Rice and Wash U and BC

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected at rice…4.8 wgpa 1540 sat captain of a varsity sport 500+ hours of ssl and summer job also National merit. I don’t know what they are looking for but I guess my dd was not it.

I feel your pain. Very similar situation with my kid. It's truly amazing with this caliber kid can't get into a school like Rice. That has been our experience. Didn't have luck with the UC schools and others.

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Anonymous wrote:Cost of attendance without financial aid and merit scholarships. BC’s aid is worst.

BC $80,296
Wash U $76,766
Rice U $74,110

Maybe it's better my kid was rejected. Sigh. Looking on the bright side.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected at rice…4.8 wgpa 1540 sat captain of a varsity sport 500+ hours of ssl and summer job also National merit. I don’t know what they are looking for but I guess my dd was not it.

I feel your pain. Very similar situation with my kid. It's truly amazing with this caliber kid can't get into a school like Rice. That has been our experience. Didn't have luck with the UC schools and others.

+1, rejected, similar stats

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected at rice…4.8 wgpa 1540 sat captain of a varsity sport 500+ hours of ssl and summer job also National merit. I don’t know what they are looking for but I guess my dd was not it.

I feel your pain. Very similar situation with my kid. It's truly amazing with this caliber kid can't get into a school like Rice. That has been our experience. Didn't have luck with the UC schools and others.

My niece was rejected from Rice and ivies but accepted at Berkeley, USC and U Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:Cost of attendance without financial aid and merit scholarships. BC’s aid is worst.

BC $80,296
Wash U $76,766
Rice U $74,110

Maybe it's better my kid was rejected. Sigh. Looking on the bright side.

Rice gives aid to most kids, free rides if family income below $150K, otherwise partial. They are against student loans, used to be free like Cooper Union.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a Bostonian who lived in Houston for a few years and Rice is awesome. Fantastic academics, beautiful campus. If your kid is nervous about Texas or the south (as people here sometimes say) they shouldn't be - Houston is a great city in its own way, great food, year-round outdoor activity, really diverse in every respect, including politics.

Rice's relationship to the city is somewhat analogous to Georgetown in DC - not far from the downtown (to the extent there is one in Houston, which is not really) but grassy and surrounded by a lovely neighborhood with cute shops. And your kid won't be there for the worst months of the year in terms of weather.

This is the advantage of schools in warm climate, you are away for summer. You are there for most of the harsh winter at colleges in cold climate. It gets depressing.

I'm one of the Rice parents who posted above and I just have to say that the weather is lovely during the winter, yes, but it's quite hot early in the school year, followed by a somewhat rainy fall, which can actually include hurricane season. And then, of course, the end of the school year is also quite hot. And, BTW, Rice Village is cute, but it's nothing like Georgetown. Rice is a great school, but nothing is perfect.

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Only applied at BC, of the 3. In with 4 years guaranteed housing (must be the top 15% bc doesn't fit other categories). 1580, 4.7 UW, did not click Catholic. In at UNC, UCLA, Amherst, NE and Pitt Honors (merit $), and a few others. Expect rejections to start tonight. Didn't like WashU, wish we had visited Rice.

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Wow, got into UNC-Chapel Hill OOS??? Not a legacy? Double wow. And Amherst? Nice, sounds like your child has lots of choices. We were tempted by Pitt Honors last year, specifically because of the housing and support.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is $20k cheaper for full pay than expensive schools like Amherst and NYU, which saves about $80k in 4 years. Their financial aid is also phenomenal and other than top income families, most get some aid.

Amherst has a more expensive list price at roughly $10k more per year than Rice for 2022-23 school year but Amherst gives more generous financial aid per capita w/it's $3.7 billion endowment for a student body size of 2000 kids.

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Only applied at BC, of the 3. In with 4 years guaranteed housing (must be the top 15% bc doesn't fit other categories). 1580, 4.7 UW, did not click Catholic. In at UNC, UCLA, Amherst, NE and Pitt Honors (merit $), and a few others. Expect rejections to start tonight. Didn't like WashU, wish we had visited Rice.

Congratulations! What are your DC's top 3 choices and why? I'm also curious about your thoughts, especially cost, campus size & vibe, major and travel.

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Anonymous wrote:DD was WL at BC and Wash U but in at Rice. We are shocked. Can anyone tell me more about Rice? The more we read, the more impressed we are!

Rice is amazing. We are in Houston. Just back from a Spring Break trip to NE-visited Gtown, AU, NYU, BArnard, BU. And just re-visited Rice yesterday (rising senior DS). Honestly I am thinking what an amazing combination we have here in town. There were kids biking on the bike loop at 10 pm at night--groups walking around, the library is buzzing, hearing about how much focus is on the undergrad division. Yes, DC/Boston more exciting than Houston. But so many things are special.

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Anonymous wrote:DD was WL at BC and Wash U but in at Rice. We are shocked. Can anyone tell me more about Rice? The more we read, the more impressed we are!

Rice is amazing. We are in Houston. Just back from a Spring Break trip to NE-visited Gtown, AU, NYU, BArnard, BU. And just re-visited Rice yesterday (rising senior DS). Honestly I am thinking what an amazing combination we have here in town. There were kids biking on the bike loop at 10 pm at night--groups walking around, the library is buzzing, hearing about how much focus is on the undergrad division. Yes, DC/Boston more exciting than Houston. But so many things are special.

This. Visited University of Chicago, CMU, Johns Hopkins, Barnard and Rice. We made it a point to go on to each campus at night. It was a weekend and kids at Rice were coming back in groups after eating out (one said dining halls were closed on Fridays?), the campus was an amazing mix of being urban yet enclosed and beautiful. I can't imagine my kid walking around at 9:30pm in U of C and JHU.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rejected at rice…4.8 wgpa 1540 sat captain of a varsity sport 500+ hours of ssl and summer job also National merit. I don’t know what they are looking for but I guess my dd was not it.

I feel your pain. Very similar situation with my kid. It's truly amazing with this caliber kid can't get into a school like Rice. That has been our experience. Didn't have luck with the UC schools and others.

My niece was rejected from Rice and ivies but accepted at Berkeley, USC and U Chicago.

Good for her.

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DD graduated from Rice recently and had a wonderful time. She got a research position in psychology after graduation and is headed to a PhD program next year in NYC! She LOVED Rice. We can't say enough about what a terrific school it is.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD was WL at BC and Wash U but in at Rice. We are shocked. Can anyone tell me more about Rice? The more we read, the more impressed we are!

Rice is amazing. We are in Houston. Just back from a Spring Break trip to NE-visited Gtown, AU, NYU, BArnard, BU. And just re-visited Rice yesterday (rising senior DS). Honestly I am thinking what an amazing combination we have here in town. There were kids biking on the bike loop at 10 pm at night--groups walking around, the library is buzzing, hearing about how much focus is on the undergrad division. Yes, DC/Boston more exciting than Houston. But so many things are special.

This. Visited University of Chicago, CMU, Johns Hopkins, Barnard and Rice. We made it a point to go on to each campus at night. It was a weekend and kids at Rice were coming back in groups after eating out (one said dining halls were closed on Fridays?), the campus was an amazing mix of being urban yet enclosed and beautiful. I can't imagine my kid walking around at 9:30pm in U of C and JHU.

Rice dining halls closed Saturday and Sunday evenings not Friday. It’s located in a very nice part of town next to the Texas medical center, super nice residential neighborhoods and a cute village square nearby with many stores and restaurants. Very safe there all times of the day or night.