<p>Meh, I'm bored. Someone ask me something about Rice. I'm a Biochemistry major (premed). I also have a Mechanical Engineering friend with me, so you can ask about that too.</p>
<p>Woohoo, one more week of classes...Then two weeks of final exams. =(</p>
<p>D has been working on her Rice Supplement and is almost ready to hit the submit button. She is really interested in a double major in poli sci and English. At this point in time, she is applying to the social sciences division instead of the humanities. She is also considering courses to help her prepare for a law career. When we visited during the summer, neither the tour guide,info session people or her interviewer were able to give me any statistics on acceptance to law school for Rice grads. I know the acceptance rate to medical school is through the roof at Rice, but I can't find any information on how pre law students do. How can we find this information out? Anecdotal reports are fine as well as some hard data on it.
Also, she is really interested in being able to stay on campus all 4 years and not get bumped off for a year. How many people, if any, are able to stay in on campus housing all 4 years? We also could not get that question answered either.
Since so many students are from Texas, do a large number of students leave on the weekends? My niece is a freshman at Baylor ( we all live in Nashville) and she has been very discouraged at how all of her friends leave nearly every weekend. But then again, Houston has a lot more fun things to do all of the time than Waco does.</p>
<p>How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?</p>
<p>To your friend in MechE: Is it doable for an undergrad to get involved in research with profs/grad students?</p>
<p>are there specific requirements/classes that you take as an undergrad if you're doing pre-med? are there supplements/research/projects that prepare you for med school?</p>
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but I can't find any information on how pre law students do. How can we find this information out? Anecdotal reports are fine as well as some hard data on it.
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I found this online, but am not sure of the source:
"Post-Rice:
Degree from Rice – high value
Acceptance rate – over 95% for Law School, over 90% for Med."</p>
<p>Anecdotally, Rice students do very well in law school acceptances, many chose UT Austin for its reasonable cost and very good rep, but quite a few others go to Harvard, Yale, etc.
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How many people, if any, are able to stay in on campus housing all 4 years?
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If your daughter REALLY wants to stay on campus all 4 years there are ways (such as be an officer in your residential college, room with someone with better roomdraw, etc.) Some residential colleges don't kick anyone off campus since enough choose to live off-campus. By the time your daughter is a junior(the year that most kids live off-campus), the new res colleges will be open and renovations of the old ones will be done, thus more beds on campus and less students "jacked" off-campus. I actually worried a lot about this when my DD was considering Rice. She did live offcampus (and studied abroad), and found great places very close to campus that actually saved us money. She also found she prefered living off campus when she was a senior - a little more personal space and quiet!!!.
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Since so many students are from Texas, do a large number of students leave on the weekends?
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No. Unless to go to tournaments w/club sport teams, or research trips or fun stuff. Campus is hopping at all times.</p>
<p>omgosh. I want to major in biochemistry @ rice as well.
(applied early decision... hoping to get in >_<)
Johnny Bear, how is about biochemistry @ rice? Is it hard? o.O</p>
<p>hope4freeride: although raw data is hard to find, the best I can come up with after a google search is "over 95% acceptance rate into law school, over 90% for med school". It's not the best source, but they did get the number right for med schools.
You can stay on campus if you hold a leadership position within your college (like college president). There are a few other ways, but it does seem to be fairly difficult to stay on for all 4 years. I know a lot of people from Houston at Rice, and no one leaves on the weekends. The weekends are definitely the best time to be ON campus.</p>
<p>BZ-B: 6,308.318</p>
<p>quantize: Yes. I have many freshman friends that are involved in research with professors, and one of them asked around a bit and got a research with an M.D. PhD at Baylor College of Medicine. Yes, as a freshman. You just have to ask and show interest, and have good people/interviewing skills.</p>
<p>ILoveJambaJuice: Rice has excellent pre-med advising. There are classes that Med schools want you to take, and you can meet with a Pre-med advisor who will help you figure all this out. Rice also has a Pre-med society, and there are a LOT of premeds here. If you want to be Premed, Rice is the place to be. Trust me on this, there are so many premeds at Rice it's unbelievable, and there's a reason they choose to come here.</p>
<p>Shazheng: One of my good friends is a biochem premed and it is definitely tough... but so is almost anything else you do at Rice. If it was easy, it wouldn't be worth it, would it?</p>
<p>I have yet to meet a biochem major who I think is dumb...and I think a lot of people are dumb. I'm pretty sure it's possible to slide by bsing with some of the humanities majors. Also, if people leave on the weekends you probably don't (want to) know who they are anyway. Does Beef apply his saying on easy things to girls?</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your helpful information and answers to my questions which had been left hanging after our visit.
Now a dreaded chances question?
She is currently #1/113 at a private school, a NMSF and I have no doubt she will be a NMF.
SAT CR 750, M720, W740, so 1470/2210
Furman scholar, AP scholar(APUSH 5, AP Chem 4, AP Latin 4), taking 5 AP classes this year,
Princeton Book Award, got academic award for highest average in 10 and 11 in English,History, Biology, Chemistry, Latin, Class Essay Award 10,HOBY delegate,
Coeditor of school newspaper, leadership roles in Model Un, Youth in Legislature and Forensics, cross country runner-was on midstate team in 9,then got injured.
Volunteered at local Children's hospital and worked at kids science center after 10th grade, did mission trip to Peru last summer with religious organization. Probably some other stuff but I cant think of them right now.
Any chance for some merit scholarships?
Thanks</p>
<p>How much do you think Rice will expand the Class of 2013 acceptance?</p>
<p>lol sorry I didn't check back sooner..I didn't think there'd be that much discussion about Rice after (less than) one day.</p>
<p>hope4freeride, your D looks qualified for a merit scholarship. Those stats are above the Rice median. Rice is actually not a great school for prelaws and poliscis. Schools like Georgetown should take priority over it when you apply.</p>
<p>Yes you can research with profs as a MechE. There's so much opportunity for this stuff here.</p>
<p>Yes Bioch is hard. EE, BioE, Bioch, and architecture will give you a hard life at Rice. If you choose Bioch you will suffer, guaranteed, so you better make sure you really love this stuff and want whatever you're after badly enough.</p>
<p>Premed requirements. Yes. Rice</a> Pre-Medical Society (RPMS) "Stethoscope" Online Very few course requirements. But there's stuff you should definitely take so that you don't enter med school stressed out of your mind. Like Biochemistry, Immunobiology...They walk you through this at Rice. Look around that site. As for noncourse requirements...You can do anything that makes you look interesting. Most premeds do research or volunteer work. Clinical experience is useful. The worst thing you can do is nothing. No, the worst thing you can do is kill your roommate and lie about it.</p>
<p>Unless you do that special stuff other people mentioned, you should expect to spend a year off campus.</p>
<p>2013...We're getting two new residential colleges, so Rice may increase by more students than usual. At least a hundred more than previous years is my guess.</p>
<p>And lastly, Bioch is hard. Hard hard hard. And med school is harder. It's recommended that college students study/prepare two hours per hour of class they take. I used to think this was ridiculous. No one does that. Guess what, Biochs do. Or should.</p>
<p>Anyone here doing biomed engineering? I was wondering exactly what it entails... I'm interested in gene therapy/genetic engineering and neuroprosthetics(computer eyes for the blind, motorized arms for amputees etc) do those two generally fall under "biomedical engineering"?</p>
<p>oh yeah do you think Rice Adcoms prefer one or two teacher reccomendations? I know a whole bunch of people sending two and ive heard that if you send in extra, they don't even look at it.</p>
<p>They require two instructor recommendations. Most schools don't look at anything beyond two. Of course, if you've worked with a prof at Rice who can write you a good rec, it will help to have that third rec.</p>
<p>WashU has biomed-E. Rice has BioE. Both are good for what you described, though ultimately you'll learn the most pertinent information in that field after you graduate and get actual training.</p>
<p>how come on the website they say they only require one teacher rec? ...</p>
<p>Oh. My bad. Don't send two then. It doesn't help.</p>
<p>my guidance counseler said it was a good idea to send 2</p>
<p>Unless it's spectacular it only shows that the applicant can't follow instructions.</p>
<p>Well, its discouraging to hear that Rice is not great for prelaw or polisci studies since they have that Baker Institute for Public Policy. I had hoped that Rice was trying to expand its reputation for excellence more into the social sciences and humanities since it is already great for engineering, natural sciences and music.</p>