<p>Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>I do definitely want to attend Rice. There are so many special points about Rice that make it really appealing–warm climate (this one’s a bit silly, but it’s freezing here in the winter!), small undergraduate population, VIGRE, residential colleges, the honors code, better math, physics, and computer science departments, etc. This thread admittedly was focused on the negative aspects of transferring, which is why it may not have communicated this very well.</p>
<p>Now, I will admit that I hope transferring to Rice will help me out in graduate school admissions, but I don’t think this just because Rice is higher ranked. Rice just has a much broader spectrum of courses, which would let me get a stronger background for graduate school. Also, everything I’ve read about Rice has indicated that the honors code makes it a bit easier to take multiple demanding courses at the same time (since a decent portion of the exams will be take-home, so the focus, at least in math, will be on deeper reasoning, not memorization), and I plan on taking a number of upper-level math courses simultaneously.</p>