<p>I noticed on the common application that Rice wants to look at other schools that I am applying to. Will they automatically look down on my application if I included "competitor" schools on the list? (i.e. Cornell, Brown, Harvard)</p>
<p>No, they won't. Be honest; they won't not let you in because you're less likely to accept a spot--Rice consideres Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, UChicago, etc. its peer schools, and wants the kind of students who would turn down one of those schools to come to Rice. Those are the type of kids who excel, since they really want to be there.</p>