<p>I got admitted off of Rice’s waitlist on April 27 three years ago. By this time of the month they can usually get an idea of whether the class is going to be overfilled.</p>
<p>There are a lot of threads on this subject, since WashU and Rice have a lot of admissions overlap. I’m going to say what I’ve said in all of these threads. I have a friend who transferred from WashU to Rice. When another of our friends was transferring from Lawrence to either WashU or Rice, we encouraged him to write to her arguing for Rice. We expected him to write a paragraph or two —*he wrote six pages, single-spaced. I don’t know exactly what filled that document, but the fact that he was able to come up with that much content shows a lot.</p>
<p>Bit of a disclaimer: my friend who transferred really liked WashU. He really didn’t want to transfer, but WashU was cutting his financial aid, while Rice was offering him an almost full ride. So this isn’t some anomalistic case of someone who just didn’t fit in at WashU — this is a fairly typical case of someone liking one school, but liking another school more.</p>
<p>I think that one of the biggest differences he cited was that Rice respects its students. You can take that to mean what you want, but I think what he means is that at Rice students are treated as assets, not customers.</p>