<p>what made you decide to attend Rice over those ivies that have also accepted you?</p>
<p>Rice is in Houston</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of people at Rice chose Rice over Cornell, Brown, etc. I’m not one of them, though, so I can’t offer specific reasons without speculating!</p>
<p>Tons of threads on this if you do a search.</p>
<p>I turned down Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, and MIT for the following reasons:
- $$$$$$$, duh. This was far and away the most important factor.
- I’m from Texas, so I could bring/keep my car if I went to Rice, but not any of the above
- Warm weather. It’s a big deal.
- Rice’s rankings for my particular department are superb - I think 7th nationally. I did a ****ton of research on the professors and classes related to what I wanted to do, and what Rice provides most closely matches what I was looking for (bioe at MIT looks like glorified biochemistry, columbia focused too much on medical applications). I haven’t been disappointed.
- I’m double-majoring in a field completely unrelated to my “real” major, and this would be more difficult/impossible at some of the more technically focused schools I was accepted to.
- MIT accepted a bunch of dumb rich URM kids from my area, while waitlisting me and my ex (broke white kids) - these were kids I knew cheated on extracurricular stuff, whose parents made donations, blah blah blah. I knew I was more qualified and seriously questioned the judgment of the university, to the point where I turned them down when they accepted me in May. Good reason? Maybe not, but I don’t regret it.
- Beeeeeerrrr Biiiiiiike!</p>
<p>beeeeeeeer bike</p>
<p>From my friends who turned down some Ivies for Rice, many of them said they did so because of the quality of life, the weather, and the residential college system.</p>
<p>silentsailor what were your stats? If you apply Rice ed do you still have a chance for merit aid? Looking at engineering.</p>
<p>Well, I was accepted into both MIT and Rice, and am now wondering about where to go. :</p>
<p>seltor: I’d imagine that a key component of that decision would be cost at Rice vs. MIT. If you got into MIT, I’d think you would get some scholarship at Rice?</p>
<p>Compare the quality of life at both universities… although both universities tend to be nerdy (
), the quality of life is quite different at both schools. Rice is very well known for its laid-back, fun atmosphere. Visit both again and see what atmosphere you prefer.</p>
<p>I’ve visited Rice 3 times before (and LOVED it.) Never been to MIT. I’ll visit MIT before I make a decision…</p>
<p>And as for the $, I still haven’t received financial aid packages from either.</p>
<p>selter01, how did you get in both already? If ED then you were required to withdraw from the other. If RD then decisions are not out yet.</p>
<p>Vision weekend and likely letter. I guess I should wait and find out officially… but I am already worrying. Sorry if I cased any confusion.</p>
<p>PS. MIT decisions were released yesterday.</p>
<p>selter, are you saying you received a “likely letter” from Rice recently? Was this separate from the Vision weekend process?</p>
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<p>Rice is way more socially balanced (socially healthy) and much (!) better in the humanities than MIT, plus Rice’s having excellent sciences, as well.</p>
<p>It’s totally understandable why a Berkeley undergraduate alum and Tufts parent would take cheapshots against MIT. Talk about lacking “good self-esteem” (which, by the way, is a redundancy since self-esteem is by definition good).</p>
<p>I haven’t turned down any Ivies for Rice yet, but I am considering it along with some Ivies and Nescac schools.</p>
<p>My college decision ended up coming down to Rice v. Princeton; I ended up choosing Rice in the end. I visited both schools and they both obviously had great programs, great professors, smart students, and amazing resources. I could have gone either way on the climate and location (though I wanted to get out of the the South, so Princeton actually got points for that). I know that I had a limited sample size and I’m making gross generalizations, but the students that I talked to at Rice just seemed so much more interested in what they were studying. The Princeton students all seemed very involved in their studies, but I didn’t get the same excitement that I saw from most of the Rice students that I talked to. The Princeton students seemed like they were carrying out their studies because they felt obligated to, the Rice students because they loved it.</p>
<p>One of my friends here passed up Stanford and Yale for Rice. A full ride plus research is as good a reason as any.</p>
<p>Also, we have Beeeeeeeeer Biiiike</p>
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<p>I’m evidently missing something because I have no idea what you are talking about here or where this is coming from.</p>
<p>Edit:</p>
<p>Your post history illustrates that you have often displayed a highly hostile attitude in this forum. Perhaps hoping for a rational explanation from you is too much. Please prove me wrong.</p>