Premed Competition at rice/overall campus feeling

crazymomster
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:59:14 +0000

While I am neither a student nor alumni, I do have a student at Rice. I am not sure where you have heard these rumors. It’s probably via high school students with assumptions.

I hope you’ve had a chance to look around on the forum to answer some of your questions since posting your questions, but I will try to address your concerns.

Rice does not have a pre-med major. They do not have biomed eng either. They do have bioengineering however. They are a very friendly collaborative group and absolutely no cutthroat. If there is any of that, its a stray individual and not the norm of the way things work at Rice.

There is ALOT going on around campus. I’m not sure what activities you are looking for, but there is probably anything you would want (and if there isn’t… you can start it yourself). Rice students do study hard, but they also play hard. The definition of a tail gate party at Rice is VERY different than the definition of a tail gate party at UT, but Rice does have them and makes them fun.

Yes, academics are important to Rice students, which is one of the reasons why people attend Rice… to get an outstanding education, which does mean spending time studying. But by no means is an all consumptive activity. You will get out of your education though what you put into it.

I hope this helps :-)