Where do Rice graduates go?

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<p>In terms of grad school, med school, or law school, where do a lot of Rice graduates end up? Do many end up at places like Stanford, Caltech, etc etc, or do they go to schools of similar standing like Emory or Vand?</p>

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<p>If you do well at Rice, you can go anywhere. It may sound trite, but I mean it. The only thing limiting your grad school prospects as a Rice graduate is your own transcript.</p>

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<p>I found 2007 information:
<a href=“http://cspd.rice.edu/emplibrary/Post%20Graduate%20Survey%202007.pdf[/url]”>http://cspd.rice.edu/emplibrary/Post%20Graduate%20Survey%202007.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>And here’s the webpage that has links to the Post-Graduate Surveys conducted for the Classes of 2004 - 2007. [Center</a> For Student Professional Development - Rice University](<a href=“http://cspd.rice.edu/surveys]Center”>http://cspd.rice.edu/surveys)</p>

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I agree that you can go anywhere with a Rice degree. The survey mentioned above just looks at undergrads a week before they graduate - so it looks at where the kids who reply to the survey START OFF. Not where they end up 3 or 5 years later. In the case of my daughter, she might have replied “undecided”. She ended up spending the next almost two years in a foreign country, first studying (paid by Rice), now working for a NGO with refugees. She will likely go to law or grad school in the next few years, but that will not be shown on this survey. Also, some students start out with big multinational Houston companies, then transfer on to other parts of the corporations in other locations (Houston has more fortune 500 companies now than any other city in the US), so don’t look at the survey and think, “Texas? Why do so many students end up in Texas?” The survey only looks at where students think they will be a week before undergrad graduation. :)</p>

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<p>I read somewhere that 70 percent of Rice students get into their 1st or 2nd choice graduate school… this stat was also on the admission website. Don’t know how old it is though.</p>

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<p>Rice is very well known among academic fields in anything. The general public may not be super aware of it but the admission councils know. Among get my friends at Rice, they have got to Princeton, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, CalTech for humanities, law, medicine and science degrees.</p>

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<p>cmon now, you make Rice, Vandy and Emory sound like second-rate schools compared to the Stanfords and Caltechs like you point out!</p>

<p>I brought my Rice BioE degree to Vanderbilt, where I now have an MS and am working on my doctorate. And I’m very happy with my decision to come here, thank you.</p>

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<p>martel_pride has an excellent point… Emory and Vanderbilt have excellent grad schools. Even if you have to “settle” (as you are making it sound like Emory and Vandy are quite inferior to Stanford and Caltech… they are not), you would still be going to a top grad school. As I stated before, you work hard here, do well academically, and make the most of your time here, you will probably have a great array of grad schools to choose from when you graduate.</p>

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<p>haha, it’s my californian bias :P</p>