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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would choose Rice.  [/quote]

Sorry, but no school in a state where Greg Abbott is the governor deserves serious consideration.  Rice would be an easy "hell no" for me.

As between Amherst and Columbia, the academics at both are excellence, so it's a question of personal preference.  There will be more hand-holding at Amherst, but it's a bit insular.  Columbia is for the self-assured, who want to live in NYC and are prepared to be more independent at a younger age.  [/quote]

Fair enough. But generally I don't think state politics is a really useful metric when deciding schools. There are more Republicans in California than in any other state. The areas around Dartmouth and Cornell and other small towns in New England and upstate NY are going to have far more Trumpers near campus than in a blue city like Houston. Same with Nashville, Atlanta etc, which typically have Democratic mayors. Meanwhile, NYC often has Republican mayors. There's too much local variance within each state for the political affiliation of a governor to be useful. Kentucky is a red state with a blue governor. And Maryland and Mass are blue states that have long had red governors. Personally, I don't find state politics useful when choosing colleges. Not all southerners are inbred goobers; and not all northerners are particularly enlightened.     [/quote]

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