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03-30-2008, 08:41 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rice '12
Posts: 355
| I chose Rice over...
Hey guys, so I'm 70% sure I'm going to Rice (debating between Rice and Northwestern) but I was just curious: for those of you 100% sure you're attending Rice, which schools did you turn down to go to Rice?
I'm still waiting until April 1st to get all my decisions, but I'm pretty sure I'll be back/going to Rice!  | 
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03-30-2008, 08:50 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 74
| dude! you kicked butt on the emory boards...that was awesome how you made rice look WAY better than emory! | |
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04-01-2008, 11:39 AM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 47
| XD i'm picking between the two too. I was debating b/t medill and rice. For me, though, its down the financial aid. And Chicago is brrrr cold. | |
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04-01-2008, 01:16 PM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: San Antonio -> Rice -> Martel
Posts: 817
| Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, full-ride UT Austin
It's the fin aid and century scholars that did it. | |
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04-01-2008, 04:41 PM
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#5 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 119
| wow congrats! how did you get a full ride to UT? engineering? | |
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04-01-2008, 08:02 PM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 543
| Isn't UT Austin the one that offers full ride + an extra thousand a year to all Nat'l Merit Finalists? | |
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04-01-2008, 08:49 PM
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#7 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 10
| My D picked Rice over UPenn 2 years ago. Tuition and major (Engineering) are two factors. | |
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04-01-2008, 09:12 PM
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#8 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 11
| Claremont McKenna, Colorado College, Tulane, and UGA Honors | |
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04-01-2008, 09:17 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 1,029
| My son chose Rice last year over UT engineering honors, Wash U, Carnegie Mellon (ECE and CS), Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, USC and Cornell. | |
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04-01-2008, 09:46 PM
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#10 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2
| I'm between Rice and Cornell also... do you think Northwestern's "better reputation" is significant to turn down better financial aid/warmer weather? | |
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04-03-2008, 12:10 PM
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#11 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 183
| Chose Rice over Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, NU, and all UCs w/ regents last year. :] And no regrets [97% of the time]. | |
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04-03-2008, 10:21 PM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Texas
Posts: 978
| UT Honors Engineering, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, Georgia Tech, Illinois | |
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04-03-2008, 11:48 PM
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#13 | | News Editor
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Cupertino, CA
Posts: 1,883
| Michigan, UCB, UCSD, UCLA, Davidson, Oberlin, Emory, McGill | |
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04-04-2008, 10:02 PM
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#14 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rice '12
Posts: 355
| I'm really torn between Rice, Northwestern, and WashU--actually.  They all have their good and bad points, pros and cons (no college is 100% perfect).
I'm visiting WashU next week (feasible only because WashU is paying for me to do so), but I am not so confident that I will be able to visit Northwestern or Rice later this month, due to my parents' refusal to pay for me to visit and time/school constraints, I guess. =/
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. | |
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04-05-2008, 08:21 AM
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#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 68
| ceebee, unfortunately that's not true. Texas A&M gives money out the wazoo to National Merit Finalists but UT gives like, 4k a year or something equally ridiculous | |
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