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04-28-2008, 10:36 PM
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| Academic stats is 1. on the list by far. | 
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04-28-2008, 10:40 PM
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#32 | | Member
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| In-state vs. out-of-state definitely matters. I think many Texas kids have it slightly harder when applying to Rice. I guess it has to do with Rice trying to become a nationally and internationally recognized university and expanding its alumni base. From what I've heard, though I could be wrong, Rice is 60% in-state? | |
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04-28-2008, 11:16 PM
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#33 | | Junior Member
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| Would backing out of an early decision contract from Rice affect later applicants? Whoa.
I dunno. Some of the applicants (quite a few) are the sort of student machines, know what I mean? The ones that don't have a whole lot of personality, ones who just look really good on paper. Not to flatter myself, but I was sort of the odd one out of the pack. My stats weren't all as high as theirs I don't think, but I have lots of extracurriculars, honors, and positions that I'm really devoted too, plus a couple jobs, volunteering, and having gotten through a really rough childhood plagued with fun stuff like drugs and alcohol abuse by my family, deaths including that of my MS stricken father, etc. I know I showed personality and passion, definitely. I don't get why no one was accepted this year also. I really had considered graduating early; now I wish I had. I could have gotten in last year. But! That didn't work out this year so I'll try transferring next year perhaps.
Yeah, I know you can't technically fail an AP exam. 3 is considered 'passing', though, although most colleges only accept 4s or 5s. | |
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04-28-2008, 11:17 PM
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| Actually this year they didn't let in nearrrrr as many Texas students as usual. They're capitalizing on the whole "Harvard of the South" thing and trying to balance out the student population by getting more out of state and out of the country students. That's probably what got me and my fellow students at my school denied. | |
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04-29-2008, 05:54 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
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| I believe Rice is currently 50% or just under that Texan students, although as the student population grows Rice plan to reduce that percentage (as in, leave the absolute number of Texans the same, and just increase the number of international and out-of-state students.) If you thing about how HUGE and populous Texas is, though, you'll realize that the 50% Texan is the same as about 10 normal size states worth of kids.  | |
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04-29-2008, 09:26 PM
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| Yeah, they started limiting Texas students this year. Alas! | |
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04-29-2008, 09:34 PM
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| literaturegirl -- I'm not sure your statement is correct; Rice has tried to limit the percentage of Texas students for a while as it's tried to build geographic diversity. The increase in the size of the student body starting in 2009 is intended to increase non-Texans even further. | |
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04-29-2008, 11:37 PM
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#38 | | Junior Member
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| Yeah I know that, this year they've just started doing that more. I talked to an AdCom person after all the applicants got denied from my school. She said that's most likely what was the nail in our coffins (in particular mine, because I was a mere humanities major). | |
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05-01-2008, 05:51 PM
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| things look grim for me then. lol | |
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05-01-2008, 07:45 PM
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| I'm sorry, but that really makes no sense to me. | |
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05-01-2008, 08:02 PM
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#41 | | Junior Member
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| "They're capitalizing on the whole "Harvard of the South" thing and trying to balance out the student population by getting more out of state and out of the country students. That's probably what got me and my fellow students at my school denied."
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I don't agree with this statement; Rice would not just reject qualified students just because they are from Texas.. Maybe they wanted to "balance" the cultural diversity, not geographical. | |
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05-01-2008, 08:04 PM
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#42 | | Member
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| Personally, I would think that, if anything, someone majoring in the humanities would have an easier time getting into Rice since Rice U is known more for its hard science and engineering programs. I really doubt the choice of major has a huge impact on an applicant's decision though. In-state / out-of-state probably has a larger effect since it's been known for years now that Rice has been slowly decreasing the percentage of Texans in its student body. I mean, Rice was originally chartered to educate Texas students only. It has expanded to accept students from all states for many years now, but it still remains a local school. I think it's trying to get rid of that image by distributing its eventual alumni base across the country and even the world.
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05-01-2008, 08:24 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
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| Exactly, RememberMe.
I thought that since I was majoring in humanities it would give me a boost but according to the people I talked to, in state residency was a huuuuge strike against me. Oh well! | |
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05-01-2008, 08:27 PM
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#44 | | Junior Member
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| I didn't have the best grades, and I got into Rice, and I'm from Houston...
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05-01-2008, 08:28 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
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| maybe i should move out of texas.
that would give me a better chance 
[sarcasm] lol. | |
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