UPenn vs Rice for CS

juillet
Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:33:48 +0000

Both are great schools. Rice sounds like it’s $40K cheaper for you and you prefer the overall atmosphere there. Your cons there are also easily mitigated:

1. Rice has great name recognition and reputation where it matters.

2. 35 faculty is PLENTY for an undergraduate department, especially for undergrad research opportunities. I went to an LAC with around 10 full-time faculty in my department and still did research. 35 is a wealth, especially if there are 6 in the area that you think you want to do research in.

You can’t really pay off $40K with work-study; you don’t really make that much with work-study. You could theoretically pay it off with your internships, but why do that when you can enjoy your money?

I’d choose Rice if I were you.