<p>CAN anybudy say something about the school? Is the course interesting? what about the acceptance rate for international students? Thanks</p>
<p>Rice's architecture school is a six-year program. You do your first four years as a fully-incorporated undergraduate at Rice; you're a member of a residential college just like any other student, except that you spend a lot of time in studio in Anderson Hall. After four years, you grauate with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. For your fifth year, Rice helps set you up with a preceptorship at an architecture firm somewhere. The most coveted are in places like Paris, Florence, and New York, but there are also some in less exciting places, like Houston. One of my really good friends is currently doing his preceptorship in Baltimore. Your sixth year, you come back to Rice, and you do one more year of studies, and then you graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture.</p>
<p>6 years?..seriously?</p>
<p>Does NYSkins1 sound like he's kidding? Rice's archi program is very intense and one of the best in the nation.</p>
<p>I'm not so sure about the international student acceptance rate, but I think it's more difficult to get into the architecture school (and the music school, at that) than the overall university because there's such a small number of students that they will accept.</p>
<p>Can you transfer into the architecture school if you apply into the Natural Sciences college and decide you aren't that interested after one or two years, or is that too late?</p>
<p>You can, but you'll probably have to stick around an extra year, since the Archi program is so rigidly structured. It also requires a separate application, unlike moving between, say the social sciences and engineering. For all intents and purposes, there is no separation between the four main academic schools. But there is separation between those four and the Music and Architecture schools.</p>
<p>There have been a few people to transfer in to the archi program, but I wouldn't advise planning on it. You still have to do the full 6 years to get your BArch (so 7 years total if you made up the decision to transfer by the application deadline in December/January your freshman year). </p>
<p>And you have to be accepted - They take less than 30 students a year and are usually considered in the top two architecture schools in the country.</p>
<p>this is probably a basic question but, I'll ask anyway. If I apply to the architecture school, is it possible to still be accepted to Rice but not the architecture school? And if so, in that case would I have to apply to another school and how does that process work?</p>