Rice University (2025-2026)

[steady osprey]

let’s hope 🤞

*your hope

[unique loom]

Trust the process

[sand swallow]

the other ones remaining are the ivies

🥀 💔

[steady osprey]

do you have zero acceptances so far

[steady osprey]

real

[sand swallow]

I have one and it's way over budget so no

[steady osprey]

You got this bro

[sand swallow]

I hope

[honest knot]

please speed

[mossy path]

i need this

[grand shale]

pls come out

[formal moon]

real

they should release right now

[placid otter]

rice

i swear to god

https://tenor.com/view/rat-angry-mad-fist-gif-17190256965897179490

[uneven lion]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jjk-itadori-yuji-ltXRHWVSNDKNP63uNF

please rice i need youuu

[runic kindle]

hey if anyone from rice could give feedback, is it hard to avoid alcohol while over here?

esp if its related to traditions or any residential college specific stuff

ik rice is a wet campus but i hope its not super prevalent

[hardy dawn]

plsss rice break my waitlist streak

i cant be a waitlist warrior

[unique loom]

rice is a wet campus but as someone who isn't interested in alc/party culture at all, it's pretty easy to avoid

There's a lot more of us than it seems on the surface, and even during some of the bigger traditions like beer bike you have alternative activities/can still have fun and not drink

[hardy dawn]

i heard that rice parites r lit 😭

[uneven lion]

Day 4 of manifesting rice acceptance as a questbridge applicant

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

that rice rejection letter will look good on my wall

[steady osprey]

y'all b positive

being negative ain't help with anything

[formal moon]

yes !! positivity

[runic musk]

rice comes on the 25th right

[formal moon]

Although I wish they’d email saying when it comes out

[formal moon]

maybe

(probably?)

[hardy dawn]

i need rice to break my waitlist streak

😭

[formal moon]

real

YOUVE GOT THIS

Rice will pull through

[steady osprey]

Thank you Catie

[steady osprey]

is that the only reason you want rice 😭🤨

[hardy dawn]

no

i never said that tf

[steady osprey]

okay

[steady osprey]

no it jus came off like that 😭

[uneven lion]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kitten-kitty-silly-cat-silly-kitten-gif-26276762

[steady osprey]

What is this

[uneven lion]

moral support

[steady osprey]

fair

well the email should come soon?

[formal moon]

how does it feel to be rice bound and watch all of the RD people wait

[steady osprey]

they gave 4 days for Ed I so maybe they’re catting it close

[formal moon]

sure hope so 😭 I’m expecting it to be wednesday almost certainly though

[steady osprey]

well idk a mix of hopefulness and calmness idk. It’s different cause I’m hoping for y’all. It sucked getting rejected and deferred for me.

[steady osprey]

I’ll be here when it comes out if it’s not too late in my local time

[formal moon]

mm makes sense

I’m hopeful but a bit nervous

I think I have strong odds but everything is unpredictable with schools this selective

[knotty forge]

@steady osprey if you don’t mind me asking, did you get asked for any extra financial aid material beforehand? Sorry for the trouble

[steady osprey]

I don’t mind you asking but I didn’t apply for financial aid so I can’t provide much on this sorry

[knotty forge]

Ah, alright. Thanks

[steady osprey]

yeah no worries

[steady osprey]

Dude I thought I was 100% going to be rejected

[uneven lion]

erkgoat can you please read my supplemental essay🙏 id like some more thoughts on it

[hardy dawn]

yeah mb if it did rice has genuinely been a top school of mine something I've thought abt since freshman year. I got involved with the campus by volunteering for the rice neurocamp and also I've won competitions at rice hosted by undergraduates

presented research on the campus too

[steady osprey]

Js be careful with getting hopes hella high that’s what happened with my ed I and it made it worse

[steady osprey]

Yes ship it over through dms

[hardy dawn]

its just ive been getting waitlsited so it'd be nice to see a "yes"

[steady osprey]

ah that’s quite cool

[steady osprey]

yes

[unique loom]

honestly, that's so real

before I got my rice acceptance I had only gotten rejects or waitlists

rice was one of 4 schools I was accepted to (2 of which were local state schools) out of the nearly 20 I applied to

[steady osprey]

so @hardy dawn sorry for mis-interpreting

[steady osprey]

me too 💔 rejection and deferral

[formal moon]

real

been there done that

[steady osprey]

rice better anyways 🙄

[formal moon]

for sure

[hardy dawn]

no ur good it was lowk bad wording from me too

[steady osprey]

coolest thing is lowk the acceptance package

I loved ts

[formal moon]

what comes in it??

My favorite acceptance package so far included a charm bracelet and socks lol

well I guess those were 2 separate ones

[pseudo crane]

Hiii

[strong lake]

Should be 25th

They will probably announce the exact date and time on Monday when they return to office

[sand swallow]

I need rice to break my rejection streak

[still canyon]

you guys got this

[placid otter]

rice give me a chance

[still canyon]

IDOC request

[placid otter]

one kiss is all it takes

to fall in love with mee

possibilitieess

[sand swallow]

intl indian male needing aid

T-T

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[still canyon]

good luck!

[formal moon]

you look like all rice needs

lol

Good luck everyone, we land where we’re meant to

[still canyon]

so true

[formal moon]

trusting the process is hard though like lowkey I can’t do another 4-5 days of waiting

no fun

[knotty forge]

Oh, how long before the decision? Thought it would just be the tax returns

[still canyon]

i submitted all aid documents before i got in i’m pretty sure
but they give you your aid decision with your acceptance

[runic kindle]

Really? I’ve heard cause of how small rice and the residential colleges are, it’s a bit hard to avoid anything that’s dominant in the culture

But if alcohol is easy to avoid if you try to then that’s good news

[steady osprey]

I sent a photo earlier

here wait

.

[sleek olive]

rice is nice

[tawny heron]

my sister still has a pin they gave in her acceptance package 😭

[sleek olive]

what does it look like?

[tawny heron]

it's a little owl one

this was from like 10 years ago tho

pretty cute pin

[sleek olive]

one of these?

[tawny heron]

yeah smth like that

i'll see if i can get a picture next time

don't have a picture 💔

[sleek olive]

if I get into rice I might buy this

[tawny heron]

that looks fire

[sleek olive]

always wondered what texas heat feels like 🤔

[vestal cliff]

oo

[tawny heron]

BAD

💔

GET ME OUTTA HERE

💔

I LOVE RICE BUT THE WEATHER

💔

actually last week was really nice

but the temperature changes from 80 degrees one day to 60 the next

[sleek olive]

😭

[tawny heron]

like bro we're next to a body of water didn't they say the temperature will be consistent????

What's with this bipolar ahh weather

im dying

😭

,/3

💔

[sleek olive]

is there anything near you guys?

[tawny heron]

wdym like stuff to do? or like large bodies of water

[sleek olive]

like cities/town/etc

[tawny heron]

ohhh

bro

no

there's nothing

💔

[sleek olive]

all I can think of is buc cee's and surban neighborhoods

[tawny heron]

actually rice is next to the museum districts

so ig if u wanna visit museums

there's the hermann park

but other than that?

NOTHING

💔

[sleek olive]

were you ever exciting for college, one of the few things I look forward to is getting out of may

no more junes

[tawny heron]

true

june heat will kill me

it's ok

[sleek olive]

how's the food tho

[tawny heron]

it's not bad

Rice's food actually pretty good

tho we didn't find the unlimited ice cream in the cafeteria 💔

[sleek olive]

it melted

[tawny heron]

houston's food? hmm

[tawny heron]

LMAO 💔

so true

houston there's bbq

there's a decently sized chinatown ig

texmex

[sleek olive]

neat

[tawny heron]

like you definitely have options

[sleek olive]

do texans eat anything not bbq-related

everyone I know who lives there eating some bbq-adjacent looking food

[tawny heron]

😭 HELPPPP LMAO

honestly

you definitely will be eating some bbq

but there's a lot of stuff not bbq either

so

yep!

like can you really say you lived in texas without trying bbq at least once 💔

[sleek olive]

any food that's allowed to be eaten there

you'll get jumped for trying anything else

[runic kindle]

I rarely ever have BBQ

[tawny heron]

LMAO

💔

[tawny heron]

lowkey same

it's kinda expensive chat 💔

💔

[runic kindle]

Maybe if ur a full American Texan BBQ is fully in ur diet

But I eat my cultural foods more

[sleek olive]

I need this food credits, Rice I'm kinda foodless

[tawny heron]

LMAO 💔

[sleek olive]

gimmie examples

[runic kindle]

I’m south Asian so like

Biriyani, curry, nihari, haleem, stuff like that lol

[sleek olive]

ok something not bbq related neat

[runic kindle]

Yeah not bbq related

BBQ is alright but it’s not like a godsend like most ppl make it out to be

I like other foods more

[runic kindle]

Unless ur only from America and don’t know any better foods 😂

[drifting jolt]

I need to try South Asian food

Lowkey I've been meaning to for a while but

Never found the time

One day tho 🙏🙏

[unique loom]

rice servery food kinda goated tho

[drifting jolt]

I went for SOAR and they lwk js catered everything but I heard it was good

[runic kindle]

You should bro, u don’t know what ur missing out on

[drifting jolt]

It da looks so good

[nimble heron]

When is rice decision date please?

[unique loom]

no official word yet

[grand shale]

i need rice

pls

[sleek olive]

I will eat 500 pounds of rice if I get in 🥺

[bitter gale]

gotta catch em all ahh

[grand shale]

they have the #1 sports analytics program

i probably wouldnt go but having that as an option would be insane

defo would consider

[bitter gale]

ohh

[steady osprey]

I'm holding you to this

[tame pivot]

proof

[runic kindle]

when u open the acceptance letter for rice is it just the message and confetti or does it direct you to a video first like yale's?

[olive ingot]

letter

[steady osprey]

letter with confetti but the confetti is small in amount so read the letter

[mossy path]

i live 20 mins away from rice lol weather here is hell

[olive ingot]

it sounds so good

bro in md we had EVERY SINGLE SEASON in one week

now its like rly nice spring weatehr

but a few days ago it was freezing

we had snow and tstorms and tornadoes

and then before that it was close to 90 degrees

and the leaves were still orange a few days ago so thats fall

genuinely bipolar

[tame pivot]

the confetti is so low quality it’s funny

[tame pivot]

i be backreading the thread and i find it kinda funny

[sand swallow]

scary

[sleek olive]

gulp

[unique loom]

funny seeing you here

[sleek olive]

https://klipy.com/gifs/go-gadget

[tame pivot]

yeah I was interested after vc with erkgoat

it's also about time for Rd so might as well be here

[tame pivot]

it's even funnier because I didn't know about this server or the reddit until after I already got in

[severe crystal]

🍚

[hardy dawn]

has it been confirmed 25th?

[tame pivot]

I don’t think so

you will get an email telling you when it will drop

followed by an email telling you to check your portal on day of

[drifting jolt]

What time did it drop

For like ed

[hardy dawn]

@steady osprey do u know when ed dropped

[tame pivot]

ed1 dropped at like 8 am

ed2 dropped in the afternoon

[hardy dawn]

8 am is wild

[tame pivot]

my friends had to get me out of bed to get me to open my acceptance letter

[hardy dawn]

wb rd last yr?

@cedar smelt

[tame pivot]

after 7pm central time on day of release

(you can just google this stuff)

[hardy dawn]

7 pm is late asf 😭

[cedar smelt]

Ed dropped 6 am pst

I forgot when RD dropped

Def after school hours

[drifting jolt]

7 pm 💔💔💔💔

Wtf

[hardy dawn]

dawg i cant wait that long

[drifting jolt]

Like cst??

[hardy dawn]

yes

[drifting jolt]

Same

[hardy dawn]

5-7 pm

last yr was 7 pm

[drifting jolt]

Oh fuck no

[hardy dawn]

dudeee

u already got in REA

LMAO

[drifting jolt]

Nah but I still wanna get in

[hardy dawn]

dude I wanna get in rice so badly

ts is close to my home

[tawny heron]

Real

[tame pivot]

this and the fin aid is why I applied to rice

[sleek olive]

just eat some rice today

I can feel the inner owl coming out of me

🦉

[hardy dawn]

WW

[tawny heron]

Lmfaooooo

Inner owl

[hardy dawn]

do y'all know how many ppl get trustee distinguished scholarship

[tawny heron]

My sleep schedule is already that of an owl trust

[drifting jolt]

Like a few hours away for me

By car

[drifting jolt]

Me but everyday

[hardy dawn]

wait u got into harvard rea from tx?

thats fire

[drifting jolt]

Ya

Preesh

I know at least one other Texan who did

[hardy dawn]

yeah i got deferred lmao

[tawny heron]

Yooo nice

[drifting jolt]

Theres prob a few others

[tawny heron]

My friend got in rea too

[drifting jolt]

Oh rip

[hardy dawn]

WW

[tawny heron]

Me but Stanford 😭

[hardy dawn]

dude im deadah getting cooked this cycle

[tawny heron]

Nah bro

Rice got you

[hardy dawn]

I hope so 😭

and i hope its before 7 pm bruh

[tawny heron]

Trust in the owl

You got this

[hardy dawn]

dude its basically me vs my own school LMAO

[tawny heron]

😭

My school is lowkey a rice feeder atp 🥀 14 people got in last year

Like around 7 or smth idk got in ED this year

[tame pivot]

like one person a year for the last 3 years got into rice at my school

and it’s only the valedictorian

[hardy dawn]

DAMN wtf

[tawny heron]

Dangggg

[hardy dawn]

like 5-6 get in from my school every yr

[tawny heron]

Yeah like lowkey we just have so many rice people each year

[hardy dawn]

so its u right

[hardy dawn]

does anyone get the trustee distinguished scholarship

merit

[tame pivot]

only like 15% of rice students get merit scholarships

[tawny heron]

Even more get in but they’re like the vals so they usually have a better pick 😭

[hardy dawn]

wait thats actually good wtf

[tawny heron]

I have no clue lowkey

[tame pivot]

I mean I got in but I’m like rank 3 now

[hardy dawn]

damnn so they just choose HYPSM

[tame pivot]

I was rank 2 at time of application

[hardy dawn]

or t10

[tawny heron]

I know some do got merit aid but idk specifics

[tawny heron]

Yep

[hardy dawn]

WWW

did u ed2 or ed1

[tame pivot]

ed1

was not about to wait

[hardy dawn]

real

[tawny heron]

Valid

[hardy dawn]

i heard ed2 is like cooked

[tawny heron]

Who even does ed2 😭 like genuinely

No one I know did it

Is there any benefit?

[tame pivot]

people who got denied from ed1 from another school

[strong lake]

@steady osprey did ed2

[tame pivot]

erkgoat got denied ed1 Cornell and did ed2 rice

[tawny heron]

Ohhh I see I see

Thanks guys

[tawny heron]

Fire

[tame pivot]

this implies more than one Val (I assume 12 of em)

[tawny heron]

LMAO

Yes

How did bro know

[tame pivot]

go look at mutual friends

[tawny heron]

Oh

Liyan

Lmfao

[tame pivot]

yep

[tawny heron]

Yeah he’s a Val

Lowkey all my friends are going to rice 😭

[tame pivot]

all my friends going to tamu

[hardy dawn]

bro does rice really compare rank that much tho

[tawny heron]

Ooo nice! I have a few friends there too

[tame pivot]

fuck if I know,

[tawny heron]

No clue

But like lowkey

None of the Vals got rejected from rice before

[hardy dawn]

damn..

im rank 4

[tawny heron]

Ikr pretty crazy

[hardy dawn]

my val applied but he like lowk doesnt have many ecs

[tame pivot]

then again if your application comes down to the wire they gonna be looking at something to tip the scales

[tame pivot]

I had like 3 real ecs

[hardy dawn]

yo i hope im one of the 4-5 that get in lmao

[tawny heron]

You will

Dw

[hardy dawn]

yeah i remain hopeful since I really got involved w rice throughout hs but we'll see

[tawny heron]

Just a few more days!

[steady osprey]

Hi what’s up

[tawny heron]

Nah nothing just curious who did ed2 and why

[steady osprey]

yes

[tame pivot]

Swiss boy is awake

[steady osprey]

It is tbh

[steady osprey]

yessir

[tame pivot]

my steam finally unfucked itself so rivals is installed

[drifting jolt]

Rank dont matter

Rank is cope

[tame pivot]

true

[tawny heron]

So real

[tame pivot]

I don have to give a speech at graduation anymore

[hardy dawn]

i think rank only talked about in texas because of the UT austin auto admission but it really doesnt matter for other schools

[tame pivot]

the person who passed me up is genuinely more deserving of it

[tawny heron]

We have a whole video 😭

Cause it takes too long

[tame pivot]

top 5%

[tawny heron]

For all the vals to give speeches

[hardy dawn]

yeah

thats why its talked abt a lot in texas schools

[drifting jolt]

yeah I wans't top 5% and ended up getting capped from UT lol

[tame pivot]

it’s so easy to get top5% at my school

[drifting jolt]

It's actually pretty easy for my school too

(I say as I'm not top 5%)

but like I went from top 30% to like 6%

so it's prob not that hard if you don't start off on a bad foot

[tame pivot]

but also even the people who got auto admit to ut didn’t get their major so they still going to tamu or otherwise

[fervent vessel]

if u dont mind since ur doing ib can I ask what was ur predicted score to get in rice

[tame pivot]

he’s also getting scammed out of credit

[steady osprey]

Oh I did it because I was going to apply to rice RD and it is a good opportunity to take advantage of

[tawny heron]

Yeah UT was crazy this year

[steady osprey]

Even if the chances are technically cooked

[tawny heron]

Gotcha gotcha thanks!

[tame pivot]

I mean I was talking to unc and he said it was only cooked because the applications were cooked

[steady osprey]

oh yeah sure 40/45 with hl math aa hl chem hl physics and hl English. I think my extracurriculars + writing were better Tho

[steady osprey]

oh true right

[fervent vessel]

alright thanks

[hardy dawn]

LMAO capped from UT but get into harvard

UT is embarrassing themselves

[drifting jolt]

yea

and I got WL at MIT

[tame pivot]

imagine only getting calc 1 credit couldn’t be me

[drifting jolt]

💔

UT is trolling

[steady osprey]

broski

[hardy dawn]

fr i have a friend who got into MIT but got capped from UT

and WL from TAMU

[fervent vessel]

does rice factor in legacy

[drifting jolt]

I saw a tiktok

[hardy dawn]

yes

[steady osprey]

I applied to UT I would’ve def been rejected

[tawny heron]

Yes

[steady osprey]

yes but not as significantly as one would think

[hardy dawn]

its fine u got into rice

[steady osprey]

yes eggxactly

[tame pivot]

I withdrew my ut application in like December (ed1) but they still sent me an email saying I got into the school of engineering at ut

[tawny heron]

Lmfao Liyan was talking about you

[steady osprey]

LMAO

[fervent vessel]

was ur core +2 or 3

I have the same subjects and pg

[steady osprey]

3

[drifting jolt]

Same thing happened to my friend but with Harvard and Yale

he matched qb to Harvard

[sleek olive]

prob yield protection

[drifting jolt]

but got an email from Yale Finaid tb some "Welcome to Yale"

[tawny heron]

BRO YALE FINAID 🥀

[hardy dawn]

Nah UT is just weird with ppl who arent top 5%

[steady osprey]

7 in hl eng 6 in math 6 in physics 5 in chem 7 in history 6 in German

[tame pivot]

truth nuke

[steady osprey]

I am not soo good at chem 🥲

[tawny heron]

THEY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY AND CANT GIVE A BIT MORE 😭 🥀 🥀

I pray rice has better finaid

[tame pivot]

chem light work

I should probably eat something

[sleek olive]

isnt rice full ride for under 75k a year?

[tame pivot]

yeah

[tawny heron]

Go eat some rice

[tawny heron]

Yeah

[drifting jolt]

w/ typical assets ya

[tame pivot]

can’t, wisdom teeth

[tawny heron]

Noooo 😭

[drifting jolt]

ngl guys is it cooked if my AO called me and asked me why I wasn't applying to Rice and I said I am applying and then I asked a question and she was like "uhh idk I'll follow up through email" and then I lowkey didn't respond to the email cause I forgor

tldr I forgot to respond to emial from my AO am I cooked

[fervent vessel]

what pics did u guys choose for the rice box

[drifting jolt]

picture of me and sibling

[tame pivot]

robot

[sleek olive]

something from my childhood that I still endure all these years later

[drifting jolt]

when we were likje super young

[hardy dawn]

im deadah not getting any aid idk why i applied

[tawny heron]

😭

[steady osprey]

I ate rice the night of my decision lol

[drifting jolt]

do u guys think they care or

[hardy dawn]

nah they too busy

[tame pivot]

I got like 83k in aid

[steady osprey]

no

[drifting jolt]

fair enough

[mossy path]

man i eat rice every night how do i make this special

[hardy dawn]

damnn

the problem is we have assets...

[steady osprey]

yes they’re going to put it down on your file 😀

[tawny heron]

Same

[tame pivot]

how big

[hardy dawn]

ilke income alone id get a bit of aid

[hardy dawn]

uh like rental homes 😭

[steady osprey]

Eat only rice

[tame pivot]

goddamn

[hardy dawn]

yeah its over

[tame pivot]

Fried rice

[hardy dawn]

ima get like $500 in aid

[tawny heron]

Make a rice pyramid

[tame pivot]

or sushi or some shi

[tawny heron]

Bro 😭 literally

[drifting jolt]

Rice's finaid is p good

[hardy dawn]

dude im predicting a waitlist ngl

[tawny heron]

Noooo

[hardy dawn]

im actually a waitlist warrior

[tawny heron]

Lowkey kinda wish I applied more schools

[hardy dawn]

i got WL from washu with legacy

[tawny heron]

Opening decisions sound fun

[drifting jolt]

do yg know when VISION invites go out

[hardy dawn]

its fun + scary at the same time

[hardy dawn]

whats this

[drifting jolt]

Invitation only program for admitted students

[tame pivot]

my friends older brother (junior at tamu) got in to rice off waitlist but since no aid he didn’t go

[drifting jolt]

ngl idt I'd get VISION if I got in but js wondering

[tawny heron]

😭 like genuinely they sound so fun

[tame pivot]

soon enough b/c owl days is April 13th

[drifting jolt]

wow I js have a bunch of notes I never used lol

[drifting jolt]

oh I see

[tame pivot]

bro made notes

[hardy dawn]

ah I see dude its so expensive without aid

[drifting jolt]

ya from SOAR

[tawny heron]

That’s crazy

[tame pivot]

son I’m cryin

[drifting jolt]

well they're not mine

someone else made them

[fervent vessel]

is ts for interview prep

[drifting jolt]

no

just someone at SOAR took notes

[hardy dawn]

not when u get rejected tho 😭

[drifting jolt]

and then sent them to the gc

[sleek olive]

you'd done more prep for college then my whole private school ever has

gg

[tawny heron]

😭 hey trust

You won’t

[drifting jolt]

yo that's not me

[tawny heron]

Manifesting right now

[drifting jolt]

😭

[tame pivot]

my supps were created 3 hours before the supp deadline

[drifting jolt]

was sm1 else at SOAR idk how they even decided to do ts

[tame pivot]

trust me you can get in

[drifting jolt]

I did my supps in like an hour asw

[sleek olive]

atleast it something lmao

[drifting jolt]

I think I did most of my schools in about like an hour except for Harvard

[tawny heron]

Same for me except for Stanford 🥀

[drifting jolt]

just cause once u get a decent set of supps u can js reuse so hard

it's acc crazy

[tame pivot]

I know I did ts in three hours I got Google Docs timeline

[tawny heron]

Chat all my supps were just spinoffs of my Stanford one

[drifting jolt]

lmao

[sleek olive]

You have ever played college admissions w/ your life on the line?

[tame pivot]

no one proofread any of them I just fucking sent it

[drifting jolt]

yeah that's how it be

[tame pivot]

my ahh applied to ut tamu and rice

[drifting jolt]

the longest I spent was 12 hours

in one day

for my Harvard supps and PS

rewriting lol

[hardy dawn]

i reused one of my supps

[drifting jolt]

on deadline day

[sleek olive]

lowk forgot tamu was a thing 😭

[tawny heron]

Yep and it works! Hopefully

[drifting jolt]

I js locked myself in the room basically

it does work

I reused my harvard supps for like everything and I haven't gotten rejected anywhere yet ✌️

though I think that'll prob change in a few dyas

[tawny heron]

Did you only apply the 3 schools?

[tame pivot]

yessir

[hardy dawn]

do I even full pay rice over ut

[drifting jolt]

no

prob not

[tawny heron]

Same it works trust chat

[sleek olive]

cant wait for the megathreads to explode on ivy day

[hardy dawn]

would u full pay like penn over ut

[tame pivot]

work that out with your family

[tawny heron]

LOL nice

[sleek olive]

discord is going to crash

[drifting jolt]

if ur Wharton prob

[tawny heron]

I did ut rice Yale and Stanford

[drifting jolt]

Cas prob not

but also I'm not full pay

I'm on the opposite spectrum

UT would've been far more expensive for me than Penn

or Harvard

or Rice

[tame pivot]

didn’t apply to those schools because that costs an application fee

[hardy dawn]

ya cuz the aid is buns

[sleek olive]

if upenn is a garaunteed 6 figs out of college then sure

[drifting jolt]

yeah like I'm basically getting paid to go to Harvard

[tawny heron]

Bro literally 🥀 why did Stanford cost 100 bucks

[hardy dawn]

WW

[tame pivot]

I spent a big donut on this application cycle

[drifting jolt]

but I would have to pay to go to UT

I spent $5 in total this app cycle to send my cc transcript to Duke but they didnt even receive it

I didnt evne email them

I was oto lazy

[unique loom]

fuck ass herzstein

even keck is better than that 💀i stg herzstein has such tiny aa desks it's cooked if you get a final in there

[tame pivot]

true I was in there for some admissions thing and it sucked

[drifting jolt]

wow I js realized I da just spammed culture of care in my interviews and supps lmfao

[unique loom]

that's good

[tame pivot]

I think I mentioned that like twice

[drifting jolt]

I think my Rice interview was prob the best one I had

only one where I received extremely positive reactions lol

[tame pivot]

who interviewed you

[drifting jolt]

I'd say all of my interviews were p good tho

[unique loom]

^^

[snow crater]

good boy

[drifting jolt]

sybau

[unique loom]

an underclassman or an alum?

[drifting jolt]

Senior

[hardy dawn]

same the interviewer was so chill

[drifting jolt]

Shrey Patel

the goat

[drifting jolt]

did u have a senior asw

[hardy dawn]

u had a current student as ur interviewer?

[drifting jolt]

yea

[hardy dawn]

nah I had a graduate

[unique loom]

ohh wait i think i know of them

[hardy dawn]

wait why did some ppl not get interviews

[unique loom]

a friend of a friend of a friend kinda thing

[drifting jolt]

I had current students for some of my interviews

[drifting jolt]

oh lol

[tame pivot]

I had Mary Margret speed (president of will rice college)

speed I need this

[drifting jolt]

bro 😭

[tawny heron]

LMAO

[tame pivot]

I didn’t actually say that I’m not regarded

[unique loom]

will rice will sweep

[tawny heron]

Nah bro not about rice interview but I almost said “at rice” in my Yale interview 💀💀💀

[unique loom]

lmao

[tawny heron]

My mind was full of rice 😭

[drifting jolt]

fried

I didnt even get a Yale interview

so I'm more fried

[hardy dawn]

dude my friend did that for another school he accidently said "at harvard"

[sleek olive]

LOL

[tawny heron]

😭 they didn’t catch it ig(?) 😭

[drifting jolt]

I did this for my NYU supp

[tawny heron]

Or maybe my interviewer took pity

[hardy dawn]

this guy just had his harvard interview

[drifting jolt]

"At harvard" ahh

[hardy dawn]

LOOOOL

no shot

[sleek olive]

my dartmouth interviewer was trying to upsell me on claude ai 🥀 🥀 🥀 🥀 🥀 🥀

[hardy dawn]

wait watch u get in

[drifting jolt]

ofc I withdrew immediately

[tame pivot]

as he should

[hardy dawn]

bro it woulda been funny if u got in

[drifting jolt]

I started and finished the app in 30s

I deadass js copy nad pasted my Harvard supp

[sleek olive]

we wasted 30 mins talking about claude

[fervent vessel]

would you choose princeton over harvard

[sleek olive]

am I cooked

[tawny heron]

HELP lmfao

[drifting jolt]

but forgot to change "At Harvard" to "At NYU"

[drifting jolt]

maybe

I feel like

[tame pivot]

put the fries in the bag

[drifting jolt]

profile and values-wise

I have a lot more alignment with Princeton

than Harvard

but like Boston is so nice

I've never been to Princeton or Harvard

[tame pivot]

I don’t think I would go to another t20 than rice ngl

[drifting jolt]

but Boston/Cambridge area is super nice

I will say though service is a big part of my life so Princeton seems great for that

[sleek olive]

what other t20s

[tawny heron]

Lowkey atp it’s just whichever school would give more finaid for me

[sleek olive]

gatech maybe

[drifting jolt]

like Pace Center is p cool

[sleek olive]

I like private over public

[drifting jolt]

GT not a t20

[hardy dawn]

civic engagement

[drifting jolt]

I think

[sleek olive]

easier to bond with professors

[tame pivot]

nah I just like to stay in state

[sleek olive]

where does it even rank

[drifting jolt]

32

[sleek olive]

o

[tawny heron]

Chat I wanna get OUT OF TEXAS 😭

[tame pivot]

I think it’s really convenient to be able to drive home if I want to

[tawny heron]

The weather

🥀

[drifting jolt]

yeah

[tame pivot]

it’s not that bad

[drifting jolt]

Civic engagement was a big part of my app and it's a big part of me

[hardy dawn]

wait my other friend cooked himself for every school he put "at harvard" in the additional info section

[drifting jolt]

bro

[sleek olive]

northeastern 💀

[drifting jolt]

😭

??

wtf would u even need to do that for

[tawny heron]

Entire summer is just spent inside my house with AC

[drifting jolt]

addl info with specific school drop lol

[hardy dawn]

idfk LOL

[tawny heron]

What in the 😭

[sleek olive]

any internships?

[hardy dawn]

he copy pasted it from harvard and mentioned the school

[tame pivot]

see I was outside in the hundred degree weather doing manual labor

[hardy dawn]

in his circumstances

idek

[tame pivot]

a hat does wonders

[tawny heron]

😭

Idk man I think I’d die

[tawny heron]

Lmfao I did that from Stanford to Yale

[sleek olive]

what companies inside of texas glaze rice?

[tawny heron]

I caught it last minute

[tame pivot]

idk man you get used to it if you’ve been doing it since 2nd grade

[tawny heron]

Fixed the “at stanford” to “at Yale”

[tame pivot]

all of the ones in Houston

[tawny heron]

😭

[hardy dawn]

texas glazes texas

[unique loom]

oil and gas

[hardy dawn]

W

[tame pivot]

ngl Aggie network might beat rice in Texas

aggies get hired

[hardy dawn]

I basically used my pton your voice essay for rice

[tawny heron]

LOL

[drifting jolt]

what's the your voice essay

[unique loom]

rice does have good connections tho ngl

[hardy dawn]

did u apply pton

[drifting jolt]

oh wait I might've done that too ngl

ya

[hardy dawn]

i made it specific to rice tho

[drifting jolt]

is it community

500 word

thing

[tame pivot]

the best connections is nepotism

[hardy dawn]

its the diversity one

lemme pull prompt up

[unique loom]

You did diversity instead of community?

a brave person

[tame pivot]

true

[drifting jolt]

wait I might've done tha too

hold up

[hardy dawn]

yeah 😭

[drifting jolt]

I can't even remember what Iw rote

[tame pivot]

community essay so free (I think)

[drifting jolt]

The Residential College System is at the heart of Rice student life and is heavily influenced by the particular cultural traditions and unique life experiences each student brings. What life experiences and/or unique perspectives are you looking forward to sharing with fellow Owls in the residential college system?

I did this one

[unique loom]

ye I wrote that shit in one sitting while waiting for hotpot

[hardy dawn]

Rice is strengthened by its diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders and change agents across the spectrum of human endeavor. What perspectives shaped by your background, experiences, upbringing, and/or cultural identity inspire you to join our community of change agents at Rice?

Princeton values community and encourages students, faculty, staff and leadership to engage in respectful conversations that can expand their perspectives and challenge their ideas and beliefs. As a prospective member of this community, reflect on how your lived experiences will impact the conversations you will have in the classroom, the dining hall or other campus spaces. What lessons have you learned in life thus far? What will your classmates learn from you? In short, how has your lived experience shaped you? (500 words or fewer)*

different essays but similar concept

[drifting jolt]

I used the exact same essay

[hardy dawn]

i lowk shoulda done that

[drifting jolt]

for this

and the pton one

[hardy dawn]

yeah LMAO

pton ones literally applicable to both imo

[drifting jolt]

I only changed my last paragraph lol

[tame pivot]

I took one of my extra paragraphs that I didn’t include in my main essay and threw it into that supp

[drifting jolt]

everything else was just copy paste

[hardy dawn]

same

LOL

bro

[tawny heron]

this is so real

[drifting jolt]

great minds think alike

[hardy dawn]

pton essays were so clutch

ok but harvard essays lowk carried me

[tame pivot]

too bad neither of you are great minds

[tawny heron]

stanford essays were so clutch for me 💔

[hardy dawn]

since i did rea

[drifting jolt]

idk I struggled with pton essay a lot ngl

[hardy dawn]

I loved the prompts so much

[drifting jolt]

tragic

[unique loom]

out of curiosity have any of y'all came to do a class visit here at rice

[tawny heron]

lowkey they were so fun to write

like

genuinely

[hardy dawn]

yeah they were difficult to write but they like allowed me to recycle

[tawny heron]

😭

[hardy dawn]

FR especially the short ones

[tawny heron]

YEAH!

[drifting jolt]

I think Princeton has the best fit for me but the prompts were hard

[sleek olive]

yall still have a photo from the rice box

[drifting jolt]

Oh yeah

[tame pivot]

what does she mean by this

[drifting jolt]

short ones were so fun

[tawny heron]

and the roommate one was funny

[hardy dawn]

i was just fully quirky in this 😭

[unique loom]

campus visits include the chance to sit in on a class

[tawny heron]

SAMEEEE 😭

[drifting jolt]

went to visit for a school fieldtrip or smth

ig

igh

oh

[tame pivot]

yeah I didn’t do that

[drifting jolt]

or that

[drifting jolt]

oh yeah Stanford roommate was so fun

[sleek olive]

rice has acs right 😩

[unique loom]

im wondering if any of you sat in on one of my classes b/c I see so many visitors lol

[drifting jolt]

I feel like I had a p unique approach to Stanford roommate

it was an awesome supplemental to write tho

[tame pivot]

The most I did was fuck around with my freshman buddy and used his Id card to walk around campus

[hardy dawn]

did y'all feel like u got better at writing essays the more u wrote and the essays u wrote first were less strong 😭

[drifting jolt]

up till a certain point

like

[sleek olive]

pretty much

[drifting jolt]

up until November

I mean October

[tame pivot]

I wrote like 3 essays total

[sleek olive]

my rice one sounds like fire

[hardy dawn]

i feel like i only learned how to write like in november

[drifting jolt]

and then after October I just reused everything

[hardy dawn]

LMAO

[tawny heron]

help bro my strongest essays were the first few. my rice and UT ones lowkey kinda sucked

[hardy dawn]

dude i wish i applied more schools

[hardy dawn]

my ut essays were so trash

[tawny heron]

same 💔 how many did you apply to

[hardy dawn]

its cuz i was auto admit so i literally jus speedran

[tawny heron]

SAMEEE 💔

[tawny heron]

literally bro

[drifting jolt]

I just did like photos on my wall

[sleek olive]

atleast you guys wrote your esssays

[tame pivot]

I just recycled my qb essays

[hardy dawn]

11 including UT, 14 including 3 BS/MD programs

[sleek olive]

people in my class used chatgpt and ai

for the whole thing

[hardy dawn]

wbu @tawny heron

[tame pivot]

*used

[drifting jolt]

omg fellow qb person

[tawny heron]

help is that not a lot 😭

[drifting jolt]

yay

I hated my qb essays tho

[tawny heron]

applied to 4 🤡

rice, ut austin, yale, stanford

[hardy dawn]

I missed like brown, columbia, and some other ivies 😭

i literally only did t10s

[tawny heron]

kinda wish i applied to princeton

[tame pivot]

on a technicality tho I didn’t get finalist but rice allowed me to use my qb application

[sleek olive]

reaching for the stars I see

[hardy dawn]

yo thats fine tho since we're auto admit

[tame pivot]

that being said there is someone who matched to jhu at my school

[drifting jolt]

I did HYPSM only 👿

[tawny heron]

yeah

[drifting jolt]

jk

[drifting jolt]

oh I see

[hardy dawn]

is this guy rishab jain 😭

"duke is my safety"

[drifting jolt]

yeah sm1 matched Rice at my school

[tawny heron]

LMAO

"harvard is my safety"

[tame pivot]

the 2 people before me matched rice

[sleek olive]

how I feel going for rice

[drifting jolt]

I mean tbh

the only schools I submitted were like

[hardy dawn]

holy aura

[drifting jolt]

UMich USC Harvard Rice

before Harvard came out

[sleek olive]

need to prep max for that

[drifting jolt]

and then after that it was js like straight t10 spam

[strong lake]

Yoz

[hardy dawn]

LMAO dude I just spammed t10 then the schools w merit scholarships

[sleek olive]

every olympaid, research, and ec imaginable

[drifting jolt]

wait nvm I had A&M and UT asw I'm a fraud

[tawny heron]

i was gonna to but then got lazy

LMAO

[hardy dawn]

RSI and ISEF 1st

[tame pivot]

avg Texan

[sleek olive]

dont even see the point of isef

[tawny heron]

i looked at a&m's essays and chose not to do it

[hardy dawn]

RSI

[sleek olive]

most of the ioi's get cheated on

[drifting jolt]

IOI?

u mean like

International Olympiad in Infomratics

??

who is cheating on IOI

[sleek olive]

guess its a stretch but something like aime

usapho

[tame pivot]

hop on that Uil grind

[sleek olive]

sumac or whatever the stanford one is called

usaco plats

[drifting jolt]

bruh what

SUMAC is a summer program

😭

[drifting jolt]

USAPHO doesn't have very many cheaters afaik

[tame pivot]

mans just spouting shit

[drifting jolt]

AIME prob has a decent amt

[drifting jolt]

deadass

😭

js larping

spamming buzzwords

[drifting jolt]

USACO def has hella cheaters

[fervent vessel]

is ur hs a feeder

[sleek olive]

stanford math one

[drifting jolt]

I did see ppl selling SUMAC psets

if that's what u meant

[hardy dawn]

every competition has hella cheaters

[drifting jolt]

but SUMAC isn't a competition

[sleek olive]

yea that

[drifting jolt]

it's a summer program lmoa

[drifting jolt]

no

[sleek olive]

stanford math one is what I was referring to

[drifting jolt]

we did have two people go SOAR in my yr tho

which was pretty unexpected actually

one of them was the one who matched Rice and the other is me lol

I think we send more than a handful each year tho

[fervent vessel]

this is the fly in program if im not wrong

[drifting jolt]

ya

from what I've heard it's like

over 90% conversion

or smth

but I do know a few ppl who ranked and didnt match Rice or smth

but for the most part a lot of ppl in the gc who did apply did get in for ED1/ED2/QB

or got into a diff t20

[drifting jolt]

yeah I mean u can technically buy solutions for the pset but

admissions isn't only based on the score u get on the pset

obviously they wanna see how u think

and stuff

which is also part of the pset, which might not be likes uper clear/evident in buying solutions

[fervent vessel]

I believe rice fills the majority class w ed1/2 so rd is hard asf

[drifting jolt]

which is why buying solutions isn't good

[tame pivot]

like half the class

[sleek olive]

people still buy it for whatever reason

[drifting jolt]

maybe, but I don't think it's over half the class

and also they are expanding right now

so it's actually easier to get in rn

than in prev yrs

[tame pivot]

like 50-100 people a year

[drifting jolt]

o I thought it was a lot more

they're planning to grow to 5200 by 2028

and they're at like 4500 rn

so if u do the math that's like 350 a year

[tame pivot]

it was something like that

[drifting jolt]

wait I did that wrong

but it's still like over 200

a year

which is quite a lot actually

wait

[tame pivot]

idk that last time I heard about it was back in September

[drifting jolt]

I might be lying again

wait no

I'm not lying

5200 from 4500 over 26 27 28

so like

~230 ish a year?

[fervent vessel]

the competition level is relatively the same from prev years

[tame pivot]

4500-4800

so yeah

[drifting jolt]

yeah but there's more people being taken

[tame pivot]

but also they’ve been on a growth plan for the last decade

so

[drifting jolt]

they have?

[tame pivot]

more like last 7 years

close enough

[unique loom]

si

We're opening up a new res college

[sand swallow]

have they dropped any info about d-day?

[tame pivot]

nah

[sand swallow]

...

ion like ths

ivy day is too close

[uneven lion]

day 5 of manifesting rice acceptance as a questbridge applicant

the end of spring break is always bittersweet

[sand swallow]

day 77 of expecting a rice rejection as an intl male needing aid

pls prove me wrong rice

I only need one yes

[uneven lion]

dont we all

[tame pivot]

hopefully it will have been worth the wait

[uneven lion]

i remember going to this rice stem academy program a while back and I was just in awe of the campus

its like being in love with a girl who probably doesnt like you back

[tame pivot]

this is true the campus is nice

[tame pivot]

you don’t know that yet

[uneven lion]

true
but im moreso talking about the way it makes me feel if that makes sense

[sand swallow]

aaaaaah

I really want to go there now

but im not getting in

and it's messing with my head 😭

[tawny heron]

Nah bro you’re getting in

Gotta believe

[sand swallow]

bet

[formal moon]

What if it comes out tomorrow

that would be funny

Historically it’s Monday-Wednesday the week of ivy day

[steady osprey]

hi y’all

[sand swallow]

the sooner the better

I don't like the wait

helloooo

[steady osprey]

you will get an email telling you I’m so sure

because they gave it for both Ed I and Ed ii

[formal moon]

yes! my friend who did ED2 got his over a week before

but i’ve heard of it also being like, 1-2 days notice

I imagine we get an email tomorrow

good luck

[runic kindle]

Yo is my why rice essay cooked if I didn’t actually visit the place in person

Cause some ppl ik apparently did physically go to rice and wrote about it in their supp and I imagine that would be a lot stronger

[tame pivot]

they also sent an email last year to rd

[steady osprey]

no

I didn’t visit

[tame pivot]

I went to rice but that because I’m like 30 minutes away

[runic kindle]

Also what if I never got an interview

[tame pivot]

that’s fine

[runic kindle]

Oh yippee

[tame pivot]

not everyone gets an interview

[steady osprey]

I also tried to get an interview and didn’t get one

[runic kindle]

Have ppl gotten in without interview?

[steady osprey]

me

[tame pivot]

yes bruh

[runic kindle]

Oh lol