<p>Rice and Dartmouth... similarities... differences... is one any more prestigious/wellknown/better than the other??</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Dartmouth is Ivy and the majority of rankings list Dartmouth over Rice. Major differences would probably be climate and location. Dartmouth has about a 1000 or so more students.</p>
<p>similarities=i would kill to go to either one.</p>
<p>differences=hot/cold. also rice has no frats. dartmouth is known for having a larger frat scene, but not a bad one from what i hear. rice is over $10,000/year cheaper.</p>
<p>I would say they are equally awesome schools.</p>
<p>Uh, one is in New Hampshire, one is in Texas. But yeah... you knew that, I assume. Dart has a bigger party rep that Rice. Rice is in the middle of Houston, but doesn't have a big city school feel like Columbia.</p>
<p>Both good-great schools.
Although, as I understand it, Rice will be a bit more homogeneous as it draws the majority of it's students from in-state: Texas.
Whereas Dartmouth draws from pretty much all regions of the country.</p>
<p>Dartmouth gets over half it's students from east coast states.<br>
New England 20.7%
Mid-Atlantic 29.9%
Texas is the size of most of the east coast. Pulling students from all over Texas is about like getting most of your students from east coast states. The diversity is pretty similar.
Rice 35% students of color
Dartmouth 31% students of color</p>
<p>In terms of prestige, I would say Dartmouth has the edge, as it is an Ivy. Also the more selective admission could be another factor.</p>
<p>Bandit_TX is correct: </p>
<p>app. 50% of Dartmouth students come from the 12 different states he mentioned which is the most populous region of the country.</p>
<p>One of those states, New York, has about the same population of Texas
app. 20 million.</p>
<p>New York:......19.2 million
Penn:.............12.3 million
New Jersey:....8.6 million
Maryland:.......5.5 Million
Del.:..............0.8 million
Mass.:...........6.4 million
Conn.:...........3.3 million
Maine:...........1.2 million
N H:..............1.1 million
Ver.:.............0.5 million</p>
<p>Total: app. 60 million</p>
<p>Texas: app. 20 million</p>
<p>60>20</p>
<p>One may also understand that there is more to distinguish
Maine from Maryland or New York, than
Huston from Dallas or San Antonio.</p>
<p>If, on the other hand, by size you mean to say land mass you are right, they are very close.</p>
<p>Don't forget california which has the largest number of students at Dartmouth after NY</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that there is more to distinguish Maine from Maryland than the east Texas piney woods from south Texas desert, or west Texas mountains, or north Texas high plains, or the Texas hill country around Austin, or Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Counties with a population of one person every 200 square miles vs. the 4th and 7th largest cities in the nation. Counties where you can't get elected without a Spanish surname vs. Dallas. East Texas is a lot more like Lousiana, north Texas is like Oklahoma, west Texas is like New Mexico and Arizona, the coast is different yet, and the hill country is unique to Texas. Rice has students from all 50 states and 81 countres.</p>
<p>Rice has an outstanding, but small music school, actually a conservatory. Dartmouth has some excellent arts programs (?especially dance), but no single program as prestigious as Shepherd.</p>
<p>i may be TOTALLY making this up, but back when I was admiring Yale's residential college system, the tour guide said that the only other college in America to do residential colleges was Rice...or I could be hallucinating. Very possible. lol</p>
<p>Yes, Blurinka, Rice has a residential college system that is the most similar to Yale's of any other school</p>
<p>Rice is a great school.....I thought about it.</p>
<p>However, Rice is not only a great school in Texas--- it's in Texas:cool:</p>
<p>In response to Gatsby87, Dartmouth and Rice actually have the same selectivity ranking (#10) on USNews, so I think it's safe to say they are on basically even footing.</p>
<p>every other ranking other than USNews ranks Dartmouth higher</p>
<p>Not the London Times!</p>
<p>Jaymzb,</p>
<p>That is due to Rice giving out academic scholarships, which inflates their acceptence stats. WUSTL does the same thing.</p>