Popularity of Rice

breeze
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:27:32 +0000

I’m further from Rice than the Ivies (in Virginia), but after much debate and research I would choose Rice over any school, anywhere. The only Ivy that conducts any significant research is Harvard, but the students tend to hate living there and there are a LOT of students (particularly graduate students). Yale, Princeton, and especially the “lesser five” conduct little significant research or development of much anything… fairly insignificant schools in the greater scheme of things.

That leaves MIT and Stanford, both of which I think are stronger than all 8 schools of the Ivy League. They both conduct more research than Rice (but probably less per student or per faculty member). They’re just a little too big for what I am looking for.