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<p>Says a person who lives on the South side of campus.</p>
<p>Getting a little loud and construction-like over on the north side of campus??? ;)</p>
<p>It's not the noise (I think the Hanszen and Wiess probably have the worst of that), but it's the walking around the stupid green wall in that muddy "temporary path" (from a Brown perspective). Also Martel apparently has essentially no emergency access.</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
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<li><p>Rice has FREE laundry?!?</p></li>
<li><p>What is powderpuff football? I keep hearing all these great things about it but I don't understand what it is.</p></li>
<li><p>What's the Fairy Fountain?</p></li>
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<p>I can answer two out of three:
Yes, laundry rooms are in each res. college and require no coins.</p>
<p>Powerpuff is women's football teams from each college compete during the fall.</p>
<p>The Fairy Fountain is a fountain with a sculpture of fairies that's located by Jones College and Brown College. A birthday tradition at these colleges is to get thrown in the Fairy Fountain on your birthday.</p>
<p>Here's a photo: <a href="http://www.brown.rice.edu/images/tour_pics/7.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.rice.edu/images/tour_pics/7.jpg</a></p>
<p>Does anyone know that Rice has any jazz program?</p>
<p>Yes! I'm in it!</p>
<p>We don't have a jazz major or anything like that. Actually, the jazz program is completely unrelated to Shepherd School of Music (which I think is all for the better). We have a big band jazz ensemble that meets Monday nights and is pretty good if I do say so myself, a smaller "combo" that meets Sundays for those who want some more improv opportunities, and several other opportunities to get together with your friends and play.</p>
<p>Although, I think this question would be better in a thread of its own, but I suppose Rice Jazz Ensemble is a good reason to come here, too!</p>
<p>does rice have an open curriculum</p>
<p>Open in "I can take anything I want and still graduate in 4 years" or open as in, "Lot's of flexibility in coursework and no required core curriculum"? The latter is correct, former is not. You have 3 distribution areas, and you have to take a number of hours in each of those distributions. I think you will find all this information and more on the rice.edu website. :)</p>
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<li>Seventeen magazine dubbed Rice the "Coolest School in the Land" in 2002.</li>
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Yeah, and they also cited Rice's strong fraternity and sorority presence as one of the reasons.</p>
<p>Way to do your research, Seventeen.</p>
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117. Seventeen magazine dubbed Rice the "Coolest School in the Land" in 2002.
Yeah, and they also cited Rice's strong fraternity and sorority presence as one of the reasons.
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Way to do your research, Seventeen.
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I find Seventeen's lack of journalistic integrity appalling. Someone should do something!</p>
<p>I hope I don't sound too ignorant, but why is being considered a "small research university" a big plus? Sorry, I haven't begun college yet; thus, I'm not too aware of what makes certain schools much better than others aside from the caliber of its academics.</p>
<p>Smaller=more hands on</p>
<p>This isn't very related, but um is Rice good for premed? I heard they have a decent Rice-Baylor thing for it, but i don't know much about it. </p>
<p>I don't know any other place to post this ques.</p>
<p>Btw, i can't believe people put "they have huge squirrels", "reminds me of rice the food" and "my gf goes there" as top 101 reasons for attending rice!</p>
<p>I believe Rice has one of the highest medical school acceptance rates in the country (over 90%). I remember seeing some information once on the percentage of Rice undergrads that apply to medical school, but I don't remember where I saw that and don't remember the number. I do think the number of pre-meds at Rice is pretty high.</p>
<p>Rice is also next to the largest medical center in the world, with over 40 nonprofit hospitals and research institutions literally across the street... and next year they're opening a research complex that will be dedicated for Rice students to collaborate with doctors and researchers from the Texas Medical Center. There is plenty of research opportunities (even for freshmen), a sky-high medical school acceptance rate, one of the best medical schools literally within a 5 minute walk from Rice (Baylor College of Medicine), and exceptional medical school planning advice from Rice's professors and advisors. </p>
<p>Rice is the perfect school for premed.</p>
<p>WOw these are incredible claims for Rice..
how come Rice is not as prestigious as some of the other schools like Penn and Stanford then? Its SAT ranges, opportunities offered are certainly comparable to higher-ranked and more famous schools.</p>
<p>I think that's a question Rice people have been asking for a while, lol. My first instinctual answer is "Texas." =/</p>