<p>The “most students” bit is just nonsense.</p>
<p>Still, the faculty and resources in most of the humanities at Rice are simply not as strong as in most of the sciences. Rice is lacking in really top-notch humanistic scholarship.
This does not mean that undergraduates in the humanities don’t get great educations; I’ve consistently heard great things, in fact. But if you want to be around earthshaking humanistic endeavor, Rice probably isn’t the place for you.</p>