<p>What are schools with a smaller size, pretty campus, d1 football and baseball that people goet excited about and many people go to the games, flexible distribution requirements, small classes, strong academics, plenty of parties, something like the rice owls marching band, and some sort of cool unifying thing like Rice's residential college system.</p>
<p>i've heard so far that duke, uva, and stanford meet this criteria somewhat as they are schools where you can party a lot and go to well-attended athletic contests even though there are strong academics even though they aren't as small as rice , is this correct?</p>
<p>please please please suggest me schools I need to finish my college list soon.</p>
<p>so far i'm sort of considering applying to american university, johns hopkins, darmouth, ut plan 2, vandy, brown, penn, cornell, uva, duke, weslayan (I know, very reach-heavy), but nothing is set in stone.</p>
<p>You could consider.... Duke University (NC), University of Notre Dame (IN), Boston College (MA), Lehigh University (PA), College of the Holy Cross (MA), Vanderbilt University (TN), University of Virginia (VA), University of Miami (FL), Elon University (NC), Villanova University (PA), Wake Forest University (NC), Tulane University (LA), and Clemson University (SC).</p>
<p>i liked hopkins when i toured, but i didn't get the sense that the kids liked to party or have fun as much, maybe i'm wrong.</p>
<p>at rice you can party a lot and go to awsome populated football and baseball games.</p>
<p>I didn't like georgetown at all, didn't seem like much school spirit, campus did not strike a chord with me, not enough grass, freen or trees, seemed too big and unfriendly.</p>
<p>It's really annoying that practically every school except the impossible-to-get-into Yale doesn't have a residential college system.</p>
<p>and even similar schools like Duke and Notre Dame don't have Rice's small size</p>
<p>I guess it seems like Rice or bust...</p>
<p>I'm exaggerating but it's annoying that Rice is such a unique institution in its combination of a residential college system, small but not too small size, awesome d1 athletics, strong academics, small class sizes, undergrad focus, pretty green campus, and party-if-you-feel-like-it atmosphere.</p>
<p>or maybe I'm wrong and there are some other universities that have that combination?</p>
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Rice has always stuck out as an outlier... it's alway like... Duke, Penn, Williams, and Oh Yeah, Rice... but it's kinda different
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<p>I agree. Rice gives off a "different" kind of vibe but in a very positive way, at least in my opinion. I consider it to be one of the most underrated schools on this board, mostly because it offers an undergraduate experience that is second to none among top universities.</p>
<p>My daughter is a Rice graduate and we keep trying to come up with comparable schools. Vanderbilt has a lot of the same strengths, but has a Greek system that is very strong (not a plus, in my opinion), and has a better athletic scene (this IS a plus). Nashville is an awesome place.</p>
<p>Duke, Northwestern, and Holy Cross. Holy Cross has a strong sports tradition and very strong school spirit. HC has a nice campus and is less than 1 hour from Boston.</p>