Century Scholars Question!

silentsailor
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:34:15 +0000

I think there are 30ish kids this year. Dunno, I haven’t been to the meetings in forever. It’s really for the money, and the research is available if you want it…my “research” first semester basically consisted of going to meetings and listening to grad students present their research, and I stopped going because it took up my lunch hour. I know a few people in similar situations, but I also know people who got really into it and do 10 or so hours of research a week.

As for prestige, yeah, I mean most are chosen from the “upper crest” of rice admits and I get the feeling admissions tried to lure is from HYPetc, but part of it was more about interest in doing research and less about scores.