<p>Your college "must-haves" list sounds a lot like mine!</p>
<p>Rice- Great location (Houston) and easy access to the city without being in the "bad" part of town. Free access to public transportation system... etc. Their football team, well, sucks. They only won one game this year... but the baseball team is awesome. (They just one the Conference USA regionals and they're moving on to super-regionals this weekend). It's also not super-liberal, and it's more conservative than most universities of its calliber.</p>