<p>Academics and medical/science research opportunities will be very good and similar at Rice and Emory, weaker at Colgate.</p>
<p>Personally prefer Rice: more tight knit community - think students happier there as a group - social scene probably more inclusive than Emory or Colgate. But, yeah, a lot of Texans (less geographic diversity) and I don’t particularly like Houston (don’t like Atlanta much either, come to think of it).</p>