Rice’s admit rate has barely moved in three years. It read 7.88 percent for the Fall 2023 entering class, 8.00 percent for Fall 2024, and 8.01 percent for Fall 2025, three consecutive readings inside a fifth of a point. A number that steady usually describes an institution that has found its equilibrium and stopped adjusting.
Rice spent those three years doing the opposite. On June 17, 2024, the university announced two changes to its application, both effective for the cycle that produced the Fall 2025 class. It added a second binding early round, and it stopped describing itself as test-optional. The 2025-26 filing is the first measurement of either, and the machinery underneath that unchanged rate moved hard. Early applications rose 86 percent in a single year. The early admit rate fell five and a half points. Half the entering class was committed before the regular round closed. SAT submission jumped eleven points.
A third change runs underneath both. Rice is in the middle of the largest enrollment expansion in its history, and the entering class grew from 1,125 students for Fall 2023 to 1,263 for Fall 2025. This report works through five filings covering the Fall 2021 through Fall 2025 entering classes, published by Rice’s institutional research office. It covers an applicant pool that grew 24.5 percent, an early round that now fills half the class, the residency split that Rice began disclosing two years ago, the demographic record before and after the 2023 Supreme Court decision, a published price that rose almost a third, an aid program whose income thresholds did not move at all, and the degree data that shows one new major reshaping the graduating class.
What Rice reports, and what it leaves blank
Rice files a complete Common Data Set every year, with no skipped years and no missing sections across this window. All five filings in this window carry the full A through J sections, and the arithmetic holds throughout: gender components sum to the reported totals in every C1 table, racial and ethnic components sum to the class totals in every B2 table, and the graduation grids reconcile to their reported rates in all five years.
Three gaps still shape what can be said. Rice reports no high school grade point average at any point in this window, so sections C11 and C12 read N/A in all five filings and no GPA row appears below. The 2021-22 filing gives SAT section scores without a composite range. And the residency breakdown in section C1 exists only for Fall 2024 and Fall 2025, because the item was added to the form as an optional entry.
Two smaller inconsistencies deserve a note. The first-year count in section C1 runs a few students above the section B1 count in the first four filings, by nine students for Fall 2021 and by one for Fall 2024, and the Fall 2021 filing carries three different first-year totals across sections C1, B1, and H2. The figures below use C1 for admissions arithmetic and B1 for enrollment composition, which is how the form intends them. Separately, the 2025-26 filing labels its class size and student-to-faculty data as Fall 2024 while reporting different numbers than the 2024-25 filing gave for that same term, 1,132 sections against 1,139 and a ratio of 5.61 against 5.83. Those are almost certainly Fall 2025 figures under a stale heading.
The pool grew, the class grew, the rate held
Rice received 29,544 applications for Fall 2021 and 36,791 for Fall 2025, a gain of 24.5 percent, with more than half of it arriving in the final year alone. The university’s own April 2025 announcement put the Fall 2025 total at over 36,700 against roughly 1,300 first-year and transfer seats, a 13 percent increase, which matches the filing.
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | |
| Entering class | Fall 2021 | Fall 2022 | Fall 2023 | Fall 2024 | Fall 2025 |
| Applications | 29,544 | 31,443 | 31,059 | 32,473 | 36,791 |
| Admitted | 2,802 | 2,730 | 2,447 | 2,597 | 2,948 |
| Admit rate | 9.48% | 8.68% | 7.88% | 8.00% | 8.01% |
| Enrolled | 1,226 | 1,203 | 1,125 | 1,148 | 1,263 |
| Yield | 43.75% | 44.07% | 45.97% | 44.20% | 42.84% |
| First-year retention | 97.1% | 98.1% | 97.6% | 97.41% | 96.77% |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, sections C1 and B22, entering classes of Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Admit rate = students admitted divided by applications. Yield = students enrolled divided by students admitted. Enrolled counts are the section C1 totals, which run a few students above the section B1 counts in the first four filings.
Applications, admitted students, and admit rate, Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section C1.
The admitted group tells a different story from the pool. Rice admitted 2,802 students for Fall 2021 and only 2,447 for Fall 2023, a cut of 355 offers, then expanded again to 2,948 for Fall 2025. The low point in the admit rate arrived in Fall 2023, at 7.88 percent, and the two years since have been slightly less selective on the headline measure even as applications climbed by 5,732.
First-year students enrolled and yield rate, Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section C1.
Yield explains the reversal. It peaked at 45.97 percent for Fall 2023 and fell to 42.84 percent for Fall 2025, the lowest reading in the window. A university trying to seat a larger class from a pool that converts less reliably has to make more offers, and Rice made 501 more offers for Fall 2025 than it had two years earlier. Retention has held between 96.77 and 98.1 percent throughout, with the most recent figure the lowest of the five.
The early round doubled in one year
Rice runs binding early decision with no early action alternative. Through Fall 2024 it ran one early round with a November 1 deadline. Early applications grew steadily across those four years, from 2,635 to 3,087, and the early admit rate drifted down from 18.14 percent to 16.81 percent. Then Early Decision II arrived, and the pool nearly doubled.
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | |
| Early decision applications | 2,635 | 2,725 | 2,953 | 3,087 | 5,748 |
| Early decision admits | 478 | 511 | 486 | 519 | 647 |
| Early decision admit rate | 18.14% | 18.75% | 16.46% | 16.81% | 11.26% |
| Early decision enrolled | 463 | 497 | 470 | 505 | 629 |
| Early admits as share of class | 37.8% | 41.3% | 41.8% | 44.0% | 49.8% |
| Regular decision applications | 26,909 | 28,718 | 28,106 | 29,386 | 31,043 |
| Regular decision admits | 2,324 | 2,219 | 1,961 | 2,078 | 2,301 |
| Regular decision admit rate | 8.64% | 7.73% | 6.98% | 7.07% | 7.41% |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, sections C1 and C21, entering classes of Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Early decision admit rate = early admits divided by early applications. Regular decision figures are derived by subtracting the early decision counts from the C1 totals, since Rice does not report the regular round separately. Share of class = early decision students enrolled divided by total first-year students enrolled. The Fall 2025 early figures combine Early Decision I and Early Decision II, the first year both rounds operated.
Early decision applications against early and regular admit rates, Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, sections C1 and C21.
Early applications went from 3,087 to 5,748, an increase of 2,661 in one cycle. Rice admitted 128 more students early than the year before, which was nowhere near enough to hold the rate, and the early admit rate fell from 16.81 percent to 11.26 percent. That figure will keep falling if the second round keeps growing, because the university has shown no appetite for expanding early admits at the same pace.
The share of the class settled before April is the number applicants should carry away. Early decision students filled 37.8 percent of the Fall 2021 class and 49.8 percent of the Fall 2025 class. Regular applicants for Fall 2025 competed for roughly 634 remaining seats against 31,043 applications, and the derived regular admit rate of 7.41 percent understates the difficulty, because the pool of unfilled seats shrinks every year that early decision grows.
One caution on reading the filings directly. The 2024-25 form already lists both Early Decision I and Early Decision II dates in section C21, because Rice filed it after the June 2024 announcement, while the counts in that same section describe the Fall 2024 cycle, which had only one early round. The dates and the numbers in that filing refer to different years.
Texans face the longest domestic odds
Rice began reporting the residency split in the 2024-25 filing, and the two years available overturn a common assumption. Texas residents are admitted at a lower rate than out-of-state applicants, and the gap widened between the two cycles.
| Fall 2025 entering class | Applications | Admitted | Admit rate | Enrolled |
| Texas residents | 10,610 | 847 | 7.98% | 447 |
| Out of state | 17,388 | 1,767 | 10.16% | 650 |
| International | 8,793 | 334 | 3.80% | 166 |
| Total | 36,791 | 2,948 | 8.01% | 1,263 |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filing 2025-26, section C1 residency table, reported by known physical address at time of application. Admit rate = admits divided by applications. For the Fall 2024 entering class the same table reports Texas residents at 8.32 percent, out of state at 9.92 percent, and international at 3.95 percent. Section F1 reports out-of-state share on a different basis and does not reconcile precisely with the enrolled counts above.
Admit rate by residency category, Fall 2024 and Fall 2025 entering classes. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section C1.
Out-of-state applicants were admitted at 10.16 percent for Fall 2025 against 7.98 percent for Texans, an advantage of more than two points, and the Texas rate fell while the out-of-state rate rose. Texas applications grew 15.8 percent in that single cycle, faster than the out-of-state pool, and Rice let the resident admit count grow more slowly. A private university with national ambitions has no in-state mandate to honor, and the numbers show Rice using that freedom.
International applicants face a different order of difficulty entirely, at 3.80 percent, roughly half the domestic rate. That pool grew 10 percent between the two years while international admits rose from 316 to 334. Rice funds international students. Section H6 reports institutional aid available to nonresidents in all five filings, with 164 recipients sharing $13.0 million in 2025-26, at an average of $79,444.
Recommended, not required, and the pool responded
Rice adopted a test-optional policy during the pandemic and held it through the Fall 2024 entering class. The language in section C8 was permissive throughout those years: Rice would allow applicants to submit scores if they chose. The 2024-25 filing rewrote it. Rice now recommends that applicants submit an SAT or ACT if available, while promising full consideration to students who do not.
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | |
| Submitted SAT | 46% (560) | 53% (635) | 50% (567) | 48% (546) | 59% (745) |
| Submitted ACT | 29% (359) | 23% (281) | 22% (243) | 22% (248) | 24% (298) |
| SAT composite, 25th to 75th | not reported | 1500-1560 | 1500-1560 | 1510-1560 | 1510-1560 |
| SAT math, 25th to 75th | 770-800 | 760-800 | 770-800 | 770-800 | 760-800 |
| ACT composite, 25th to 75th | 34-35 | 34-36 | 34-36 | 34-35 | 34-36 |
| Share of SAT submitters at 1400+ | 94.5% | 93.9% | 96.1% | 97.3% | 97.7% |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section C9, enrolled first-time first-year students. Percentages express submitters as a share of the enrolled class; students submitting both tests appear in both rows. The 2021-22 filing reported SAT section scores without a composite range.
Share of enrolled first-year students submitting each test, Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section C9.
SAT submission had been drifting down, from 53 percent for Fall 2022 to 48 percent for Fall 2024. In the first class admitted under the new language it jumped to 59 percent, an increase of 199 students. The scores themselves barely moved across the whole period, with the middle 50 percent running 1500 to 1560 and then 1510 to 1560, but the bottom of the distribution tightened: the share of submitters scoring 1400 or above climbed from 93.9 percent to 97.7 percent.
Rice rates standardized test scores as considered, the third of the four levels the form offers, in every filing including the most recent. A university that recommends a score while weighting it in the third tier is asking for information it uses as context, and the C7 grid has held rigor of secondary school record, academic grade point average, the essay, recommendations, character, and extracurricular activities above it throughout. One row disappeared: racial and ethnic status, rated considered through the 2023-24 filing, is absent from the form after the June 2023 Supreme Court decision.
Who enrolls
No single group accounted for more than a third of a Rice entering class until the most recent one, and the year-over-year movement across this window is modest with one exception.
| First-year students | Fall 2021 | Fall 2022 | Fall 2023 | Fall 2024 | Fall 2025 |
| Asian | 371 (30.5%) | 350 (29.1%) | 335 (29.9%) | 333 (29.0%) | 439 (34.8%) |
| White | 319 (26.2%) | 307 (25.6%) | 265 (23.6%) | 294 (25.6%) | 276 (21.9%) |
| Hispanic or Latino | 183 (15.0%) | 199 (16.6%) | 202 (18.0%) | 192 (16.7%) | 178 (14.1%) |
| International | 156 (12.8%) | 160 (13.3%) | 143 (12.8%) | 156 (13.6%) | 164 (13.0%) |
| Black or African American | 102 (8.4%) | 100 (8.3%) | 88 (7.9%) | 67 (5.8%) | 94 (7.4%) |
| Two or more races | 59 (4.8%) | 60 (5.0%) | 67 (6.0%) | 69 (6.0%) | 68 (5.4%) |
| Race or ethnicity unknown | 23 (1.9%) | 21 (1.7%) | 20 (1.8%) | 34 (3.0%) | 42 (3.3%) |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section B2, degree-seeking first-time first-year students. Percentages are calculated against class totals of 1,217, 1,201, 1,121, 1,147, and 1,263. American Indian or Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander counts, never above four students in any year, are omitted for space. Federal reporting rules count Hispanic, multiracial, and international students separately rather than within a single race.
Composition of the entering first-year class, Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section B2.
Black enrollment fell from 88 students to 67 in the first class admitted after race-conscious admission ended, a drop of 24 percent, then recovered to 94 for Fall 2025, the second-highest count in the window. The Fall 2025 count is the highest since Fall 2022. Hispanic and Latino enrollment moved the other way, sliding from a peak of 202 students for Fall 2023 to 178 for Fall 2025 even as the class grew by 142 students, so the share fell nearly four points.
Asian enrollment held near 30 percent for four years and then jumped to 34.8 percent for Fall 2025, an increase of 106 students. Students declining to report race roughly doubled over the period, from 23 to 42, which is a smaller shift than most peers recorded and leaves the other rows more readable than they are elsewhere.
A third more expensive, with aid thresholds frozen in place
Published cost rose from $69,960 for 2022-23 to $92,684 for 2026-27, an increase of 32.5 percent across five billed years. Tuition alone went from $54,100 to $71,170.
| Academic year billed | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
| Tuition | $54,100 | $57,210 | $62,874 | $66,540 | $71,170 |
| Required fees | $860 | $918 | $925 | $957 | $984 |
| Food and housing | $15,000 | $15,900 | $18,100 | $19,550 | $20,530 |
| Total published cost | $69,960 | $74,028 | $81,899 | $87,047 | $92,684 |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section G1. Each filing reports costs for the following academic year, so the column headings give the year the prices apply to. Tuition figures are the first-year rate. Rice charges continuing students who entered before 2024 a lower rate, reported at $65,280 for 2026-27 against $71,170 for students who entered in 2024 or later. Rice’s February 2026 tuition announcement gives the latter figure as $71,140; this table follows the filing.
Published cost of attendance by component against the average need-based grant for first-year aid recipients. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, sections G1 and H2.
Rice prices by entering cohort. The 2025-26 filing reports two tuition rates side by side for the same academic year, $71,170 for students who entered in 2024 or later and $65,280 for everyone who entered before. Rice’s February 2026 tuition announcement gives the mechanics and a slightly different number: tuition rises $4,600 for first-, second-, and third-year students and $2,806 for everyone beyond their third year, which puts the higher 2026-27 rate at $71,140 rather than the $71,170 in the filing. That $30 gap is Rice’s own, and the tables here follow the filing. Either figure leaves a senior and a sophomore in the same seminar paying close to $6,000 a year apart.
| Aid year reported | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
| Determined to have need | 579 | 562 | 507 | 543 | 571 |
| Awarded a need-based grant | 566 | 550 | 495 | 531 | 561 |
| Share of class with a need grant | 46.5% | 45.8% | 44.2% | 46.3% | 44.4% |
| Average need-based grant | $52,764 | $58,740 | $59,908 | $69,891 | $73,663 |
| Average total aid package | $57,375 | $59,724 | $63,233 | $71,698 | $75,643 |
| Share of need met | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| No-need merit recipients | 48 | 43 | 48 | 55 | 74 |
| Average merit award | $17,455 | $22,944 | $22,318 | $26,665 | $34,586 |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, sections H2 and H2A, first-time full-time first-year students. Share of class = recipients divided by first-year enrollment of 1,217, 1,201, 1,121, 1,147, and 1,263. No-need merit recipients are section H2A line N, students with no demonstrated financial need who received an institutional non-need-based award, excluding athletic aid and tuition benefits.
The average need-based grant for a first-year recipient rose 39.6 percent, from $52,764 to $73,663, outpacing the 32.5 percent increase in published cost. Rice met 100 percent of demonstrated need in all five years and describes its aid as loan-free, placing itself among roughly 30 institutions nationally that meet full need without packaging loans. Roughly 45 percent of each entering class receives a need-based grant, a share that has held remarkably flat while everything around it changed.
The Rice Investment sets the terms, and its income thresholds have not moved since the program launched in 2019. Families under $75,000 pay nothing toward tuition, fees, food, or housing. Families between $75,000 and $140,000 pay no tuition. Families between $140,000 and $200,000 receive at least half tuition. Those brackets appear word for word in section H15 of all five filings and in Rice’s February 2026 tuition announcement. Published cost rose almost a third over the same span, so a family at $139,000 in 2026-27 is receiving the same promise against a bill $22,724 larger than the one a family at $139,000 faced in 2022-23.
Merit aid at Rice is real and growing, which is worth knowing at a price point where applicants often assume need is the only lever. Awards to students with no demonstrated need went to 48 first-years in 2021-22 and 74 in 2025-26, and the average award nearly doubled, from $17,455 to $34,586. Rice also fields Division I athletics: 49 first-year students received athletic scholarships in 2025-26, averaging $70,619.
Borrowing fell as the price climbed
The loan-free aid model shows up plainly in the debt figures. The share of each graduating class leaving with any borrowing fell from 20.23 percent to 12.04 percent across five filings, even as published cost rose by nearly a third.
Share of each graduating class who borrowed and the average cumulative amount borrowed. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section H5.
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section H5, graduating classes of 2021 through 2025. Figures cover students who started at Rice as first-time students and received a bachelor’s degree in the reporting year, excluding transfers and parent loans. Average amounts are calculated only across students who borrowed.
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | |
| Graduation cohort | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| Four-year graduation rate | 87.0% | 87.6% | 89.4% | 87.0% | 88.4% |
| Six-year graduation rate | 92.3% | 93.6% | 95.7% | 94.6% | 95.3% |
| Six-year rate, Pell recipients | 91.5% | 94.2% | 92.0% | 93.3% | 94.8% |
| Student to faculty ratio | 5.84 to 1 | 5.95 to 1 | 5.79 to 1 | 5.83 to 1 | 5.61 to 1 |
| Instructional faculty | 931 | 946 | 982 | 1,003 | 1,039 |
| Undergraduate class sections | 1,050 | 1,087 | 1,080 | 1,139 | 1,132 |
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, sections B4 through B11, I1, I2, and I3. Four-year rates are derived by dividing students completing in four years or less by the final cohort after allowable exclusions. The 2025-26 filing labels its class size and ratio data as Fall 2024 while reporting figures that differ from the 2024-25 filing; they are read here as Fall 2025.
Completion sits near the top of American higher education and has improved slightly, with the six-year rate moving from 92.3 percent for the 2015 cohort to 95.3 percent for the 2019 cohort. Pell recipients in that most recent cohort graduated at 94.8 percent against 95.6 percent for students who received neither a Pell Grant nor a subsidized loan, a gap of eight-tenths of a point, down from 4.2 points for the 2017 cohort.
Faculty grew from 931 to 1,039 while the reported ratio fell to 5.61 to 1, and Rice hired a record 97 new faculty in 2024 while stating a commitment to holding that ratio through the expansion. The classroom nonetheless shows strain. Sections enrolling fewer than twenty students accounted for 70.2 percent of the total in Fall 2021 and 61.6 percent in the most recent term, a decline of more than eight points while total sections grew by 82.
One new major reshaped the graduating class
Rice’s degree mix moved more than a five-year window usually allows, and most of the movement traces to a single program.
Share of bachelor’s degrees conferred by discipline, 2020-21 graduates against 2024-25 graduates. Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section J.
Source: Rice University Common Data Set filings, section J, degrees conferred in the year preceding each filing. Percentages use majors rather than headcount, so a student with a double major appears in two rows. Categories follow federal CIP coding. Disciplines below 2.5 percent in both years are omitted for space.
Business and marketing went from 1.9 percent of bachelor’s majors to 7.0 percent. Rice launched its first undergraduate business major in fall 2021 through the Jones Graduate School of Business, and the first cohort of 60 students graduated in May 2024, which is exactly where the CDS series turns. The program was renamed the Virani Undergraduate School of Business in November 2024 following a naming gift, and the share has risen in each year since the first cohort crossed the stage.
Biological and life sciences climbed from 10.1 percent to 13.7 percent and computer and information sciences from 10.9 percent to 12.4 percent, while engineering slipped from 14.4 percent to 13.0 percent and social sciences from 14.1 percent to 11.1 percent. The parks and recreation category, which houses kinesiology and sport management, fell from 7.6 percent to 2.9 percent, with most of the drop landing in a single year between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 graduating classes. The filings offer no explanation, and a move that fast can come from a change in federal coding or from students leaving the field.
Beyond the numbers
The expansion behind these figures is deliberate and enormous. In April 2025 Rice’s Board of Trustees approved growing the undergraduate body to roughly 5,200 students by 2028, about 30 percent above where the current growth phase began in 2020, with the incoming class settling near 1,300 students. The board paired it with a commitment to surpass $1.5 billion in cumulative financial aid since the Rice Investment began, against more than $650 million already awarded. Two residential halls are under expansion toward a planned twelfth residential college, and total enrollment is projected near 9,500.
Rice’s residential college system shapes the undergraduate experience more than any admissions statistic. Students are assigned to one of eleven colleges before arrival and keep that affiliation for four years. Section F1 reports that 99 percent of first-year students live in college housing, and that zero percent of men join fraternities and zero percent of women join sororities, in every one of the five filings. Rice has no Greek system at all.
Two federal pressures sit against the growth plan. When the National Institutes of Health moved in February 2025 to cap indirect cost recovery at 15 percent, against Rice’s federally negotiated rate of 56 percent, Rice supplied a sworn declaration from Provost Amy Dittmar supporting the challenge brought by the Association of American Universities. President Reginald DesRoches told the campus at the time that Rice was not itself a plaintiff. The following month the Department of Education named Rice among 45 institutions it was investigating over ties to The PhD Project, alleging race-exclusionary practices in graduate programs. Neither touches the undergraduate figures in this report directly, and both bear on an institution financing a 30 percent expansion.
What the five-year record means for applicants
The round now decides more than anything else an applicant controls. Half the Fall 2025 class was seated through binding early decision, and the regular round competed for roughly 634 remaining places against 31,043 applications. A student who would attend Rice over every other option, and whose family can commit without comparing aid offers, is giving up real ground by waiting. Early Decision II exists precisely for the student who reaches that certainty in December rather than October.
The counterweight is financial. Binding commitment means accepting Rice’s aid offer without a competing package in hand, and that is a manageable risk only if the net price is predictable in advance. For families under $200,000 it largely is, because the Rice Investment brackets are published and have not moved in seven years. Above that line the calculation is looser, and the published $92,684 for 2026-27 is what a family without demonstrated need will pay.
Texas residence is a mild disadvantage at Rice, which surprises most Houston families. Texans were admitted at 7.98 percent for Fall 2025 against 10.16 percent for out-of-state applicants, and the resident rate has fallen in both years Rice reported the split. Applying from Dallas confers nothing; the university is building a national class and its numbers say so.
Send a score if it is respectable. Rice recommends testing now, 59 percent of the most recent class submitted an SAT, and 97.7 percent of those submitters scored 1400 or above. A student at or near that mark should submit. A student well below it retains full consideration under a policy Rice states clearly, and should weigh whether the number adds anything the transcript does not already say.
And treat the waiting list as closed. Section C2 records two students admitted from the list for Fall 2021, none at all for Fall 2022, and seven for Fall 2023 before taking 122 and then 66 in the two expansion years. Even the good years ran between three and four and a half percent of those who accepted a place. The list has become slightly less hopeless as the class has grown, which is a low bar to clear.
