Rice or Princeton?

unclefeezus1
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:31:16 +0000

If you want to get your doctorate (and if you major in physics, you have to to get a good job), graduate schools look at what college you go to, and generally, they are very informed. Rice has a good reputation among all of them; I’ve heard a few times that ~70% of rice graduates get into the first graduate school of their choice- and where you get your PhD is probably most important (but you should probably ask your dad about that). And if you get your doctorate, you will work with very academic people, and I’m sure (especially in physics) most of them know about Rice. My theory is the same number of doors will be open to you if you go to a very slightly lower ranked school- it just comes down to how hard you work in college. You just don’t want to go some place that’s not challenging enough- it might “cap off” your achievement.