<p>haha...well, those were the main points of Bron-bron's speech...I might have unconsciously plagiarized from that...reading apollo's post tho...that is kinda funny.</p>
<p>cmon....we are not writing some essay here...i say screw citations...ill plagiarize all i want on a forum</p>
<p>lol i agree w/sergio</p>
<p>"indeed", a sagacious master once said</p>
<p>I do not think Rice would be successful in creating a law school. I think Rice should instead focus on strengthening its humanities programs. </p>
<p>"Why Rice University Should be the Next Great University"
<a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/why_rice_univer.html%5B/url%5D">http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/why_rice_univer.html</a></p>
<p>Edit: This is nothing against Rice; it is just that the Top 15 law schools are too well-entrenched to allow for another. I, similarly, do not think Princeton, Brown, or Dartmouth could make it in law schools either.</p>
<p>well your assertion is based on the assumption that the success would be immediate. of course that it would not be as prestigious, but it would still be respectable. i mean, its rice cmon! but still, it will take alot of work on getting good proffesors and well known people to move. maybe offer some very good pecuniary incentives i guess! that always works. the med school will definitly be very succesful after a while because of the medical center and everything. it would take a while, but there is plenty of good proffesors that would love to come to houston and baylor has too many and cant take them all.</p>
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<p>The name will only take you so far, and other schools in the Top 15 are much more reputable.</p>
<p>i know man. i was just saying, the name is well respected.</p>
<p>I think expanding existing graduate programs (especially the flourishing nanotechnology/organic chem depts) would prove more successful and bring more immediate success than establish new schools...that would be an uphill battle with no guarantee of success.</p>
<p>i disagree with nspeds....</p>
<p>schools like Amherst and West Lake are not in the top 15..can you argue that they aren't reputable?</p>
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<p>Sorry, I should have qualified my statement; I was referring to the Top 15 Law Schools.</p>
<p>oh ok! hehe...</p>
<p>west lake? u mean the high school?</p>
<p>Personally, I think expanding would be a great idea. I guess some folks like smaller schools (3000 or less) but I feel there is an OPTIMUM: about 5000 to 10,000. That's just right for me because you have the opportunities and large variety of classes of a university while still keeping the small college feel. Rice University is an awesome place to be, but I don't think I would have known about it had I not done my own research on it. I think Rice could do a better job of selling itself, offering more merit aid possibly, and increasing the undergrad size. I mean, they don't have many grad schools, so it really shouldn't be a problem of 'grad students getting more attention'. </p>
<p>I fell in love with Rice last year, and know that they are making some wise decisions. Good luck to all who applied!</p>
<p>i think the lifestyle at rice would be ruined. i like the small campus. and small amount of people.</p>
<p>I also like the fact that Rice is pretty small, adding one or two more colleges won't make too much of a difference however. More than that and I become wary.</p>
<p>The reason Rice isn't as well known is that its graduate programs don't tend to be that publicized, they are pretty small. That is one of the things Leebron wants to change and I am not sure if I completely agree. I like that Rice is more LAC-like in that it is focused on undergrad. </p>
<p>Of course, the building of the 10th residential college isn't even expected to start until a few years at the earliest I believe. So current students like me won't actually be around to witness these changes.</p>
<p>Sergio, it wouldn't be "ruined" really. When you get here, you'll see that the community you're in will be mostly your college. Even if they added 1 or 2 more colleges, things would not change that much at all for your primarily community (your college).</p>
<p>Well, misterme...that really only holds true for freshman who don't know anyone else. After a while, ppl start making friends outside their college, and the sense of insularity that ppl feel with their own college community lessens.</p>
<p>That's true but I think as long as you are living at your college, the most personal and important experiences are at your college.</p>
<p>i just like the fact that i would be able to know like everybody in my undergraduate class eventually because it is small enough</p>