<p>I'm probably going to be an Owl, but I want the opposition's side of the story.
Anyone want to convince me to go to WashU? :P</p>
<p>no, they're both good schools and there def. isn't a $32,000 difference between the two.</p>
<p>no not really. Have fun at Rice!! Personally i would choose washU but not because of any great difference. It's just that i've been around Rice all my life and i'm ready for change!!! But, seriously, it's an awesome school.</p>
<p>Johnny, May 1 has already passed unless you are a junior and talking about next year. If you are a junior then make sure you look into the merit scholarships of both shools that might make the cost of attendance different.</p>
<p>I'm a transfer. And those are the prices I would have to pay should I attend.</p>
<p>I'm at WUSTl and I didn't apply to rice, but in retrospect I should have considered it. They are half as small as WUSTL and have D1 sports and the similar research facilities. But they were in Texas so I wrote them off, and I love WUSTL anyways (i'm a midwest person... I need snow. No snow in Texas)</p>
<p>LOL. Their D1 sports is nothing. Nothing. No one attends. But yeah, I'm actually the opposite. I would go through a lot to never have to see snow again.</p>
<p>Rice's D1 baseball is HUGE, I don't know what you're talking about. In D1 baseball, the Rice baseball team won the 2003 College World Series, defeating Stanford two games to one in the championship series, including a 14-2 rout in the final game. Because of the academic quality of the two finalists, the championship series earned nicknames such as the "RBIs and SATs Series." The victory made Rice University the smallest school in 51 years to win a national championship at the highest collegiate level of the sport. More recently, Rice's baseball team has finished third in both the 2006 and 2007 College World Series tournaments. </p>
<p>Just as Duke is known for basketball, Rice is known for baseball.</p>
<p>And Rice's football is kind of pathetic (2nd to smallest school in the D1 division), definitely not anything to boast about, but it brings out a huge showing from Rice's students--lots of school spirit. Rice Stadium, where they play, can seat 70,000 people (which, obviously, is much bigger than the student body, lol).</p>
<p>WUSTL does very well in D3 sports, I believe they recently won D3 championships in women's volleyball and/or basketball? Something like that; but their students don't really care about sports, other than probably other fellow jocks.</p>
<p>it was men's basketball :)
i think women's volleyball might've won something too but i'm not sure.</p>
<p>anyway, have fun at Rice, Johnny Bear! i'm pretty jealous about the no snow thing actually, the weather is my one complaint about WashU.</p>