<p>I heard that Rice is known for its intense workload and its
around the clock studying. Is it true? If so, would it also be more difficult
to get into medical school from Rice than say Northwestern or Emory? Thanks alot.</p>
<p>People here definitely know how to work hard when necessary, but I think the majority of the student body is very good at balancing a challenging workload with a social life. As for the med school question, I have no idea.</p>
<p>Hard workload, never do it =). </p>
<p>I honestly spend 3+ hrs on a single math problem, but I'm a math major in an honors course. Oh, and we have, from what I hear, a 98% acceptance rate to first choice grad schools and like 90% to med. Something absurd.</p>
<p>We need Jenskate to weigh in! That being said, my daughter's experience is that people study hard, but also spend a lot of time playing sports, hanging out with friends, and having fun.</p>
<p>As for med school, I really like Rice because it's right next to the world's biggest medical center....in the world. [Yay redundancy!]</p>
<p>I'll be trying to get an internship or volunteer job there to start and hopefully work my way up.</p>
<p>This will give you a sense of the medical center:</p>
<p>Well, the workload is what you make it - if you take 23 hours of engineering classes, you'll probably go crazy. But there is a lot of advising here and for the most part people are totally fine. We definitely have tons of stuff going on that's totally unrelated to school.</p>
<p>And this is a great place for pre-meds! It's so easy to get involved in research, and to get to know your profs (important for recommendations).</p>
<p>I agree with jenskate, the workload is entirely what you make of it - you can take a ridiculous courseload and spend every night in the library all four years if you want, but there's no need for that.
Everyone has their really busy portions of the semester (I have 2 ten-page papers and 2 exams in the next week) when the workload seems maddening, but most people find a really great balance of work and fun.</p>
<p>I double majored in Humanities/Biochemistry at Rice (just about to graduate) and I have to say that the grading curve generally makes the science classes tougher. Most paper writing classes will give more than 10-15% A/A-, but most science courses won't. Generally people who are doing science/engineering have more work and less free time.</p>