<p>Here’s your trouble. </p>
<p>It’s very doubtful that the humanities courses you’ve taken will be counted as DI credits. You’ll need (A) to get Rice Equivalent Credit for each of the courses you’ve completed. Only the department’s (each department has its own) transfer credit advisor (an overworked junior faculty member) can convert your credit. The credit into which your courses have been converted (B) must have been designated as distribution credit. And, here’s the kicker, you (C) must have taken the courses for which you received Rice Equivalent Credit during the semester they were designated as distribution credit at Rice. </p>
<p>So, it looks like you’ll need to complete <em>24</em> hours of distribution credit, plus two LPAPs (gym classes, that is) in order to graduate. This is a little more than 3/4 of a year’s worth of work. </p>
<p>A Rice degree will not significantly improve your chances at graduate school admission. What’s important is that you get good grades, snag a high score on the GRE, and earn good faculty recommendations. </p>
<p>You will almost certainly be housed off campus. Rice does an awful, awful job socializing transfer students. You’ve got to be very outgoing or you’ll be miserable. </p>
<p>You’d be better served, I sense, staying put.</p>