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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rice is a Division 1 NCAA school with nationally competitive baseball and swim teams, and there is a lot of attendance and spirit around football as well. This makes it a meaningfully different vibe that Wash U and Emory and the residential colleges are a major difference too. Talk to people with kids there.[/quote]

These are minute differences.  On the whole, these schools are very similar.  OP’s dd should learn about all three and pick the one she likes best.  [/quote]

They really aren't that similar. Rice is leaps ahead in STEM and pre-med. And holds it's own in social sciences and humanities. It's basically MIT-lite but with a nicer campus and better weather - except September, which sucks in Houston. We visited WashU, but not Emory. Very different vibes. WashU is very pleasant. But at Rice you will be working. It's a best and brightest brainiac school. Very diverse.

Seems very different than Duke, which is probably better if you want to go into investment banking or Wall Street. That is typically not a Rice student's ambition. More a doctor, engineer, scientist, professor thing at Rice.  [/quote]

Rice isn’t leaps and bounds better than Emory and Wash U.  I have no ties to any of these schools — they are peer schools.   All three take kids outside the top 20 percent of the class at our private ED.  All three have strong premed.  All three have quirky kids and mediocre sports.  Pick your poison.[/quote]

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