<p>I read online that 90% of its students who applied to medical school last year or the year before got accepted to a school. Is this percent representing only the students who were in the 8 year med program or is it representing every student?</p>
<p>Is the tuition same for students who live outside of texas as that for residents of texas?</p>
<p>How large and "aesthetically pleasing" is the Rice campus? I live in NJ so its going to be really hard for me to visit the campus, so i hoping to get an honest opinion of student rather than the web site's glorification of the campus. Any negative aspects of the campus? Any significant positives?</p>
<p>What is the weather like at Rice? Whenever i see the weather channel, it seems like Texas is at lowest around 70 degrees.</p>
<p>Last question: do many people play ultimate frisbee at Rice? I'm a huge ultimate frisbee player.</p>
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<li><p>I believe that figure represents every student who applies to med school. Rice Baylor (the 8 year program that you're talking about) guarantees admission to Baylor's med school, along with some pretty serious scholarship money, which I think the vast majority of students selected for it take.</p></li>
<li><p>Tuition is the same for in and out of state students, as Rice is a private school.</p></li>
<li><p>Rice has one of the most aesthetically pleasing campuses in the country in my opinion. It isn't exactly the traditional red brick campus of New England, but instead a more Mediterranean (I think I've heard the term Neo-Byzantine used to describe it, but I'm not sure what that term means) style of architecture. The streets and sidewalks of campus are lined with live oak trees and there is a lot of green space on campus. There are a few ugly buildings on campus, and there is one corner of campus out by the stadium that has been paved over to create a giant parking lot, but the rest of the campus is amazing.</p></li>
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<p>Houston does occasionally get cold, we had one or two days last year where it dipped well below freezing, but usually the lowest it gets is in the 40s. And then it goes back up to a nice pleasant 60 or 70 for the rest of December. It gets ridiculously hot during the summer, but you can avoid most of that by spending summers elsewhere. </p>
<p>The mens and womens ultimate teams are fairly popular club sports, or for a less intense, but still fun, experience, you can always play IM ultimate or find a pick-up game going on.</p>
<p>Thelonius covered everything really well, but I'd like to add to number three.</p>
<p>While a good fifth of the campus is paved for a parking lot, that prevents the parking lots from being scattered throughout the campus--you can walk from most places on campus to most other places on campus without encountering a parking lot.</p>
<p>Most of the architecture is consistent across campus, with the exception of a few buildings; the newer buildings have an updated version of the "Byzantine-Romanesque" architecture of the early buildings. With the exception of the "NASA triplets," the buildings are all pretty good-looking. Lovett and Sid also deviate a bit from the original architecture, but I think they somehow add to the campus' charm.</p>
<p>I'm posting some pictures that I've taken so you can see the campus without the biased eye of a professional photographer--the pictures are still pretty:</p>
<p>wait one more question:
i know that in a lot of schools, there is a huge number of pre-med students, but most of them end up not applying to medical school. Is that the same case with Rice's pre-med students?</p>
<p>I don't know what the numbers are, but it's been my experience that a lot of Rice students come in as pre-med and then decide that that's not actually the career they want to pursue. With most of my friends who have done that, it wasn't fear of not being admitted to med-school that changed their mind, but rather the realization that being a doctor wasn't what they wanted to do in life (or that the fact that their parents wanted them to be a doctor wasn't a strong enough reason to become one).</p>
<p>Rice is pretty well-respected when it comes to medical school admissions, so coming from Rice with a good GPA and a good background of ECs and such gives you a good chance of getting accepted to a medical school (not necessarily your top choice, though). Among those from Rice that don't get into medical school their first time around, it can be for a reason as simple as that they applied too late in the admissions season, and that goes for anyone, Rice or not. </p>
<p>Like thelonius said, the reason that most incoming pre-meds change their plans is that they realize pre-med isn't for them. The really cool thing about being pre-med at Rice is that opportunities to get clinical and research experiences are everywhere - on the Rice campus, across the street at the med center, via Rice-organized trips, etc. If you're an incoming pre-med, I'd recommend trying to get clinical experience right away by volunteering, shadowing a doctor, etc. Likewise, if you're a pre-med interested in research/just interested in research in general, you can try to get a research job either at Rice (non-clinical) or at any institution in the medical center (mostly clinical). </p>
<p>That being said, there are some classes at Rice in the sciences/that encompass the pre-med curriculum that can be weed-out classes if you go in with a "I already know this stuff and don't need to study - I'll be fine!" attitude. These include, and are not limited to, physics, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry.</p>
