I am a hispanic going into sociology at RICE University. I applied ED for the class of 2024. I have taken ten ap classes, but I did not perform the best on the AP tests. Out of ten, I passed nine and one three of those were 5s. I have six threes. I’ve had a two year internship at a local non profit, founded two clubs, a feminist group and a tennis team. I am president of the feminist group and team captain of the tennis team. I’ve been playing in orchestra since fourth grade, and I am now first chair viola. To build on the feminist group, I have a blog and am an ambassador for my region. I feel that my ECs demonstrate a strong interest in sociology, but RICE is crazy competitive. I do come from Texas, and many of my classmates have also applied ED. I have a 3.57 GPA and a 34 Act. I know I am not very strong academically, but I have been to every RICE Event in my city, did an on campus interview and an overnight. Do I have a shot?
Nobody has a great shot at rice. We are talking single digit acceptance rates here. And unfortunately I do think your AP scores and GPA will be strikes against you. You seem like a productive and good person and will succeed wherever, so don’t get too fixated on one reach school. Have some more realistic matches.
Good Luck to you. You have shown strong interest in Rice, and you have applied ED. That should boost your chances some. Rice is trying to increase its diversity. As an Hispanic female , you might have a better chance than someone with your stats that is not Hispanic. Slightly more males than females apply to Rice so being female might help a bit. If you applied to the School of Social Sciences, you might have a better chance than someone with your stats that applied to Engineering or Natural Sciences. However, Rice has a very low acceptance rate, and acceptance to Rice is a crap shoot for all applicants these days.
Be working on your applications to other schools so that if you are not accepted to Rice ED you are not scrambling at the last minute to finish other applications. If your school has Naviance, look at how students with similar statistics from your school have fared in the past. Rice is probably very familiar with the rigor of your school. Naviance will give you a pretty good prediction of your chances.
HI, I thought I’d update yall. I have been deferred from Rice ed, and I was wondering what y’all know about their deferral stats. I tried doing some googling, and nothing really came up. Do y’all still think I have a chance of being admitted? I’m still working on other college apps and treating this as a denial. I do intend to follow through with the deferral though.
Rice typically admits almost no one from the deferral list so you are wise to treat it as a rejection while crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. Good luck!
I know they don’t admit a lot of wait listed students after RD, but I’m not sure this is the case with students deferred from ED to RD. Have you seen these stats somewhere?
I have heard of a couple deferred students receiving acceptances, although I don’t know the stats. I think there is still a chance, but it may be small.
As long as you are showing continued interest in Rice and you update your application by March 1st with strong accolades, you should have a good shot at getting admitted. They will evaluate your application just like the rest of the regular applicants that apply to Rice, except, you will have a higher level of demonstrated interest.
I have never seen any statistics for deferred students later admitted. However, a few Rice parents have reported on the Rice parents Facebook page that their students were admitted RD in past years after being deferred initially. Rice must have deferred a number of applicants this year. @ricegrad has good advice. Presume it is a nice no from Rice. Send in your end of semester grades and a letter of continued interest updating Rice on any new developments, accolades, etc. then move on to your other applications in earnest. If you are admitted to Rice in the RD round, it will be a pleasant surprise.
DD20 also got deferred by Rice, and his stat is: GPA 3.98 UW / 4.82 W, SAT 1600, rank 45/710, regular EC and not much leadership, applying for CS. He may not get new material to submit again, so the deferral is likely to change to denial. CS is too difficult to get in, and UT Austin is still in review.