<p>I disagree with Rice doing an awful job socializing transfer students. Sure, it it will be harder making friends as a spring transfer versus a fall transfer, but it is definitely doable (the residential college system helps too). Rice supposedly holds a mini transfer orientation for spring transfers beforehand, plus you can hang out with other spring transfer students initially. From what I heard, Rice tries to house spring transfer students on-campus; I have a friend who was a spring transfer student last year and he was housed on campus. My residential college master even said that our residential college needs to keep rooms open for spring transfers next semester.</p>
<p>If you want to come to Rice, by all means, come. It is going to be somewhat difficult, but transferring anywhere creates difficulties. However, in my opinion, it is not going to be as bad as Riceward put it. Try and get in contact with the person in charge with transfer credit and see how much credit can transfer.</p>