Premed Competition at rice/overall campus feeling

ScienceGirlMom
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:33:13 +0000

@waahhh The residential college system is often compared to Harry Potter. You are more or less randomly assigned to one of 11 colleges (dorms), and that becomes your social group and your home. Some people don’t like the fact that everyone pays the same price for housing, because some of the colleges are nicer than others. But it always works out! It is extremely rare for anyone to switch out of their college. You can request a particular college if your parent is an alumnus of that college, but other than that, you can’t choose. You can pick a roommate, but you can’t pick the college.

There are no sororities or fraternities at Rice…your college is your primary social group.