<p>Although Chicago is a terrific and prestigious school, in no way is better than Rice. What I really am trying to get here is that in no way is ANY (even HYPSM) school 100K better than its peer institutions. So while UChicago is great, It is not 100K better, both are the same pretty much in prestige and education value overall. Although Econ is another story. Rice has a great physics program and pol sci at rice is great with its Baker Institute of Public Policy. [James</a> A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University](<a href=“http://www.bakerinstitute.org/]James”>http://www.bakerinstitute.org/)
Save you money for grad school/law school.</p>