GPA 3.9+ · TOEFL 114+ · AP 3-4 门
US Top 50 · Houston, Texas · High Reach
Rice University莱斯大学
US News 2026 #17 (US News 2026 National Universities)
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At a glance
Rice University is a High Reach school on our readiness map — that label describes how demanding the preparation is for international-school applicants, not an admission probability.
Based in Houston, Texas (US Top 50, US News 2026 #17 per US News 2026 National Universities), it reviews both AP and A-Level curricula, so the question is not which system you study but how strong your core-subject evidence is.
The benchmarks and admit-case chart below come from anonymized application records of Chinese international-school students, aggregated with percentile ranges to protect every individual case.
Case benchmarks (anonymized aggregate)
Median GPA3.88P25-P75: 3.30 – 4.00
Median SAT1530P25-P75: 700 – 1600
Median AP count6P25-P75: 3 – 11
Ranges use P25/P75 percentiles instead of extremes so a single outlier cannot skew the picture.
Anonymized admit cases
GPA 3.6-3.79 · SAT 1450-1510 · TOEFL 107-113 · A-Level 4个A* （3个预估，1个实考）
GPA 3.8-3.89 · ACT 36 · TOEFL 107-113 · AP 5-6 门
Cases never include student names, school names, teachers, essay text or external application ids.