<p>Rice</p>
<h1>1 Best Quality of Life</h1>
<h1>1 Happiest Students</h1>
<h1>5 School Runs Like Butter</h1>
<h1>5 Town and Gown Relations</h1>
<h1>6 Lots of Race/Class Interaction</h1>
<h1>8 for Best Athletic Facilities</h1>
<h1>13 Great Financial Aid</h1>
<h1>18 Best Health Services</h1>
<p>woohoo!!!</p>
<p>[Survey:</a> Rice U No. 1 for happy students, quality of life - Your Houston News: News](<a href=“http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/news/article_1101c2ed-a8b7-56a4-b6c3-b1b9daf37e45.html]Survey:”>http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/news/article_1101c2ed-a8b7-56a4-b6c3-b1b9daf37e45.html)</p>
<p>Exciting news!</p>
<p>Just had to repeat the first place ratings …
Best Quality of Life for the third year in a row!
Happiest Students!</p>
<p>This is why I love Rice more than any other school in the world.</p>
<p>This is great news!</p>
<p>I don’t mean to rain on the parade, as I’m very happy about our high quality of life ranking, but how in the world are we ranked #6 for Racial interactions?</p>
<p>How?</p>
<p>I don’t know why you’re viewing that as a negative, Tilgaham. If there are only five schools doing better than Rice in that category, I say it’s something to be proud of. These surveys are pretty non-scientific, anyway.</p>
<p>Tilgaham, are you asking how we’re ranked that high? If that’s the case, then the next time you walk into lunch at Lovett, consider the makeup of people at the different tables. Watch the video that Rice put out to publicize the Princeton Review rankings ([RiceUniversity’s</a> Channel - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/user/RiceUniversity]RiceUniversity’s”>http://www.youtube.com/user/RiceUniversity)), and look at the lunch table they show when talking about diversity. In most college videos, you would assume that this table is staged, but you and I know all of the people at that table and know that they actually eat lunch together.</p>
<p>The reason Rice ranks so high on Race/Class interaction is because it’s totally unremarkable. When a really good friend of mine was filling out a questionnaire that her med school sent her, there were questions about “At your undergraduate institution, how much interaction did you have with people of the following races…”. For “Hispanic/Latino,” she almost put “little to none,” before I reminded her of the several people in our close circle of friends who happened to be Mexican-American and of her Spanish-American junior-year suitemate. That’s the true mark of diversity —*that it’s such a part of your daily life that you don’t notice it anymore.</p>
<p>You also forget about the other part of that ranking, which is class interaction. The residential colleges, by their very nature, unite people from wildly different backgrounds, unlike fraternities and sororities, which necessarily exclude people who can’t afford to pay for dues and social functions.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that Rice is a shiny happy post-racial society that should be a model for the rest of the country, but I am saying that we do a lot better than most other places.</p>
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<p>This is good too. Shows that much of campus is happy with the way things are being run.</p>
<p>We get it, Antarius —*you’re a shill for the administration.</p>
<p>EDIT: Why does CC add asterisks whenever I type em dashes?</p>
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<p>Really doesn’t have to get personal, you know. I wasn’t polled on this survey.</p>
<p>If I were really making it personal, I would’ve used your real name. ;)</p>
<p>I guess it’s more indicative of the class interaction in Residential colleges, or the area I come from, but I don’t find Rice very diverse at all.</p>
<p>I love my University, but we enroll VERY few non athlete African American students. It’s truly a problem.The VAST majority of faculty members are white males. Granted, this isn’t something that is uncommon in higher education, but I believe it’s something we should work on. Additionally, our international focus seems to be squarely on Asia, rather than casting a more widespread net. </p>
<p>Edit1: I’d like to add that Sexual and Religious diversity and tolerance at Rice is absolutely fantastic. It really doesn’t matter what you believe or what your preferences are. You’re accepted here. </p>
<p>Edit2: This is all highly anecdotal, and represents my opinion.</p>
<p>I’ve actually noticed that a majority of African-American students in the Class of 2015 FB Group have been non-athletes. Though I do agree on the international focus point, Tilgaham, it seems like most international students are from the Middle East and Asia.</p>
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<p>We should (and do) hire the most qualified faculty possible. Race, gender etc. should have absolutely no factor in this decision.</p>
<p>There are probably far MORE international students in Asia and the Middle East who apply to Rice (or schools in the US in general) than, say, from Nigeria - I think that might explain away the apparent discrepancy. That being said, I’ve lived with or next to two black female international students (one from the Caribbean, one from Africa).</p>
<p>As for “white male professors”, it must be a departmental thing (I don’t know what your major is but poli sci, econ, etc seem to fit this profile). Bioe is split nearly 50/50, with basically no regard for race, and all but one of the truly great profs I’ve had are women (insert joke about men who go into engineering being awkward here).</p>
<p>Just to add some notes to the diversity of Rice. I attended the New Hispanic Student Reception today and heard some numbers from the freshmen class. Students who have identified themselves as Latino/Hispanic compose of 20% (~200) of the freshmen class(~1,000). And they come from more states and countries than ever before. This 20% is great news and I doubt there are but a handful of top universities that can say they have this.</p>
<p>After two weeks here I can say Rice definitely deserves the high ranking for diversity. I have never seen more interaction between people from such diverse backgrounds as I have here. It’s absolutely stunning and I love it. Everybody is just so cool here.</p>
<p>For instance - Judiasm, Christianity, Atheism; Asian-, Hispanic-, and African-Americans; internationals; people from all different regions of the country, etc - these are the people I have been hanging out with since I got here. As President Leebron said, there is no majority in the Class of 2015. That is really something.</p>