<p>I think he was being sarcastic LOL.</p>
<p>well yes and no. i know what rice is but im trying to say that i think emory is tons better prolly because i have never known anyone who has applied or gone to rice at all. (VERY VERY rare in NJ)</p>
<p>It seems many midwest elites are less well known. Hardly anyone from my school applied to WashU, Northwestern, and/or Rice.</p>
<p>Sorry for stating the obvious. I just wanted to post on this board again. =]</p>
<p>ROFL, Rice Rejects go to Emory, or at least Rice rejects from Houston go to Emory, because if you live in Houston its really hard to get into Rice(they want to increase their geographic diversity)…I got rejected from Rice E.D., my friend got rejected from Rice with a 2300, and my other friend with a 34 Act was also rejected…and we were all Accepted by Emory(well, I was waitlisted, but my friends got in without being waitlisted)…we all live in Houston’s suburbs…</p>
<p>The same may be true for kids that live in the Atlanta area and who want to attend Emory I guess…</p>
<p>I live in Missouri and no one I know even thought about applying to Rice. Only one person in my school thought about applying to Rice but in the end he didn’t because “it wasn’t worth the trouble.”</p>
<p>i agree with ImReachingForIt…i think Rice is very obscure to those who dont live in texas…thats prolly why they trying to increase yield from other states. Emory, tufts, WashU, Chicago and Northwestern were all very popular this year in my community (North Jersey)</p>
<p>I’m from Texas (Dallas/Ft Worth area) and you’d be surprised at the amount of people I know in Texas that have never even heard of Rice, which says a lot</p>
<p>so i guess we agree that Rice is a relative “unknown” even though its admission rates are selective</p>
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<p>Nah, it just says that they have a DII-quality football team.</p>
<p>If you want to praise rice and bash emory go on the rice thread maybe you didn’t get in cause your attitude :)</p>
<p>Whose prasing/bashing emory or rice?..We are just talking about two peer schools…</p>
<p>@afischer:</p>
<p>As Colleges00701 aptly stated, no one is bashing Emory. If you think I’m bashing Emory, I am not; it has been one of my favorite schools since freshman year of high school. And, for your information, I was admitted into Emory back in January, and almost decided to enroll at Emory. I just wanted to clear up some ignorance about Rice.</p>
<p>Rice and Emory, imo, are severely underrated compared to schools, for example, Duke and WUSTL (which both are greatly overrated). RU and EU are equally excellent schools.</p>
<p>I don’t like the name WUSTL. At all.</p>
<p>Emory does get some recognition, at least. It’s usually one of the higher backups to people applying to Ivys and Ivy equivalents.</p>
<p>@I’m Reaching for It and Hilsa:
I totally agree with your statements… I do very much feel that both Rice and Emory are underrated schools. However, this is probably due to the fact that both universities are relatively new. Rice was founded in 1912, whereas Emory’s Atlanta campus was founded at the time of World War I. </p>
<p>At the same time, I also believe both schools on the rise. Although Emory has slightly more name-recognition than Rice, I feel both schools, within 10-20 years, will reach the prestige of the Ivies. Especially with the growth associated at both universities, there is no better time to enroll at either Rice or Emory.</p>
<p>And I do agree with your statements about Duke and WUSTL… they are both overrated. Add to that list of overrated schools the following: Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Brown. I felt that WUSTL was more like a business than a university, maybe because of the way the admissions office treats the application process as a business. WashU is overly concerned with its yield rate, and I have heard they practice some questionable admission practices.</p>