<p>hard to believe with my mediocre grades and everything i got into both rice and cornell. now comes the hard part, which one should i chose? any comment is greatly appreciated </p>
<p>I got into college of engineer at Cornell and natural sciences at Rice.</p>
<p>rice is in houston, cornell middle of nowhere
rice is stuck in summer half the year, cornell's got the four seasons
rice around the biggest med-center in the world, cornell near a gun company
rice #17, cornell #12</p>
<p>Rice has a good architecture program, but Cornell's is the best (best UG Architecture school in the country). Anything to deal with science--Cornell is the way to go.</p>
<p>Cornell isn't actually in the middle of nowhere. (Unless maybe you live in a big city right now). There are 13,000 Cornell undergrads, 7,000 Cornell grads, 10,000 Ithaca College students, and 30,000 Ithaca residents. Ithaca is a nice college town. 60,000 people in an area is a pretty good amount of people. Coming from a small town I'd say it is DEFINITELY not rural. Although there are farms around it once u leave the town.</p>
<p>Serious, on a Cornell Board with all its pro-Cornell feelings running high... I would have to say Rice, hands down. </p>
<p>j/k... I'd go to Cornell anyday, also because it's much closer to where I live.</p>