Uchicago vs. Rice

[cdz512]

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But I’m starting to feel that Chicago’s core + its strength in a wider variety of disciplines than Rice would be better for making me a well-rounded person who’s competent in a wide variety of subjects. I don’t doubt that I would be exposed to a wide variety of subjects at Rice, but it seems like omnivores are more common at UChicago than Rice, in intellectual sense.

I think you need to look much more at rice. Right now, it seems, and i might be wrong, like you have confirmation bias (you are pointing out what UChicago without looking much into Rice). Rice University has a distribution credit in which you are REQUIRED to take courses from three different distributions: [Distribution</a> Credit | Office of the Registrar | Rice University](<a href=“http://registrar.rice.edu/students/distribution_credit/]Distribution”>Distribution Credit)
That is just like the core at UChicago.

I’ve visited Chicago in late December, but only for a day. But I do think I’d prefer cold over humid, since the cycle of go outside to humidity/sweat/go inside to air-conditioned cool/dry sweat/go outside… sounds awful. And I can always put on more layers in cold, although I’m betting that’s a naive thing to say.

From a student who has also visited Chicago in the dead of winter, let me say that late December is nothing in coldness compared to mid winter. Late December isn’t that cold at all. Plus, this year was actually milder than the last few years for the midwest.

On the other hand, Rice is about $20k cheaper a year; although my parents are willing and able to pay for either school…that number’s difficult to ignore. And as far as I can tell, Rice is almost as good/as good as Chicago for most of the sciences.

Let me say this. 80K for Chicago over Rice is 80K less for grad/professional school. Does that make a difference? Unless you don’t want to go to grad/med/law/professional schools, then it probably isn’t as significant as if you do.</p>