<p>Hmmm. Haven't heard of any. This year my school is sending students to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Emory, Columbia, and Brown. We will probably hear from more next week. </p>
<p>MANY students applied from my school, NONE accepted. What's the deal??</p>
<p>My son runs in the brainiac crowd at his Houston high school, but they don’t talk about college acceptances very much. I believe (and I may be wrong), we have one who made the Rice waitlist. (Rice does tend to take our gifted athletes over our academically gifted and our school does produce the gifted athletes like a machine.) But…Rice has been very up front and transparent about their goal of improving geographic diversity. They are literally inundated with applications from Texans and especially Houstonians and there is no room for them all. For that reason, our students have always been told to consider Rice an extreme reach.</p>
<p>I know a bunch of people that got accepted, me included, but don’t beat yourself over it. The Rice application was especially ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>^lol sourlemon. My son said something similar…not those exact words. I have a feeling he may have ‘phoned it in’ on that supplemental essay. He complained incessantly about it. And he really did not want to go college in Houston, so I’m not even sure why he applied.</p>
<p>Rice is indeed trying to shake its localized reputation. Unfortunately, this means that some local applicants get passed over despite excellent stats.</p>
<p>That being said, there will be a lot of Houston kids in this freshman class. It will be a low percent relative to those who applied, but still a commendable number nonetheless.</p>
<p>My daughter and a close friend did get accepted. The friend may attend Stanford, if a merit scholarship from Rice is inadequate.
My daughter is up for a full-tuition scholarship at USC. She may end up there.
I can’t believe the costs are so high.
Graduating from Rice in 1984, I only owed $4K and Rice was a perennual best buy.
(My cousin was rejected by Rice a few years back. She instead attended Columbia, followed by University of Chicago Law. A friend of my brother was rejected by Rice; and instead attended Duke University. He went on to UT Southwestern Medical School.)
With the increased enrollment of 30%, I thought it would be easier to get into Rice. I was wrong. Too bad Rice Baylor merger did not pan out. With a medical school and a law school, Rice reputation would dramatically rise. It is already more selective than many other top tier schools.</p>
<p>i got in along with 6 other people at my school</p>
<p>Me and four of my friends will be attending (all Houston), plus six others at my school who will not.</p>
<p>To be Honest I think I quite liked the Rice supplement essay, the main one at least (the longer one). It was a refreshing supplement from the usual “why do you like your major and why this school” variations. </p>
<p>I was accepted, but I am an international student (from Houston and US citizen though, not sure if that effects it at all) and I was accepted and I am enrolled. </p>
<p>I think that the main thing they wanted from that essay (which was something about personal background and stuff) was for you to provide a unique “take” on how you could contribute to Rice’s community background. It is after all a very tight-knit, collaborative, warm school (as evidenced by the emphasis on the residential colleges), and I talked about how my unique family experiences (father was an impoverished chinese rice farmer who became R and D head of Smith Bits and Services, Mother served in the Chinese army) would help me contribute my lessons of the past to the the new rice “family” I would help create/foster in the future.</p>
<p>Yeah, for the supplement essay you really need to think beyond race and class. One of my friends, for instance, wrote about how he was the president of a chapter of the Meg Cabot fan club (there are not very many male Meg Cabot fans). I like the question because it throws a curveball at students who are stat-obsessed, and makes them think, “What makes me me?”</p>
<p>God, the supplement essay drove me NUTS hahahaha.
i actually ended up crossing a lot of of i liked but didnt love (cough cough pretty much ALL THE IVIES cough cough) because of the difficulty of their supplements. So… i’m glad i stuck with it and did a good (enough) job on Rice’s supplement (even though it was the second-hardest for me, after Stanford’s), because there’s a good chance i’m headed there next year.</p>
<p>as for the Houston discussion, i’m not from anywhere near there. I live near DC.</p>
<p>Last year, around 10 people from my school got into Rice. This year…not so much. Maybe 3-5. There were a lot of international students this year, apparently.</p>