<p>How impressive does a 1600 look for the admissions committee and how easily will that get u into Rice? Will a student who got a 1600 kill the chances of other students (who didn’t get 1600) who are applying to Rice from the same city/town?</p>
<p>Also, does not having any National Merit recognition severely hurt your chances of gaining admission to Rice? At least for ED…</p>
<p>1600s are common among Rice applicants, and are regularly turned down, just like at Harvard (where 25% of applicants with 1600s were recently turned down) or Stanford or other schools of that caliber. Thus, the answer to your first question is no.</p>
<p>Answer to the national merit question, anyone?
bump…</p>