<p>I was curious to know if it is easier to get into certain schools compared to other schools at Rice. I imagine that the Brown Engineering School is quite difficult and Shepard is stellar.</p>
<p>But what about Humanities and Social Sciences? they dont have quite the same 'prestige', but are they still about as difficult to get into? For example, I applied to School of Social Sciences. If I had the exact same stats as somone who applied to, lets say Brown Engineering, would my odds be better because of the level of difficulty and number of applicants?</p>
<p>very hard to say. ive heard that humanities is actually the hardest to get into based only on acceptance rate because it is a much smaller school, and proportionally they get more applicants than all the others. but this still says little because it is a different body if applicants than a body that includes potential engineers. overall though i dont think it changes too much. even music students have to be admitted by rice first.</p>
<p>I thought that it was pretty easy to change majors between schools if you're not in architecture. I applied as a biochem major but I want to change it to bio engineering ... will that be a problem?</p>
<p>Don't worry! switching schools (except into music or architecture) is literally a non-issue. I know, since I switched from natural sciences to social sciences. Really, it's NOT A BIG DEAL. At all.</p>
<p>You don't get admitted to schools; you get admitted to Rice. They know that you are probably going to change majors! (This doesn't apply to archis and music students... )</p>