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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think RICE is better known as a 'unique' school. Lot of very high achieving students CHOOSE to go to Rice over the lower Ivies and Duke etc.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've heard the kids at Rice are happier than the kids at WashU? Is there any truth to this?[/quote]

Couldn't be more true. Soon to be former student at WashU here (transferring out), and the general sentiment is that most departments/programs are nowhere near good enough to justify/make up for the total lack of name recognition the school has outside of the midwest. The CS department is downright awful, as are a lot of fields that aren't related to premed. [/quote]

No dog in this fight, but I would say that Wash U is better known than Rice, and both would be known by grad schools and large employers.[/quote]
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When your college is often mixed up with at least 3 other colleges (UWash in Seattle, Washington College, GWU), then no, I don't think you can say it's more it’s

"well-known" than a place like Rice. Of course, there are differences between WashU and those other places, but it's nothing spectacular or unique enough to make WashU a household name. Everything WashU offers is done better by some other school ranked in the T30. Internationally, Rice holds much more water as well. [/quote]

You are on drugs if you think Rice is better known, it simply isn’t it.  There are one or two over the top parents of Rice students here.  Both are known “enough” by the people who matter, those who hire or admit to grad school.[/quote][/quote]

Agree with Rice being much more of a "unique" school–the impression I get from WashU is that the aspects that make it great are all done better by an Ivy/Duke/JHU, and so on. Nothing about the experience there can't be achieved by another school in the T15 range, but pretty much any school that can do that has better name recognition, and hence a student will gravitate towards that pedigree. No matter how high WashU climbs in the USNews rankings, it's still not a "dream school" for much of those top 1% of HS students–there are around 30 or so universities and 8-10 LACs kids would plausibly pass over for WashU all things held equal. Historically their yield rate is quite low even with taking a ton of kids ED. [/quote]

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