<p>I know Rice students are extremely brilliant and have the intellectual capacity to get accepted to other great colleges.
which colleges did you turn down (or is about to) for Rice?</p>
<p>I turned down Duke, Emory, WashU, Northwestern, Pomona, Ohio State and Case… it was very, very hard turning down Duke. But Rice will be awesome nonetheless!</p>
<p>BTW, I created a thread about this on the Rice University Class of 2013 facebook group… more people have posted on there. The thread name is “I chose Rice over ______”</p>
<p>hey slik nik. You finished your AP Gov test? Wanna chat on FB?</p>
<p>And I turned down Fordham U for Rice… but I applied ED</p>
<p>Cornell, Emory, CMU, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, U of Arkansas
It was close, I almost ended up at U of A cause of the full ride they offered</p>
<p>My S turned down USC, Swarthmore, UT, Notre Dame, Duke, WUSTL, Claremont McKenna.
It was a hard decision for him, but as time goes by he keeps saying “I know I made the right decision.”</p>
<p>I turned down Northwestern (Murphy Scholar), Cornell (more finaid), and Johns Hopkins (Bloomberg Scholar-no loans). </p>
<p>Rice is <3.</p>
<p>if it means anything… I turned down the opportunity to apply to</p>
<p>Duke, WashU, Colby, Cornell, and Boston College. I applied ED but was working on my apps for these schools. Not finishing them was the coolest thing I did. It was so much fun finishing in Dec</p>
<p>^ yes it really was. I got in ED too, one of the best days of my life. I would have applied to Duke, Cornell, Emory and Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Wow, most people on here have a very strong list of schools! </p>
<p>Nobody has turned down HYPSM yet. Turning down Duke for Rice shouldn’t be that hard. Rice is just as fantastic as any best school out there especially for undergrad. Just thought Rice is pretty underrated.</p>
<p>^christinewong turned down Princeton and Harvard (sorry for putting you on the spot!!). And I’ve heard of others who turn down top schools for Rice, usually because the merit money they receive (as well as the AWESOME Rice community).</p>
<p>I’m going to be a junior, but I ended up turning down Stanford, Duke, Caltech, Georgia Tech, and a slew of other state schools.</p>
<p>^I’m not surprised that people would choose Rice over Stanford. They have a LOT in common… weather (warm), architecture (Spanish), academics (engineering), and atmosphere (happiest students). But it can be hard to turn down the prestige of Stanford for Rice. However, Rice is more undergrad-focused and people are a little more down-to-Earth.</p>
<p>(Sorry, that was a totally random comment.)</p>
<p>Stanford has California… If only rice was in California… <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Stanford also has Michelle Wie :).</p>
<p>But Rice has the awesome Rice community… including Modulation</p>
<p>Turned down UNC, Duke, UVa and my state school (full ride+ cash) for Rice.</p>
<p>Ha, it’s funny how so many people turned down their state school with full rides for Rice with less aid and I actually got 4x more merit aid at Rice than my state school. This is probably because I wasn’t a national merit scholar, which is a huge for my state school, apparently…</p>
<p>And that’s way too much extraneous info.</p>
<p>My state school (OSU) offered me squat compared to Rice, but that’s cuz they only offer 10 full ride scholarships to 1000 people who compete. But then again, OSU is way cheaper than private schools. Luckily, Rice is only going to be slightly more expensive than Ohio State would be… nothing like getting a world-class education at a state school price (no offense to Ohio State)!</p>
<p>My city schools only cost 4000/yr</p>
<p>ucla or riceee?</p>