Blah2008, I’m sure that there are many Rice graduates who have gone on to earn their Ph.D.s from Stanford, as you have, and other great universities, and who would no doubt talk about their wonderful undergraduate experience at Rice, but I suspect that the reason they’re not on this site doing so, particularly on a Friday night, is because they obviously have better things to do with their life than spend their evenings prowling the Rice College Confidential site, trying to convince SomeotherIrishKid or AnotherChiChiRiley to attend Rice instead of JHU. I’m on this site because I’m a senior who is quite certain I will attend Rice. Maybe years from now I will visit this site when my son or daughter is getting ready to chose a school and I can share information. But I hope that after I earn my Ph.D. from wherever, I will have better things to do than to prowl JHU’s College Confidential site trying to convince college seniors why Rice is better than JHU. Hopefully by then I’ll have a very different life than the one I have now as a prep school senior. And I can assure you that I certainly won’t be spending my Friday nights on this site like you. So who’s the Geek now?
With all your endless references to US News and World Report stats and rankings (a very questionable basis on which to make a decision about which college one will be most happy and successful) one would think you were an admissions officers on this site. And maybe you are—working to make JHU’s stats better, mustering up all the JHU admits you possibly can. Good luck.