<p>I'm accepted to both Berkeley(college of chemistry) and Rice Univ. in Chemistry major.
I plan to go to graduate school in Chem major.
Which school would be better in terms of academic and prestige?
Please drop your thought!
Thank you!</p>
<p>Go to the one you like more.</p>
<p>I personally turned down Rice for Berkeley, though that was largely monetary (plus I decided I didn't like pre-med so much anymore).</p>
<p>Either one would be just fine, though Berkeley has a significantly better reputation in Chemistry.</p>
<p>Rice certainly isn't going to hurt you though.</p>
<p>Somehow, this post seems vaguely familiar.</p>
<p>large vs. small, as simple as that - go to the one you feel more comfortable with (you should visit the campus)</p>
<p>you might want to consider some other factors too</p>
<p>which one's closer to home? etc, etc</p>
<p>go to the one where you think you'll enjoy it more. prestige means nothing if you don't like being there</p>
<p>anonamous is right really. they are fairly equal here in academics/prestige at the undergrad level</p>
<p>for pre-med</p>
<p>Rice's acceptance is like 90 + percent</p>
<p>Berk, is 50 percent</p>
<p>take ur pick</p>
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for pre-med</p>
<p>Rice's acceptance is like 90 + percent</p>
<p>Berk, is 50 percent</p>
<p>take ur pick
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You might want to take note that the medical schools don't randomly use probability to take students or not. You don't have a 50% chance of getting into medical school from Berkeley, nor a 90% chance from Rice.</p>
<p>It depends on the student--not the school. There are far more poor students at Berkeley, due to the number of students it must accept, than there are at Rice.
In raw numbers, that 50% is far more than Rice's 90%, I'm pretty sure. It depends on the strength of the student himself/herself.</p>
<p>In any case, the poster is talking about chemistry, not necessarily pre-med.</p>
<p>As well, someone pointed out that the stats furnished by Berkeley with regards to med school admits are raw (unfiltered by the university) whereas those from most other schools don't reflect interest from less-qulified students who were discouraged from applying, if i understood that correctly (not a premed here...)</p>
<p>no one from Rice is discouraged from applying, that is a fact</p>
<p>cornell, no one is discouraged from applying, which has a 78 percent rate</p>
<p>the only thing is, ppl w. low GPAs, self-select to not apply, it is not the university that forces them to withdraw their med aps</p>
<p>at berk, this is the same thing, and it is still 50 percent, go look at stats for law schools as well, Cal Berk doesn't do well w. these schools</p>
<p>with Berk's own #s, it shows that it takes a 3.9 from Berk with the same lsat to get into the same school with a 3.8 from Gtown and the same lsat</p>
<p>From a pretty summary early view of that data, it seems that the LSAT/MCATs of applicants admitted tend to be similar, regardless of GPAs. The data indicates that a relatively lower percentage of Cal grads have stellar LSAT/MCATs (which is perhaps not too surprising given that Cal has nearly eight times as many undergraduates as Rice) but those Cal students who have good scores are admitted to law/med schools.</p>
<p>In any case, there is no debate about Berkeley's college of chemistry being better than Rice's in terms of academics and prestige. </p>
<p>One of the hundreds of neat little things about going to school at Cal is that it's the only place in the world where a chemistry prof gets a standing ovation from 70,000 people. It happens every Fall during the halftime of Cal football games on National Chemistry Week, when the head of the Chem department carries a square CF banner to midfield, honoring the great contribution of Berkeley chemists to the field.</p>
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