wasn't even thinking about Rice, since it's in Texas and i'm a californian. Do you guys know if their premed program is any good?"
Don't really know much about it, I'm going to try to go for engineering, but they do have a Rice/Baylor thing that you might be interested in. It is on their site look it up.</p>
<p>Rice has a very high acceptance rate, about 90% get in at least one medical school, in medical school applications from its students.</p>
<p>I got it for AP scores</p>
<p>how did rice know your AP scores, did you send them the AP scores?</p>
<p>^ Thats probably how they got the fee waiver thing. If you chose Rice as the top school to send your AP scores to, it gets waivered. </p>
<p>Is that true?</p>
<p>nope. I got my fee waived last year for ap scores before I ever sent them out. I don't know how Rice knows. But they don't send you anything, you just say you have a waiver on commonapp under the payment section.</p>
<p>damn you rice you are making me pay the 60 $ application fee even though you removed other people's 60$ fee when they didn't do anything special to deserve that and when i named you as one of my top two schools on the national merit top schools questionaire</p>
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<p>I...I'm sorry?</p>
<p>never mind i still love rice
i just don't understand why every1 else gets the fee removed and i don't.
not a big deal
only 60$
never mind</p>