<p>Mogrimoogle - you accept the scholarship and spot at your safety school now. If you get in off the waitlist and choose to attend Rice, then you withdraw your acceptance from your safety. That’s the way its done, and it is allowed.
Waitlists are unpredictable- some years Rice has taken 100 or so off the list; some years none. It depends on how many kids accept a spot in the Rice class of 2014, and Rice won’t know until May 1st how many commitments they have. And with kids applying to so many schools nowdays - and the economy in the pits - it’s hard to tell what the yield will be. Rice may take some targeted kids off the waitlist before May 1st (some programs are very small and accept a precise number of students - like architecture and the music conservatory.) I’m wishing “good luck” to those of you who accept a place on the waitlist. :)</p>