Residential College System Like Rice?

Parents Forum
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<p>Can anyone suggest schools with a similar set-up? Yale if I recall...any others? Thanks.</p>

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<p>Princeton? Miami?</p>

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<p>UC San Diego has a similar residential college system.</p>

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<p>Harvard......</p>

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<p>UC Santa Cruz.</p>

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<p>Santa Clara University</p>

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<p>Whitman in Washington too. Yale was the original I think--students often live in the same setting for their whole 4 years. CalTech also has an interesting residential college system.</p>

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<p>The originals: Cambridge and Oxford.</p>

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<p>What makes Rice's and Yale's systems unique from systems like that at Harvard is that you are a member for your whole college career, and after. There is very little switching around and people are really cohesive.</p>

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<p>A small undergraduate student-body is also conducive to the cohesiveness that jenskate described.</p>

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<p>What is the "set up"?</p>

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<p>Smith is also set up that way.</p>

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<p>University of Michigan has a residential college.</p>

<p>Michigan State University has two of them -- one in social science (James Madison College) and another in natural science (Lyman Briggs) -- and is developing another one in arts.</p>

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<p>Actually, Harvard's is nearly identical to Yale's and Rice's. Rice is the only one of the three where you actually live in your college freshman year. Yale assigns you a college, but you live and eat with other freshman in old campus. Harvard doesn't assign you a college until spring, and again you live and eat with other freshman in the yard. Once you are assigned a college at Harvard, it's all the same.</p>

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<p>Here is a link to a list of residential colleges worldwide.
<a href="http://collegiateway.org/colleges/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegiateway.org/colleges/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>University of Toronto is on a college system. You apply to one of the many colleges at the time of acceptance to the university. Each has its own dorms, dining halls, cafes, pubs, student newspaper, student governing bodies, and, importantly, Deans, etc. Students live, eat, socialize easily with others in their college. Classes, however, are available to be taken at any of the university's colleges.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help!!</p>

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<p>Just to add another one, Caltech? Not really sure what the system at Rice is like..</p>

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<p>Caltech has 7 (soon to be 8) houses. Freshmen spend a week having meals at each house, then turn in choices. The upper classmen in each house also select who they think will be a good fit, and after a week, houses assignments given. Within a few days, roommates are then chosen.</p>

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<p>Michigan State's James Madison College and Lyman Briggs School are academically rigorous...</p>

<p>... the 3rd res coll mackinaw speaks of is planned to be have Great Books/classics-type curriculum, with a study abroad aspect and end with a thesis. And classic, older (30s/40s) dorm will be closed next year and rehabbed and expanded for the new school. Here's a link to s student news article about the new college:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=31962%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=31962&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>