<p>Thank you so much RiceHopeful2012, I’ll look it to that.</p>
<p>Can you guys post stats and decision once you find out?</p>
<p>Less than 1 hour left!! Aaahhh!!! So nervous :/</p>
<p>Good luck everyone! Ahh, I’m absolutely freaking out!!! :P</p>
<p>if financial aid is too low, how can we go about asking for more?</p>
<p>Accepted - awesome!</p>
<p>If we got a merit scholarship, would we be notified now, or do they figure that out after the RD decisions are out too? I was really hoping for an Engineering scholarship. :/</p>
<p>I think the merit aid comes in the physical package, not the email, but I may be wrong. Or I may just be hoping.</p>
<p>Hopefully you’re right, and hopefully the package will come tomorrow. Good luck to you and anyone else hoping for a bit more financial aid.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure merit aid is after RD, but I could be mistaken. Fortunately, I got a solid amount of financial aid :D</p>
<p>Nice! Mine’s not too bad - but anything extra is appreciated! :P</p>
<p>Haha, of course, but I’m going to apply for outside scholarships to make up the difference, I don’t think merid aid is too easy to come by from a top 20 university.</p>
<p>^^^ I think I read somewhere that 1/3 students at Rice gets some sort of Merit aid, I could be mistaken though.</p>
<p>I think it’s the top quarter who get merit aid, but I’m not entirely sure.</p>
<p>Hmm, that would be nice, so far my calculations for cost of attending have included 0 merit aid, so that would be a pleasant surprise. Anyone got links to back this up?</p>
<p>[Rice</a> University Tuition, Costs and Financial Aid - CollegeData College Profile](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=731]Rice”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=731)</p>
<p>That link has some data
“Merit-Based Gift
Received by 65 (16.5%) of aid recipients
Merit-Based Gift<br>
Received by 144 (15.2%) of freshmen without need, average amount $16,083”</p>
<p>It says “freshmen without need”, so can financial aid beneficiaries not recieve merit aid?</p>
<p>I believe you can receive merit aid with or without demonstrated need. The first statistic (16.5%) seems to be referring to freshmen receiving need-based aid already.</p>
<p>Oh, my bad, totally skipped over that. Well, yea that’s a pretty small percentage, only 16%, and I’d assume some of those come from crap like the 1k NMS scholarship…</p>
<p>ESTHER shows that I’m deferred but I received an email “Rice Deposit” telling me that I’m accepted and I will have to accept my offer…that’s weird</p>
<p>I got in!! I’m definitely going to be checking my mail today (: Congrats to everyone else who got accepted also!</p>