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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a close call.  I grew up in Houston.  Rice is great but doesn't have the international reach of Columbia.  Amherst is a wonderful SLAC but Columbia is Ivy.  My kid transferred from a top 5ish slac to a top 5 Ivy.  Ivy any day, all day.  Great outcomes and congrats.  [/quote]

Maybe but Columbia is not a top 5 Ivy. [/quote]

By what metric is Columbia not a top 5 Ivy? Do tell.  Because with an acceptance rate of 3.7 percent, Columbia admitted a lower share of applicants than every Ivy other than Harvard, even Princeton and Yale. [/quote]

+1. This.  Rice isn’t in the same category as Columbia for most people unless you’re a Texan kid who wants to stay close to home.  Amherst is more selective than Rice and a completely different vibe than Columbia.[/quote]

Rice is at the same if not higher  level for STEM and policy majors for employers and recruiters. Is it not what matters? And if you go by feel, far more Rice alumni will say "they love Rice" than Columbia. Perceptions have changed. Esp. after the pandemic when most recruiting has gone online. [/quote]

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