<p>My daughter was accepted to Rice and WashU and plans to major in English, then go on to medical school. Any recommendations on which school would be better?</p>
<p>Is she Rice/Baylor?</p>
<p>No, she wanted to leave her options open for where to go for medical school.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about Rice, but Wash U is a wonderful college. If she is interested in going to medical school, as a freshmen, D will get to view, visit, and possibly work/research at one of the best medical schools in the country.</p>
<p>How does grade deflation impact gpa at either school? Anyone know med school acceptance rates? Average pre-med gpa?</p>
<p>2006 Rice med school admission stats: 116 applied 102 accepted. Almost as important, the 116 applicants were from a class of about 600 (after subtracting architecture and conservatory grads).</p>
<p>Research opportunities for undergrads at Rice are abundant as Rice is part of the Texas Medical Center (Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's, Methodist Hosp., MD Anderson Cancer Center, St. Luke's Episcopal, Texas Heart Institute and others are across the street from Rice in the largest medical complex in the world.)</p>
<p>I am a rice senior. All i have to add is that unlike WashU, undergrads are the main thing at Rice. There is no giant hospital/prestigious med school associated with the school that will be gobbling up undergraduate tuition dollars. Also, WashU is known to be one of those schools where all of the undergrads are premed (being that a large part of the school's reputation stems from the fantastic medical facility), Rice is more diverse in that sense in that only about 1/6 students is premed (although more than that start out premed).</p>