<p>I like the fact that Rice is not humongous, in/near a city, and not obsessed with PC (which is what turns me off about most LAC's, no offense). Any schools for an honest scholar who doesn't want to have to concern herself with suffocating liberalism?</p>
<p>Dartmouth is 2.5 hours from Boston. Trinity U. in Texas. Vanderbilt. Washington and Lee. Claremont McKenna. Several Catholic and Christian colleges: Notre Dame, Georgetown, Boston Coll, Villanova, Wheaton, Grove City, St Olaf., DePauw, Pepperdine.</p>
<p>Rice has unique combination of science/engineering, small size, conservative, low tuition.</p>
<p>Rhodes, Emory, Vanderbilt, to an extent Northwestern.</p>
<p>WashU seems to meet that criteria. It's conservative by any means, but you wont be suffocated by liberalism, either. The same with the schools that fiddlefrog mentioned.</p>
<p>Yale has a residential college system similar to Rice's</p>
<p>Political correctness isn't liberalism, it's silliness. It may have been a scheme of some liberals in particular but I henceforth disown them and revoke their liberal badges.</p>
<p>U of C hicago</p>
<p>Agree with Wash U suggestion. Not too big,academics are rigorous...did not appear to be bogged down with PC....</p>
<p>Maybe also U of Rochester, or Emory.</p>
<p>(Speaking as a liberal) You can avoid p.c.ness without going to a conservative school. I chose not to apply to Oberlin because of pcness-- however, I'm still applying to traditionally liberal schools like Bard, Indiana U, and Yale. Homogeneity is not good, but the key thing from my perspective is that people arrive at their beliefs intelligently,and are respectful of others (isn't THAT the true meaning of liberalism?). Thus, I'd rather go to Vanderbilt than Oberlin, even though I could be sure that the other people at Oberlin would all be voting like me!</p>
<p>Houston as a whole is very liberal. I heard that Davidson is simular to Rice.</p>
<p>Davidson is much more conservative than Rice, and to boot is a very small school in a very rural area. That aside, though, I see what you mean.</p>
<p>that's true, Rice and Houston are not nearly as conservative as the reputation would suggest. But being PC isn't that important (relative to other schools)</p>
<p>I would've been very interested in Rice, but I live 20 minutes away. I'm going to WashU, it's is very similar, but a little bigger. It's in a good part of St. Louis, although not in the coolest neighborhood like Rice. As for the PC stuff, I'm a liberal who hates PC. It seems that to me that the WashU students are interested in the world, tend to be liberal, but have better things to do than protest against anything that offends them. Definately visit. The only reason you might pick Rice over WashU is the weather.</p>
<p>"The only reason you might pick Rice over WashU is the weather."</p>
<p>Or the residential college system, WAY smaller tuition bill, smaller size, and access to opportunities at Texas Medical Center.</p>
<p>ok, I'm a little biased because I'm going to WashU next year. Rice is a great school, good luck to whoever's applying.</p>
<p>np, arfa - I'm a little biased because i go to rice!</p>