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04-05-2008, 06:46 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas
Threads: 50
Posts: 2,322
| DD chose Rice over Carleton, Macalester, Oberlin, Bowdoin($), College of Wooster($$), Grinnell($$), University of Florida (w/ NMF full-ride back in the day). DS only applied instate, chose Rice over Trinity U($$), Texas Tech (full-ride), TAMU($), UT Honors Engineering(half-tuition). | 
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04-05-2008, 09:21 PM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 24
Posts: 480
| Haha I couldn't remember...I just knew that some Texas college gave out lots of money! | |
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04-06-2008, 12:01 PM
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#18 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Texas
Threads: 57
Posts: 770
| Yeah UT gave me crap for national merit...more than Rice, obviously, but dismal compared to the merit aid A&M gives out. I had something like $8000 to engineering plus some UIL scholarships and potential terry. Plus I'm in state so it's not like UT was a big deal.
Just got into UPenn haha. Still going for Rice becasue of $$, but even if that were the deciding factor I think Rice would still seriously be in the running. | |
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04-09-2008, 01:40 PM
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#19 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 9
Posts: 279
| I turned down WashU, Univ of Pennsylvania, Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Univ of Rochester, and UConn (honors program). | |
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04-09-2008, 06:37 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Gender: Male
Threads: 20
Posts: 226
| Turned down UT engineering honors, A&M, UTPA, Kettering.
I applied ED so I never heard from USC or MIT (had to retract my apps when I got into Rice), but I had gotten deferred from there EA. I also never finished my apps to Harvard, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, and Brown (their deadlines were after the Rice notification date so I didn't feel like dishing out $70 a pop if I was going to end up retracting anyway).
I would've picked Rice anyway though, which is why I did ED. | |
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04-09-2008, 06:54 PM
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#21 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Jacksonville, Florida Gender: Male
Threads: 9
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| To turn down Rice for Northwestern would be downright foolish, in my opinion. | |
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04-10-2008, 09:32 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Gender: Male
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To turn down Rice for Northwestern would be downright foolish, in my opinion.
| Well your opinion is meaningless without any described reasoning behind it. | |
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04-13-2008, 05:10 PM
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#23 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Threads: 3
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| emory, georgia tech, oxford at emory, oglethorpe | |
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04-18-2008, 07:22 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rice '12
Threads: 9
Posts: 222
| Alright, guys, it's FINAL! I'M COMING TO RIIIIICEEEEE  woooot!
Turning down Northwestern, Emory, WashU, UT-Austin (OOS and McCombs School, Plan II Honors), UMD-College Park (half tuition scholarship, honors)
Rejecting waitlist offers from UNC-Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins, but staying on Duke's waitlist. | |
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04-29-2008, 10:24 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: In my house!
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| Any of you above posters, would you guys mind elaborating what was/were the particular dealbreaker(s) to make you decide to go to Rice?
What tipped you over to choose Rice would greatly help me, as there is a very small chance I will be able to attend Owl Days, as much as I want to.
If you could come visit Rice, you would be sold.... | |
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04-29-2008, 10:49 PM
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#26 | | Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ohio --> Rice '12! Gender: Female
Threads: 25
Posts: 364
| I am choosing Rice over Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, Olin College of Engineering, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins BME major. I am staying on the waitlist at Yale, but I am pretty freaking excited about Rice!!!! | |
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04-29-2008, 11:45 PM
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#27 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Threads: 50
Posts: 740
| I chose Rice over Wash U, USC with a Presidential scholarship and Science Honors program, RPI with the Rensselaer Medal and Merit award, and University of Maryland with President's scholarship, Honors program, and Gemstone.
I'm incredibly happy with my decision, and I'm actually extremely thankful I was waitlisted at Penn and Duke instead of the other way around, since Rice has always been one of my top choices! | |
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05-03-2008, 10:03 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: la la land Gender: Unknown
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| Cornell, Emory, WashU, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, UT.. | |
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05-04-2008, 02:21 AM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Tokyo, Japan Gender: Male
Threads: 37
Posts: 143
| wustl, duke, and purdue | |
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05-04-2008, 10:17 PM
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#30 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Threads: 14
Posts: 27
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