<p>Hawkette, you're right about Texas not being like Michigan. Michigan is much more beautiful.</p>
<p>and cold. i have relatives in the detroit suburbs (rjkofnovi i'm guessing you'd know farmington hills, since novi is a detroit suburb), and i can tell you that the suburbs are nice but the city itself is a piece of c***. michigan is really a pretty state though, but texas has a lot more variety in its beauty.</p>
<p>Variety does not automatically equate to beauty IMO.</p>
<p>I have been up down and around most of Texas and there is not much beauty there. Flat and treeless for as far as the eye can see, flat and desolate, big random cities except maybe Austin. Michigan has some really nice areas.</p>
<p>Wisconsin is a beautiful state as well.</p>
<p>Yes, but I like Michigan's west facing beaches better along Lake Michigan.</p>
<p>The place where Rice is in Houston is very different than the rest of Houston, nice and lush and very park-like.</p>
<p>If you like smaller schools like Rice, also look at Wake Forest, Duke, William & Mary and Vanderbilt. I you like a larger school like UVirginia also def look at UNorth Carolina and UCLA.</p>