<p>I'm considering whether I should apply to these three universities. Emory and Rice seem to offer very good neuroscience programme, but their general ranking isn't that good. Does anybody have ANY comment about these three universities? Thanks alot.</p>
<p>"their general ranking isn't that good."</p>
<p>You have been on CC way too long.</p>
<p><em>shakes head</em></p>
<p>I don't know much about Rice except for their baseball team, but Emory is an awesome college. Don't know who told you otherwise.</p>
<p>I see that you are from Singapore, so perhaps you don’t know, but these are three pretty different places. Great students at all, great undergrad experiences available at all, but different types and different experiences. For my money, Rice is the class of this group, but it really depends on what you are looking for. Can you expand on what you are looking for in a college, both inside and outside the classroom and what you hope it will do for you post-graduation in Singapore or elsewhere?</p>
<p>Also, I agree with the others about your characterization of these schools. Don’t get hung up on the “low” rankings of these colleges. In the US, they certainly aren’t considered as “low” colleges.</p>
<p>All three of these colleges are extremely well respected in the U.S. by grad schools; you're don't need to worry about their rankings. Just research each school and determine which one you would be happiest at. Since you are international, you might consider Rice just because Houston is a much more "international" city than Atlanta or Charlottesville.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure they are all great schools. My sister is going to be a freshman at Emory this fall and she didn't into Virginia mainly because she was out of state.</p>
<p>Rice is the best school ever, so you should definitely apply there. I'm a little biased though. :P</p>
<p>Houston more international than Atlanta? Not by a long shot!!!</p>
<p>^Houston is definitely more international than Atlanta.</p>
<p>Rice doesn't actually have a neuroscience major...</p>
<p>if you are looking at neuroscience, do not just look at the program they offer and their ranking. you should also look at ways to get a first hand experience with neuroscience. I know at the university of virginia, they have a top rated teaching hospital, and some of their doctors work with those in the biomedical engineering department on research. experience is very important when you are looking for jobs.</p>
<p>Houston is the home to the most Fortune 500 companies behind NYC and is known as the energy capital. It's America's 4th biggest city. I would think it is more international than Atlanta.</p>
<p>Honestly, I feel that Rice is quite underrated on CC and people seem to dislike Emory a lot on this forum in favor of higher-ranked colleges. Keep in mind that CC is a world of overachievers who think Ivies are the only colleges worth thinking about; take things with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>All three schools are excellent, top 20 except for UVA, but UVA is easily top three public schools in the country.</p>
<p>Try to visit if you have the chance; otherwise do your research online with their websites and email current students, admissions, etc with any questions you have. Then, for example, you will find out that Emory has a 2-year business school (Goizueta) and that Rice has a residential college system, etc. Get to know the unique characteristics of each school.</p>
<p>Do NOT base your decision on applying simply by a seemingly arbitrary ranking number on USNWR--colleges go up and down a couple spots every year and really, all top 20 colleges offer an excellent education.</p>
<p>And to go along with javaCombination--I can't speak for UVA or Emory, but as I am heading to Rice this fall, I know for a fact that there will be PLENTY of undergraduate research opportunities. Rice is literally a walk across the street from Texas Medical Center, the biggest medical district in the entire world. You could be doing research within the first month of school, if you wanted. Medical research and internships are very easy to obtain at Rice, since it is entirely undergraduate-oriented.</p>
<p>prestige-wise, Rice is definitely at the top among the three.</p>
<p>well, at least in Texas that is. and your peers at Rice would be more competitive academically because Rice admission is much more selective than UVA or Emory.</p>
<p>however, it gets on my nerves when Rice undergrads think they are right behind HYPMS and barks at other top 15 colleges arguing that Rice is def better school... cuz....yeah. Rice does lack the name recognition outside of midwest as compared to schools like even Northwestern or maybe CMU. so i never considered going to Rice myself.</p>
<p>but my point still stands that i wouldn't attend either UVA or Emory over Rice.</p>
<p>All three are great schools, but with different feels. Rice is generally about $10,000 cheaper than schools of similar caliber. I'm not sure about UVA's cost for out of state. </p>
<p>There is no question that Houston is a more international city than Atlanta. Not to diss Atlanta, but it's just the truth. 4th largest city in the country, large international airport (similar to Atlanta's- I think Atlanta's is a little larger). Very large international port (one of the, if not the largest) Atlanta doesn't have a port. Much Business and Social interaction with Central America and also with South America. Energy capital of USA with its attendant interactions with other countries involved in the oil industry.</p>
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<p>I've never met a Rice student who is like this; everyone I know at Rice and my fellow classmates that I've met online are some of the most friendly and approachable people I've ever met. They are extremely down-to-earth and definitely do not have the arrogant holier-than-thou demeanor that is prevalent in Ivies. Just to put things in perspective, Rice has pretty high SAT ranges (look on USNWR) and is pretty selective (~24% acceptance rate) but isn't ranked higher on USNWR because it's largely an undergraduate-oriented school and their graduate schools aren't that great; also, most common overlap application schools include Harvard, Duke, Stanford, Yale, WashU, and UT-Austin (b/c both are in Texas). I know several of my classmates who have turned down Ivies and other comparable schools (like Stanford and Duke) to go to Rice, for reasons ranging from financial aid to because they love the atmosphere, residential college system, etc.</p>
<p>But, like Aardvark says, Rice lures a lot of students who get into Ivies with large merit scholarships and is pretty generous with its need-blind aid--in addition to its $10,000 cheaper price than $50-52k pricetags of such universities like Northwestern and WashU. Not to mention it's got one of the biggest endowments ($5-6 billion) even with its tiny undergraduate body (<3000 students).</p>
<p>And its prestige and recognition is mostly in the South, not the Midwest region (that would be WashU). However, it is very well recognized at grad schools with excellent grad rates--it had a 90% medical school placement rate last year. Most regard it the best or 2nd best school in the entire South, behind Duke. And the premier university of the Southwest. </p>
<p>I could go on and on about how much I love Rice and the things I love about it :) but I'm just going to end by saying that it really is up to you to find out more about each school and really visit for yourself, if you're able to. Each of these three will offer a fine undergraduate education.</p>
<p>Overall, with undergrad and grad schools factored in, Rice will obviously lose against Ivies; but in the aspect of undergraduate experience, I will argue that it is just as good or better because of its undergraduate focus.</p>
<p>I'd agree with Rice but don't expect much name recognition in the US or back home.</p>
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<p>U Chicago, Cornell, Chicago, Northwestern, and Johns Hopkins should definetely ALL be below Rice. Rice is more prestigious academically, and it's way harder to get in.
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<p>posted by a guy named jmanco in the other thread. isn't he one of you guys? well, either way, he will be joining you guys shorly if everything goes as he plans. i was just referring to him when i posted that.</p>
<p>I don't think he is. A lot of the other peple that push Rice so hard on these boards are prospective rather than actual students as well. They aren't really representative or representatives of the school.</p>
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posted by a guy named jmanco in the other thread. isn't he one of you guys?
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<p>isn't that the guy who has a problem with everything? (like the top 10% rule at ut-austin, how harvard has "large classes" and stuff like that)</p>