<p>Is Rice really geographically diverse? Or is a larger population of the student body composed of Texas residents?</p>
<p>45% of Rice's incoming freshmen last year were from Texas. So yeah, the Texan presence is huge, there is no denying that. I think you will find that Texan doesn't necessarily mean what you think it is. Texas is the second most populated sate and is peopled by a wide variety of people.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is a huge difference between people from Austin vs. Lubbock vs. El Paso vs. Houston vs. middle of nowhere small towns. </p>
<p>Plus we have most of our students from out of state, and that percentage is increasing.</p>
<p>"Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch." </p>
<p>-- Hunter S. Thompson</p>
<p>Lol.</p>