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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

I went to Wash. U. I think Rice is probably similar, but in Houston and probably a little more prestigious.

[b]Going there would be comparable to going to Harvard or Yale[/b], but with fewer classmates who are children of heads of state. [/quote]
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Lots of kids with similar stats.  [/quote]

Lots of kids with similar stats at Northeastern, so I guess that must be comparable to going to Harvard or Yale too?

WashU has a lot of high-stat kids, but they're the type of unhooked, high-stat kids who aren't the "full package" enough to get into an Ivy/Stanford/MIT/CalTech/Chicago/Northwestern. Maybe weak ECs, not "unbelievable" recs, or application essay-writing isn't their strength, whatever. It's overhated by its detractors and overrated by families drinking the school's Kool-Aid, but at the end of the day it's a solid private school for a number of fields, but has glaring issues in others (CS is a big one), and has very good regional, decent national, but limited international name recognition. I've run into more students that regret going there than otherwise, but I'd be willing to guess that many kids who go there and finish a premed track won't regret attending.

As mentioned, it's also a pretty unpopular destination for those elite N.E. boarding school kids. Pretty much any other T20 can pull top students easily from those places, but WashU can't seem to carve a niche. Rice isn't [i]that[/i] much more popular, but still definitely has more of a draw for those families. [/quote]

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