Rice University
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Educational Quality | A+ | Faculty Accessibility | A+ |
Useful Schoolwork | A | Excess Competition | A |
Academic Success | A | Creativity/ Innovation | A |
Individual Value | A | University Resource Use | A+ |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | A+ | Friendliness | A+ |
Campus Maintenance | A+ | Social Life | A- |
Surrounding City | A- | Extra Curriculars | A |
Safety | A | ||
Describes the student body as: Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Helpful |
Lowest Rating Social Life | A- |
Highest Rating Educational Quality | A+ |
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
I love everything about Rice University, from the extra effort put into Orientation Week to the availability of research positions for undergraduates who want that extra edge when going for graduate school. In between, there's the heavy emphasis on undergraduate education, the extremely challenging coursework made even harder by the brilliant student body, the lovely campus that I find worth looking at even after being here for more than four years, and, really, just about everything else. I turned down a lot of offers from other top schools to come here, and I do not regret my choice.The workload can be extremely difficult if you load up on science classes, and that can be a bit of a shock for those of us who cruised through high school, but in the end it's good for us. I feel quite competent in my major as well as in the research work I'm doing in one of the bioengineering labs. Having taken a couple of summer courses at other schools in order to prepare for the more challenging Rice versions, I can confirm that Rice coursework is considerably harder, and grades are much more competitive, although people are not mean about grades, and most people who got nothing but A and A+ grades in high school quickly learn that a B here (and sometimes a C) is nothing to cry about.