<p>Rice and Dartmouth... similarities... differences... is one any more prestigious/wellknown/better than the other??</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>I think they are completely opposite if you ask me besides being relatively small compared to peer institutions but Rice is even smaller. Dartmouth is defintely located in an isolated and cold place, Hanover, New Hampshire and Rice is located near the 4th largest city in the country--Houston. Weather=complete opposite, Houston verse New Hampshire. Academics, I know Rice is reveered for its sciences but I think Dartmouth has the edge in the humanities, but I could be wrong, that is what i heard. I think in terms of reputation, Dartmouth is a little bit more well known but I guess that really depends on where you're from. If you are from NY, Dartmouth has the edge in the prestige but down South and West, I have no clue. Dartmouth is an ivy league after all, which defintely helps. Good luck at both of them.</p>
<p>frats at d-mouth, vs. colleges at rice is a major difference, i think. Rice also has a larger varsity sports program. The quarter system at d-mouth is very different from the more traditional semester system at rice.</p>
<p>Rice is D1 athletics- with a national championship baseball team (2003). Dartmouth has strong athletics, too, but it is DIII and no scholarships.</p>
<p>MomOfWildChild, I think Dartmouth is D1, especially being that it is an Ivy League.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>Dartmouth has lacrosse. Rice is close to beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p>Texas and New Hampshire both have no state income tax</p>
<p>This same thread is in the Dartmouth board.</p>
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Rice is located near the 4th largest city in the country--Houston
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-Dog 87</p>
<p>Actually, Rice is IN Houston, not just near it. </p>
<p>Rice pros-weather, houston, small class, good sports program and support by students, awesome academics
Rice cons-not as well known as Dartmouth</p>
<p>Dart pros-its an IVY so therefore awesome academics and more well known (bad grammar i know)
Dart cons- weather, NH, no real "spirit" (in terms of students caring about sports)</p>
<p>so by my short and general list, Rice seems better. but i may be biased. i mean look what board i'm on.</p>
<p>Rice is not far from downtown houston, coqui - seriously it's easy to get downtown (light rail!), but the area around rice is better than downtown anyway.</p>
<p>jenskate1</p>
<p>huh? haha, i think you misunderstood me. i know Rice is almost downtown. i was saying that Dog87's comment that rice is simply "near" houston was inaccurate becuase its more than just near houston, it's actually almost in downtown. i've been to rice (unofficially, passed by) about three times already. anyway, simple misunderstanding, i think:)</p>
<p>lol, i misread your comment! I thought you said that rice is IN houston, just not near it (instead of "not just near it"), and that you were commenting on houston's sprawl. sorry!</p>
<p>Sorry- I had a brain freeze. Of course Dartmouth is D1. I always have the Ivys in a separate athletic category in my mind since there are no scholarships.</p>
<p>Dartmouth gets over half it's students from east coast states.
New England 20.7%
Mid-Atlantic 29.9%
Texas is the size of most of the east coast. Pulling students from all over Texas is about like getting most of your students from east coast states. The diversity is pretty similar.
Rice 35% students of color
Dartmouth 31% students of color</p>
<p>"The quarter system at d-mouth"</p>
<p>its sorta like a quarter system, but its better to just refer to it as the d-plan.</p>
<p>and really? dartmouth doesnt have school spirit? i thought it had HUGE school spirit? how could it not? its all everyone has to care about in Hanover.</p>
<p>similarity-both amazing schools that i applied to. both schools that i am expecting to be disappointed by come april. :(</p>
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<p>Not to be negative or anything, but BEAUTIFUL beaches is not exactly the description I would use for Galveston. But it IS a beach, and it is only about an hour away from Rice..... you can get to a little better beach if you are willing to drive a couple more hours.</p>
<p>(this question was also posed on the Dartmouth Board. I posted these stats there and repost them here. Though, I should add, you cannot make a bad choice between either of these schools. They are both great in their own way.)</p>
<p>Bandit_TX is correct: </p>
<p>app. 50% of Dartmouth students come from the 12 different states he mentioned which is the most populous region of the country.</p>
<p>One of those states, New York, has about the same population of Texas
app. 20 million.</p>
<p>New York:......19.2 million
Penn:.............12.3 million
New Jersey:....8.6 million
Maryland:.......5.5 Million
Del.:..............0.8 million
Mass.:...........6.4 million
Conn.:...........3.3 million
Maine:...........1.2 million
N H:..............1.1 million
Ver.:.............0.5 million</p>
<p>Total: app. 60 million</p>
<p>Texas: app. 20 million</p>
<p>One may also understand that there is more to distinguish
Maine from Maryland or New York, than
Huston from Dallas or San Antonio.</p>
<p>If, on the other hand, by size you mean to say land mass you are right, they are very close.</p>
<p>I should add:
New York contributes the most students to Dartmouth, followed by
California: not a New England or Mid-Atlantic state.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that there is more to distinguish Maine from Maryland than the east Texas piney woods from south Texas desert, or west Texas mountains, or north Texas high plains, or the Texas hill country around Austin, or Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Counties with a population of one person every 200 square miles vs. the 4th and 7th largest cities in the nation. Counties where you can't get elected without a Spanish surname vs. Dallas. East Texas is a lot more like Lousiana, north Texas is like Oklahoma, west Texas is like New Mexico and Arizona, the coast is different yet, and the hill country is unique to Texas. Rice has students from all 50 states and 81 countres.</p>
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<p>Like Lowell George sang,"Texas is a world all of its own, and those feat'll steer you wrong sometimes."</p>
<p>Bandit_TX</p>
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