<p>Hey guys, so I'm 70% sure I'm going to Rice (debating between Rice and Northwestern) but I was just curious: for those of you 100% sure you're attending Rice, which schools did you turn down to go to Rice?</p>
<p>I'm still waiting until April 1st to get all my decisions, but I'm pretty sure I'll be back/going to Rice! :)</p>
<p>dude! you kicked butt on the emory boards...that was awesome how you made rice look WAY better than emory!</p>
<p>XD i'm picking between the two too. I was debating b/t medill and rice. For me, though, its down the financial aid. And Chicago is brrrr cold.</p>
<p>Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, full-ride UT Austin</p>
<p>It's the fin aid and century scholars that did it.</p>
<p>wow congrats! how did you get a full ride to UT? engineering?</p>
<p>Isn't UT Austin the one that offers full ride + an extra thousand a year to all Nat'l Merit Finalists?</p>
<p>My D picked Rice over UPenn 2 years ago. Tuition and major (Engineering) are two factors.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna, Colorado College, Tulane, and UGA Honors</p>
<p>My son chose Rice last year over UT engineering honors, Wash U, Carnegie Mellon (ECE and CS), Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, USC and Cornell.</p>
<p>I'm between Rice and Cornell also... do you think Northwestern's "better reputation" is significant to turn down better financial aid/warmer weather?</p>
<p>Chose Rice over Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, NU, and all UCs w/ regents last year. :] And no regrets [97% of the time].</p>
<p>UT Honors Engineering, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, Georgia Tech, Illinois</p>
<p>Michigan, UCB, UCSD, UCLA, Davidson, Oberlin, Emory, McGill</p>
<p>I'm really torn between Rice, Northwestern, and WashU--actually. :( They all have their good and bad points, pros and cons (no college is 100% perfect). </p>
<p>I'm visiting WashU next week (feasible only because WashU is paying for me to do so), but I am not so confident that I will be able to visit Northwestern or Rice later this month, due to my parents' refusal to pay for me to visit and time/school constraints, I guess. =/</p>
<p>Any of you above posters, would you guys mind elaborating what was/were the particular dealbreaker(s) to make you decide to go to Rice? </p>
<p>What tipped you over to choose Rice would greatly help me, as there is a very small chance I will be able to attend Owl Days, as much as I want to.</p>
<p>ceebee, unfortunately that's not true. Texas A&M gives money out the wazoo to National Merit Finalists but UT gives like, 4k a year or something equally ridiculous</p>
<p>DD chose Rice over Carleton, Macalester, Oberlin, Bowdoin($), College of Wooster($$), Grinnell($$), University of Florida (w/ NMF full-ride back in the day). DS only applied instate, chose Rice over Trinity U($$), Texas Tech (full-ride), TAMU($), UT Honors Engineering(half-tuition).</p>
<p>Haha I couldn't remember...I just knew that some Texas college gave out lots of money!</p>
<p>Yeah UT gave me crap for national merit...more than Rice, obviously, but dismal compared to the merit aid A&M gives out. I had something like $8000 to engineering plus some UIL scholarships and potential terry. Plus I'm in state so it's not like UT was a big deal.
Just got into UPenn haha. Still going for Rice becasue of $$, but even if that were the deciding factor I think Rice would still seriously be in the running.</p>
<p>I turned down WashU, Univ of Pennsylvania, Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Univ of Rochester, and UConn (honors program).</p>
<p>Turned down UT engineering honors, A&M, UTPA, Kettering.
I applied ED so I never heard from USC or MIT (had to retract my apps when I got into Rice), but I had gotten deferred from there EA. I also never finished my apps to Harvard, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, and Brown (their deadlines were after the Rice notification date so I didn't feel like dishing out $70 a pop if I was going to end up retracting anyway).
I would've picked Rice anyway though, which is why I did ED.</p>