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:eek:I know it doesn’t seem to make sense - since you are the perfect candidate (and you will find a terrific school - maybe Rice, maybe Stanford, Duke or somewhere else…) But, Rice is trying to build a DIVERSE CLASS of students, and, unfortunately, Rice parents tend to have smart upper-middle-class kids who then apply to Rice. It’s a numbers thing - Rice can’t take all the perfect legacy kids - and they know that Harvard, Yale, Duke, Williams, Stanford, Univ. of Chicago, etc. will love them…</p>