<p>Do you need to apply to a certain residential college, in order to get into one, or are you specifically assigned a living area after filling out a survey of some sort? Do current college students review your application and choose for you?
Oh, and if there is some sort of application process involved in choosing a residential college, how difficult is Brown College to get into?</p>
<p>You are randomly assigned a residential college, unless you have a direct familial connection (parent or sibling) to a specific one, in which case you can choose either to be in that college or to be randomly assigned to one of the others. As for Brown College, I can't see why you'd want to be there anyway.</p>
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<p>Oh really?</p>
<p>My Aunt lived in Brown College in the 80's and I know she chose that dorm, because my grandfather insisted she live in an all-girls dorm. I checked the university's website, and found out that Brown has been a co-ed residential college since 1987. (Not unexpected, just didn't know until now) So, I don't know which residential collge is most desireable, if Brown isn't all that great.</p>
<p>Well I'm not 100% sure but I think it's supposed to be a sibling or direct lineage, so an aunt wouldn't count. As for Brown being "undesirable," DorianMode said that because he/she is in Martel and as a general rule Rice students will bash any college other than their own if given the chance. I myself am in Brown and if you do find out that aunts count for college requests, then PM me and I can tell you all the wonderful things about Brown.</p>
<p>Residential colleges are randomly assigned unless you have/had a (I think direct) family member in a college and want to be assigned there.</p>
<p>You shouldn't care too much about what college you get into. A few of the South colleges are slightly older in terms of buildings and living amenities but make up for it by having a great culture. :D But even the South colleges are getting renovations done over the next couple of years, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue.</p>
<p>Of late the number of college transfers have increased in number as well (at least in my knowledge). So if you totally do not like one college, you can transfer to another one.</p>
<p>All of the colleges are great, and whichever one you're in is the best. You apply to Rice just like you would to any other school; when you choose to go here you get randomly assigned to one of the nine colleges, and you live there all four years. It's fantastic — my absolute favorite thing about Rice.</p>
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Of late the number of college transfers have increased in number as well (at least in my knowledge). So if you totally do not like one college, you can transfer to another one.
Do you mean residential college transfers? I wasn't aware you could do that. Good to know, even though I'm totally excited for the whole 4-year residential college experience and don't plan on changing once I get my assignment.</p>
<p>Very few people transfer, and you shouldn't even be thinking about that at this point.</p>
<p>You're not allowed to transfer. End of story.</p>
<p>I thought when the new colleges came on-line, that students who wanted to move out of their present colleges were allowed to do so, or at least request to do so? That's what happened with some students when Martel opened---or am I understanding that incorrectly.</p>
<p>I believe that they're still trying to come up with a plan for populating the new colleges. The dean of undergraduate's office doesn't seem to be that big a fan of the way that Martel was originally populated, so they're considering other options. One idea that's been thrown around is giving Will Rice and Baker double sized freshmen classes in fall '09 (they're both moving to the new colleges while their buildings are receiving extensive renovations) and then using half of those freshmen from each college to have some non-freshmen the next year. I'm sure more concrete plans will come out over the next year though.</p>
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Changing your college and having a great residential college experience are not conflicting issues. It just makes sense sometimes to transfer, especially if you find that all your friends are at a particular college. If you're going to get on-campus housing it's by college and I'd think you'd rather want to live with people you get along instead of some random person.</p>
<p>All I'm saying is that understand that the college system is flexible enough that you don't feel "shafted". ;)</p>
<p>The process of transferring colleges is for special circumstances when there are clear presentable reasons why one would be more comfortable at another college, and the switch has to be approved by masters of both colleges. You can't just get assigned to Jones and then say "oh, well, I really wanted to be in Sid so I think I'll transfer." That undermines the entire system. In fact, even mentioning that transferring is a possibility to pre-freshmen is irresponsible and dangerous.</p>
<p>To any of you who are coming to Rice in the future: you will get assigned to a college, and whether you had your heart set on it at first or not, you will go through O-week and if you half even a half-open mind then you will love your college. Do NOT consider transfer as a "way out." As far as numbers go, there are usually only 10-20 transfers each year which is nothing compared to the student body of 3000, and I guarantee that all of those transfers had very good reasons.</p>
<p>EDIT: This is for already existing colleges. Whatever mess comes up from opening the new colleges is a different story.</p>
<p>I agree that it would be completely against the point to get your college assignment and automatically cry "transfer" because of whatever preconceptions you had. Because college selections are random, it honestly does NOT matter to which one you are assigned. What did seem a little impractical about the res college system was the fact that if you end up wanting to room with someone from another college, you are forced to move off campus. Or, if for some reason you should have a major falling out with a large portion of your college, you'd be stuck with them for four years. I mean, most things can be resolved, but who knows. I don't really foresee the latter happening, but I was kind of wondering in the "what if..." sense.</p>
<p>In extenuating circumstances, you can transfer. However, as said above there's no reason to think about it. It's very hard, and it needs a very good reason (two people at my college that I know of wanted to transfer, but their requests were denied). </p>
<p>In any case, if you're like 95% of Rice students, you're going to come on campus to your college during Oweek and you're going to think that your college is the greatest thing that's happened since sliced bread (or if you come to Wiess, you'll know that Wiess is the greatest thing that's happened since sliced bread ;-).). If you do end up getting into Wiess, pm me, because I'll be seeing you around next year a lot.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, you're going to love your college (if not everyone in it and everything about it), so don't worry about which college you get into. Every college has something to be proud of, so you'll be fine wherever you go.</p>
<p>or if you come to Wiess, you'll know that Wiess is the greatest thing that's happened since sliced bread</p>
<p>greater actually. </p>
<p>dont worry about your college. You will like it. Can almost guarantee it</p>
<p>Just a quick point about the "what if you want to room with someone in another college" question. I had at least three or four very close friends in each of the other colleges and I never considered transferring just so I could room with them. It was awesome to have close friends I could go visit and have sort of a "home away from home." </p>
<p>Antarius is right ... you'll love your college. Don't sweat it.</p>