How hard is Rice?

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell vs Rice

Which would you pick?

Depends on major and if you have a strong preference between rural/urban. Also, if you want to work in NYC area then Cornell is easier.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell vs Rice

Which would you pick?

Depends on major and if you have a strong preference between rural/urban. Also, if you want to work in NYC area then Cornell is easier.

If you want to work in any non-TX market Cornell is stronger brand name

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is not worth the cost. Below ivies, the 2nd tier elite schools' ROA is below that of state flagships. Google the findings. UT Austin is a better deal than Rice.

But you have to get into UT Austin. It is very hard (in or out of state). Two of the Rice students we met when my kid toured campus went to Rice as their consolation school because they did not get into UT Austin.

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I wouldn't assume that non-STEM majors are easy at Rice. We met a number of grinder med school kids who were double majoring in things like English literature along with their stem degree. These pre-med kids want As. It is going to bring up the competition in any class.

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Anonymous wrote:Hello. DC is thinking of committing to Rice tomorrow. Anyone with recent experience? I am worried they could fail out if it's as hard as I think. Yes, I know DC was accepted but the admissions staff were looking for a specific type of student I believe. Thoughts? How hard is the BA stats or economics program there? What of other humanities majors? Thank you. I am extremely worried to accept the offer.

Everything is relative. What are your other options ?

Rice University is an elite school. Application overlap schools are Stanford, Duke, Chicago, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Yale, and MIT as stated by Rice University. (Actually, I find this list hard to believe.)

Another source states that Rice's overlap schools are Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Like Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, Harvard, Chicago, etc., Rice is a place for smart, hard-working, disciplined students.

[Anonymous]

My nephew is currently at Rice. He's a high achiever and is doing well. He has to work at it, though. It's challenging but he feels like he's in a good atmosphere and has support.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is not worth the cost. Below ivies, the 2nd tier elite schools' ROA is below that of state flagships. Google the findings. UT Austin is a better deal than Rice.

You won’t find anything if you google the findings because this is not in fact what the data show. Maybe for computer science. But that’s just one major.

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Life is hard, time to start figuring that out.

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Anonymous wrote:Hello. DC is thinking of committing to Rice tomorrow. Anyone with recent experience? I am worried they could fail out if it's as hard as I think. Yes, I know DC was accepted but the admissions staff were looking for a specific type of student I believe. Thoughts? How hard is the BA stats or economics program there? What of other humanities majors? Thank you. I am extremely worried to accept the offer.

If they were accepted, they can handle the work. Rice is supportive and collaborative. As long as your DC sticks with it, they should be fine and will get all the extra help they might want or need.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice is not worth the cost. Below ivies, the 2nd tier elite schools' ROA is below that of state flagships. Google the findings. UT Austin is a better deal than Rice.

But you have to get into UT Austin. It is very hard (in or out of state). Two of the Rice students we met when my kid toured campus went to Rice as their consolation school because they did not get into UT Austin.

They were probably either out of state, below top 6% at a very competitive school, or applied to a moonshot major like CS

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice is not worth the cost. Below ivies, the 2nd tier elite schools' ROA is below that of state flagships. Google the findings. UT Austin is a better deal than Rice.

But you have to get into UT Austin. It is very hard (in or out of state). Two of the Rice students we met when my kid toured campus went to Rice as their consolation school because they did not get into UT Austin.

This doesn't change the fact that rice is not a good investment. It does well in IB placements. It's not considered a target school - HYP, Columbia, Stanford, UPenn, NYU, UMich, UVA, UT-Austin, UC Berkeley...
If OP is ok with the tuition, that's all it matters. The truth is, it comes up short even against state flagships.


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Anonymous wrote:Hard. Very hard.

It's hard, very hard - for very little. Who's ever heard of econ or stats coming out of Rice? It's an engineering school. It's for grinders working in an outdoor.

Actually a good percentage does music, econ and social policy. They have a music conservatory and a think tank on campus. Liberal social clubs and organizations as well as internships to city nonprofits are popular.

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Anonymous wrote:Hard. Very hard.

It softens up when cooked.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is not worth the cost. Below ivies, the 2nd tier elite schools' ROA is below that of state flagships. Google the findings. UT Austin is a better deal than Rice.

You are hilarious.

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Very good humanities faculty, I don't get the impression the humanities courses are much harder there than they are at other comparable schools. Grade inflation is rampant in the humanities everywhere, so someone in those fields is unlikely to fail out.

NB, this doesn't include econ or stats, which are not humanities.