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[quote=Anonymous]Overall, UT-Austin is a better school. However that's primarily due to size, which gives it a lot of reach.

Rice will have better median students, will be easier academically, less pressure, more resources per student, small class sizes, etc. Given the option and a non-engineering major, students should pick Rice.

[quote=Anonymous]If you are premed, Rice definitely because of the grade inflation and better resources for premed students. UT will be harder slog. Can be done but not as easily as in Rice[/quote]
This is very true for pre-med students.

The advantage of these smaller privates is that the professors give out a lot of optional exams, extra credit and flexible deadlines.

At a large school like UT-Austin, the professors don't give a shit because they have 600 other students to take care of in their class. If anything, they make the low level course work so difficult simply to cull students out of a given major. If a student submits 1 minute later than the deadline, that's a 0. Optional exams don't exist. Extra credit doesn't exist - they want to kick out students of the major, not keep them in, and they already have a hard enough time grading 600 assignments without adding on more extra credit assignments.

Meanwhile, at Rice, professors will be extremely accommodating of students. At many SLACS and smaller privates, professors will take final reports/papers weeks after semester has ended if the student asks. Every other assignment is extra credit, they want as many of their students to get A's as possible. Exams are optional as in given 3 exams in a semester, they will drop the lowest scoring exam. Got a A's on the two midterms? Don't need to take the final.

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