Established Texas Residency

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rice University
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<p>@anxiousmom, comment on sacrificing the majority of your social life.</p>

<p>It depends on the classes you take. As a pre-med, I doubled up in the sciences and decided to take 2 writing intensive humanities classes my first semester. It was A LOT of work, because the science classes at my school are structured to weed kids out. Emory has 500+ kids enrolled in intro science classes out a student class of 1200 kids, so even though they don’t explicity weed out kids, they make the classes extremely difficult so kids will drop their pre-med plans. As far as social life goes, I still have time to workout with friends, go and eat with friends, just hang out and enjoy ECs, however its not the TYPICAL social life of a college student.</p>

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<p>Emory may try to weedout students, but I don’t believe Rice does. DS works hard in engineering at Rice, but he does find time for 8 hours of work/study work, at least 15 hrs. per week of clubsport/fitness workouts, plus at least 4 whole weekends away at tournaments per semester, and time for girlfriend/res college events plus schoolwork. So he’s busy, but he seems happy. :)</p>

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<p>Is Rice really competitive for international applicants? HYPSM are all very, very competitive for internationals, but what about a school like Rice? I mean, not too many people know about it up in Canada, so I would assume only few people apply to it and those that do know about Rice just apply to HYPSM instead since they are more “prestigious”.</p>

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<p>Hey guys, I have a very similar situation, and I’m looking for advice/ suggestions for establish Texas residency. If you’re knowledgeable on establishing residency for in-state tuition at UT Austin, please tell me at my thread:<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/937275-establishing-texas-residency-help-buying-land.html#post1064971911[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/937275-establishing-texas-residency-help-buying-land.html#post1064971911&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>longhorn, in-state residency is pretty unnecessary for rice, as it’s a private uni</p>

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<p>Rice as an undergraduate institution is better than UT overall. However, UT’s honors programs offer a similar academic atmosphere as Rice without the price tag. However, Austin provides a much better college experience than Houston. It has great live music, better public transportation, and great outdoor scene. Houston as a whole is basically a giant suburbia. Admittedly, it’s a bit better in the West University area, but it’s still pretty bad.</p>

<p>As far as premed goes, I don’t know much about Rice. UT premed is cake if you are among the academic elite. It seems half of the school is aspiring doctors, but only a few are willing to study for it. If you are among the academic elite, I would suggest applying for Natural Science’s honors program – Dean Scholars. The program accepts ~60 students per year, but claims 100% medical school acceptance rate for those DSer who pursue medical school (I’d take that with a grain of salt).</p>

<p>Your in-state status will not help that much on admissions to UT, since the top 8% rule applies to those who went to high school in Texas. However, if you are good enough for the honors programs, you’ll be good enough for UT as a whole.</p>

<p>From an academic and college life perspective (without considering cost).
If I were choosing between Rice and UT, I would choose Rice.
If I were choosing between Rice and one of the UT honors program, I would choose UT.</p>