Rice vs. UT Austin

silentsailor
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:27:42 +0000

From the perspective of a native Texas, UT is a good school if you want to make it a good school. I know way too many kids who slide in throughthe top 10% rule to have any respect for the majority of the student body. The strong students at UT are mainly those a) from out of state, b) in honors programs, c) who used it as a safety and d) who got into better schools but chose UT for money.

I love Austin, I like UT, I’ve attended classes there and visited more times than I can count, I almost went there through dean’s scholars/terry foundation, and while you may be being taught the same stuff your peers will just NOT compare to those at Rice. Sorry if that’s blunt but I put a LOT of deliberation into this last spring and I think I made the right choice.