please help me decide whether or not to ed to hopkins or rice

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<p>i love rice's residential college system, small size, campus, d1 football, baseball, and basketball, i live in houston so it would be nice to be able to see my extended houston family but id also like to be able to broaden my horizons, and i love baltimore and dc</p>

<p>i love hopkins's small size, campus, d1 lacrosse.</p>

<p>hopkins has a 46 percent ed acceptance rate and 19 percent reg acceptance rate (the college rep said getting in ed is just as hard as reg decision because more qualified candidates are in the ed round and the number of ed applicants accepted is capped at 30 percent of the freshman class, but i don't believe him. after all, the penn rep lied about that too and the early admissions game book proves her otherwise)</p>

<p>rice has a 30 percent ed acceptance rate opposed to 18 percent reg acceptance rate, and im a legacy.</p>

<p>i love both schools a lot, so im going to apply to whichever one im more likely to get into.</p>

<p>so, am i more likely to get into rice or hopkins?</p>

<p>please help, thanks</p>

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<p>Hopkin's small size?? Aren't they considered a medium, perhaps large, school? they have an population of around 18,000 or something like that. Rice on the other hand has only a population of around 5,000. That's a pretty big difference.</p>

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<p>Hopkins SAT and ACT scores are a little bit lower than Rice's. Hopkins probably does not have a huge number of Texans, and Rice has plenty. Being legacy at Rice should help, though. They are close- chances are, if you can get ED at one, you can also get it at the other. Pick the one that you really like. Hopkins has more name recognition, but Rice contacts would be better if you plan to stay in Texas.</p>

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<p>i need more help please and more advice thanks</p>

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<p>I think you have the better shot at Rice because of legacy, even though being from Texas is a disadvantage, as mentioned above.</p>

<p>It depends on your stats as well. If you are borderline, then definitely go for Rice.</p>

<p>Note, I don't have any special knowledge of how Rice handles legacies, I am guessing based on how colleges generally handle legacies.</p>

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<p>a little above average for rice, 2170 and retaking, sat 2s above 80th percentile</p>

<p>also, rice seems to like applicants from our houston high school <a href="http://www.sjs.org/ftpimages/80/download/download_group633_id275938.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sjs.org/ftpimages/80/download/download_group633_id275938.pdf&lt;/a> as we send 9 a year there out of a class of 138. my guidance counseler says it's an advantage to be from our high school actually, i think he might be right cuz we are just about the best high school in texas </p>

<p>lol rice really does support legacies one of my teachers showed me this
The</a> Chronicle: 3/14/2003: Legacy Admissions Are Defensible, Because the Process Can't Be 'Fair'</p>

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<p>Sounds as if you have more affinity with Rice- legacy, local ties, better sports, safer campus, residential colleges, etc. I would probably go with Rice myself.</p>

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<p>yeah, i 'm going with rice, after my tour a week ago i decided it was perfect</p>

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Hopkin's small size?? Aren't they considered a medium, perhaps large, school? they have an population of around 18,000 or something like that. Rice on the other hand has only a population of around 5,000. That's a pretty big difference.

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JHU offers a broad range of academic programs at several different campuses and centers scattered throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. This includes many part-time professional degree programs for working adults. If you added up all of the enrollment in all of these programs, then yes, it would approach 20,000. </p>

<p>But for undergraduates, "Johns Hopkins" typically means the Homewood Campus in central Baltimore, which houses the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering. There are around 4,600 undergrads and 1,700 grad students in these schools, or about 6,300 total. It is in fact a small campus, by research university standards. </p>

<p>Rice has about 3,050 undergrads and 2,150 grad students, or about 5,200 total. So Rice is even smaller than JHU-Homewood, but not by very much.</p>