<p>@themaverick: For personal reasons. I think it’s improper to tell you, sorry. 
I think most int’l students can wait till deadline. don’t worry.</p>
<p>@anxiousmom: hmm… I hope so!</p>
<p>nothing… tonight has been nothing… monday hopefully… otherwise tuesday… or even wednesday… just not thursday… i wont be able to handle all the decisions on the same day.</p>
<p>rice is MUCH TOO LATE compared to other top schools. I personally think rice is quite arrogant to release results so late. Rice should be as efficient as WUSTL.</p>
<p>by efficient do you mean just waitlist everybody?</p>
<p>(This is for my DS)</p>
<p>Going back to your original questions:
- Applying to these colleges: Rice, WUSL, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, William & Mary, Vanderbilt
- Heard from these schools: WUSL (amazing!), Lafayette (Marquis Scholar), W&M (Monroe Scholar)
- Why Rice? Their residential colleges and pre-med</p>
<p>And thank you Churd23#74:
</a> I don’t think I could find this as easily as finding it here.</p>
<p>BTW: I’m guessing the info won’t be available until April 1st. That’s what I’m telling myself. If it’s earlier, I’ll just be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>OWLS
nope the efficiency I mean is to release results in early March.</p>
<p>Waiting is soooo tiring. Lol. Super anxious for any notification.</p>
<p>why is rice taking soooo long?!?!? i have a scholarship that’s due april 3rd and it has to be IN THEIR hands by april 3rd, not postmarked for april 3rd. and i have to have a proof of acceptance to send along with my scholarship. It shouldnt be too bad because its getting mailed to a P.O. Box within my city, BUT STILL like what is the holdup? im almost positive that they are done making decisions by now. LET ME KNOW NOW!! Rice is my first choice but waiting this long is ridiculous. i might not even have available housing at my other colleges because i will have waited so long to reply back if i dont get accepted to RICE!</p>
<p>@dawncoming I don’t think Rice is being arrogant. From what I’ve read and hear it received many more applicants this year. They are simply trying to make the best decisions on who they will accept. More applicants + same amount of spots = more time spent filling spots.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to condemn Rice or anything, but I don’t quite see how the “more applicants” reason works. I read somewhere (perhaps this thread!) that they had an increase of 5-10%. That doesn’t seem like it would merit releasing results a week later (last year released on the 23rd). UChicago, for comparison, had an increase in applicants of ~40% and managed to release even earlier this year.</p>
<p>yeah I absolutely agree with heinochus</p>
<p>COME ON Rice!! I hate procrastination!!!</p>
<p>Chill outtttttt</p>
<p>@DawnComing: totally agree. Rice is cool but not THAT cool</p>
<p>You all need to chill the **** out. </p>
<p>@Xuladude10: Just because you don’t know why the process is taking longer than it is doesn’t mean there isn’t a legitimate reason for it. Also, what kind of stupid scholarship is due on April 3 when most major colleges don’t even release their decisions until April 1 or later? If worst comes to worst, there’s always overnight post. :P</p>
<p>I know that it is hard to wait, but getting angry at Rice for releasing the results when they said they would is not fair. Now, if they haven’t released them by April 1st… :eek: </p>
<p>By the way, every year a student or two comes on CC and writes, “My application status says: approved. What does that mean? Am I accepted?” YES, unless they have changed their terminology, Rice uses the term “approved” to signify “accepted”. GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL! I hope you all get “approved”. :)</p>
<p>It sounds like Rice will release before 4/1…</p>
<p>Why do you say that?</p>
<p>Some years ago I had business with a catalog printer involving a problem they had sending out a Christmas catalog for a retailer. I naively suggested they should just send the catalogs out early the next week – and was met with open mouthed disbelief. I was quickly informed that if the catalogs went out so much as a few days after the competitors’ catalogs, they might as well have been thrown into the dumpster at the loading dock.</p>
<p>College decisions surely involve much deeper deliberation than Christmas purchases, but there is an important principle at play common to both, which I think psychologists may refer to as “primacy.” Simply put, that in any set of similar things the earlier thing to appear, whatever it is, is almost always more memorable and usually better regarded in an individual’s perception of the whole set of those things. How much more does that principle come into play in something as stressful as college admission decisions? Students and their families have labored for months, worried for months. As acceptances roll in there is great relief and satisfaction; and conversely, as they are delayed, and delayed, there is mounting anxiety, frustration or simply lost interest. Out of sight is out of mind. It would be virtually impossible for those reactions not to color the comparative perceptions of the schools that communicate their decisions early and the schools that lag. </p>
<p>The reality is that almost every “elite” private university in the country – Rice’s direct “competitors” for its targeted students – has already issued decisions. Indeed, by a quick glance at the other boards here it would appear that only Duke has yet to do so, and Duke has announced it will do so on Monday afternoon, the 29th. (I am discounting, of course, the Ivy League cabal and their 4/1 announcement agreement, as the Ivies are sui generis. Even those of us who simply prefer Rice to the Ivy League schools recognize that among students who have applied to both and ultimately are accepted to both, only a small minority will enroll at Rice – and that would be true even if the Ivies waited until late April to announce.)</p>
<p>The bottom line is that whatever the reason for Rice issuing decisions much later this year than it has in the last several years, it is putting itself at an unfortunate competitive disadvantage. Many Rice applicants are already looking at the websites and brochures of the colleges where they already have been accepted, thinking about or even sending in dorm choices, imagining themselves on those campuses’ quads, and in these wired times even communicating and creating relationships with other students accepted to those schools. </p>
<p>The final lap of this marathon is already being run. Rice has yet to enter the stadium.</p>
<p>yeah… just today morning i was looking at the berkeley dorms and talking to people who got in there…lol… for about an hour… i had forgotten my rice mania… moreover i feel cheated… most of my friends have either gotten into top choices. or got rejected from them and need consoling… me?.. im in the middle… people ask me… so what abt rice. and im like…April 1st… and they are like… yeah thats what they all said… but they all come out early… u sure rice hasnt mailed something?.. funny name funny school… and i want to punch them… sigh… come on rice… pls dont disappoint… or i might forget this was my first choice</p>
<p>@MilwDad, great post! I just wanted to add that the scheduling of April admit events is another important factor. For example, WashU, an obvious competitor of Rice, is holding an all-expense-paid event on the same weekend as this year’s delayed Owl Days, and the sign-up deadline has just passed. Needless to say, admitted students would not (and could not) sit around waiting for the Rice decision when WashU was ready to book their free flights to STL.</p>