Rice Engineering versus Fu Foundation

College Search & Selection
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<p>Which is better?</p>

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<p>i dunno, but i feel like rice would be the better choice. fu foundation is probably less selective?</p>

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<p>Fu Foundation is probably also selective, but I'd have to say Rice. Columbia is a good school and probably also has good engineering, but Rice is definitely better known for engineering (especially undergraduate).</p>

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<p>I would go for the environment you like better - middle of NYC, or more suburbany campus? They will breed different college experiences.</p>

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<p>Suburbany campus? Rice is definitely an urban campus.</p>

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<p>Not really - its near an urban center, but when you're on campus, you feel like you're on a campus - you dont have skyscrapers next door.</p>

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<p>Columbia doesn't have skyscrapers next door either...it's up on 120th street, skyscrapers are all below central park basically</p>

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<p>Hmm... I don't know that much about engineering, but my dad's company recruits out of both of them, so I'd just go for fit.</p>

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<p>skyscrapers was an exaggeration. it does feel much more big-city like though. i have a sibling there and a close friend at Rice - they are not the same in terms of being in a city.</p>

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<p>I was waitlisted at Fu last year.</p>

<p>I got into Cornell and took myself off the waitlist. The one thing I really don't like about Fu is they make it almost impossible to transfer to the regular college should you decide that engineering is not for you (this was a big deal for me because I wasn't sure if I wanted to major in biology or biomedical engineering).</p>

<p>Secondly, you have to take the core....which wouldn't be a big deal if you were in any other program of study. But, engineering takes up a lot of course time, and the core eats up most of your electives...</p>

<p>I think Fu would be a lot better if they didn't require engineers to take the core, and were a little more unitfied with Columbia university (it seems too much like a seperate entity to me). It also doesn't give me warm fuzzy feelings that some of their programs are not ABET acredited...the standard for most engineering programs.</p>