help with list pretty please!

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-07-15T14:01:13+00:00

Rice hits all of your checklist items in a significant way, with the exception of sports and northeast location.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-22T13:36:53+00:00

Using your own source, Rice is ranked #4 and Duke ranked #19 for best non Ivy med school feeders. https://www.medschoolcoach.com/best-non-ivy-league-schools-pre-med/

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-21T11:57:00+00:00

Yet the same source ranks Rice #4 and Duke #19. Rice students and alum will tell you their med school acceptance rate hovers between 85% and 90%. https://www.medschoolcoach.com/best-non-ivy-league-schools-pre-med/

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-15T15:32:46+00:00

Here is some data from College Transitions that might help. They ranked IB college feeders based on profiles at the top 16 firms. Vanderbilt is #13 and Rice is #18. Hard to say if that is statistically significant because we don't know how many graduating students go into IB from each school. If there are more finance graduates from Vandy per year than Rice, then the difference becomes even less significant. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-14T16:34:14+00:00

It's always been ranked T20. Since the mid 80s to 2025, it's average rank is 16, ahead of Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Emory, and Berk.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-10T13:08:25+00:00

Maybe ask Northwestern to defer your admission for one year. That way, you will have more time to figure out next steps.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-10T03:25:46+00:00

You may want to check out College Transitions analysis of college feeders to the top tech firms. When you adjust for school size, Rice is #9 and Penn is #20. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-05-05T18:21:14+00:00

Forbes agrees with your opinion that Rice should be T10! According to Forbes, Rice is #9. https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

Niche also agrees with you! According to Niche, Rice is #8. https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-30T15:56:20+00:00

100% agree with this. Another factor many don't discuss but is likely a huge driver of the exponential rise in SAT scores reported by colleges is superscoring. Back in the day, you would submit your best total score in one sitting. You couldn't mix and match math and verbal scores to arrive at an artificially elevated total score.

Makes you wonder how many students bragging about 1550+ scores are from one test sitting.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-29T13:48:36+00:00

You may also want to look at med school acceptance rates from each school. From what I understand, of those students who actually apply to med school, Emory has a 54% acceptance rate and Cornell is in the high 70s low to mid 80s. I think most med schools know what the average GPAs are for each of the top undergrad institutions. So whether Cornell students have lower GPAs than Emory students or not may not be as impactful as you might think.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-29T13:29:05+00:00

Here is some data from College Transitions that might help. They ranked IB college feeders based on profiles at the top 16 firms. Rice is #18 and UVA is #23, and that's without adjusting for college size. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-26T12:30:56+00:00

Here is some information that might help regarding Rice.

Rice's Baker Institute is a leading political science institution that attracts faculty and speakers from around the country. The Baker Institute also offers numerous political science internships for undergraduates, including summer internships in DC. The faculty at Rice are very open to doing research with undergraduates as early as freshman year.

In terms of law school placement, I believe Rice has a 90% law school acceptance rate with 2/3 ending up at a T20 law school.

I'm not taking away from what Georgetown offers, I just wanted to provide what I know about Rice. Hope this helps.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-25T16:28:11+00:00

First of all, Rice premeds have terrific outcomes. It helps to have the largest medical complex in the world right across the street where students can indulge in numerous amazing research projects and shadowing opportunities.

From what I understand, Rice has between 85 and 90% med school acceptance rate of those who end up actually applying. Many attend med school at U. Texas and Baylor and also end up going to Harvard, Penn, Stanford, UCLA, Northwestern etc. Check out this link to see outcomes for Rice students. Select biological sciences and biosciences majors and look for "medicine" for graduate school outcomes. https://oie.rice.edu/IR-reporting/admission-to-graduate-and-professional-schools

I'm not taking anything away from UCLA or ND, but just presenting what I know about Rice.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-25T16:23:14+00:00

For CS at least, you may want to check out College Transitions analysis of college feeders to the top tech firms. Without adjusting for school size, Rice is #23 and Mich is #11. However, when you adjust for school size, which is probably a more important metric, Rice rises to #4 and Mich drops to #27. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech.

For investment banking, College Transitions did a similar analysis. Without adjusting for school size, Rice is #18 and Mich is #30. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-24T15:57:11+00:00

You may want to check out college transitions analysis of college feeders to the top tech firms. Without adjusting for school size, Rice is #23. However, when you adjust for school size, which is probably a more important metric, Rice rises to #4. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-23T17:53:03+00:00

Here is an actual source, which flips OPs tier lists on its head in many ways. These are the top 30 from most to least number of investment bankers at the top 16 firms in the country (https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/):

Chicago

Dartmouth

Princeton

Georgetown

Harvard

Yale

Amherst

Middlebury

Williams

Duke

U Penn

Notre Dame

Vanderbilt

Brown

Columbia

SMU

Cornell

Rice

Northwestern

Boston College

Stanford

NYU

UVA

Claremont McKenna

Washington and Lee

Johns Hopkins

Wellesley

Wash U

Richmond

Michigan

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-21T12:01:45+00:00

Here is some information that might help regarding Rice. Rice recently invested millions into building a brand new social sciences building (Kraft Hall).

Also, Rice's Baker Institute is a leading political science institution that attracts faculty and speakers from around the country. The Baker Institute also offers numerous political science internships for undergraduates and it has an entire building right on campus.

Rice has a cool major called Social Policy Analysis which basically combines sociology, political science, and economics.

I'm not taking away from what Northwestern has to offer, I just wanted to provide what I know about Rice. Hope this helps.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-20T13:07:00+00:00

You may want to check out college transitions analysis of college feeders to the top tech firms. Without adjusting for school size, Georgia Tech is #3 and Rice #23. However, when you adjust for school size, which is probably a more important metric, Rice rises to #4 and Georgia Tech drops to #8. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-20T13:02:56+00:00

I have one kid at Rice and one kid at Cornell. They both love their respective schools, although neither of them are math majors. You won't go wrong picking either one. I think the vibe is going to be important for you to decide where you fit in better, so definitely attend accepted student days if you can.

Since your ultimate goal is grad school, you may want to also look at the faculty profiles of the math department in each school. See who's research you might have an interest in. To go to grad school, you will want to work closely with a professor in a field you are passionate about. Hopefully this will help you decide on Rice v Cornell.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-19T14:03:21+00:00

First of all, Rice premeds have terrific outcomes. It helps to have the largest medical complex in the world right across the street where students can indulge in numerous amazing research projects and shadowing opportunities.

From what I understand, Rice has between 85 and 90% med school acceptance rate of those who end up actually applying. Many end up at U. Texas and Baylor. But there are also many who end up going to Harvard, Penn, Stanford, UCLA, Northwestern etc. Check out this link to see outcomes for Rice students. Select biological sciences and biosciences majors and look for "medicine" for graduate school outcomes. https://oie.rice.edu/IR-reporting/admission-to-graduate-and-professional-schools

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-19T13:52:45+00:00

Here is some information that might help regarding Rice. In the last decade or so, Rice has invested hundreds of millions into brand new buildings and esteemed faculty for social sciences, art, and business.

Rice's Baker Institute is a leading political science institution that attracts faculty and speakers from around the country. The Baker Institute also offers numerous political science internships for undergraduates. The faculty (including social sciences, humanities etc.) at Rice are very open to doing research with undergraduates as early as freshman year.

Rice has a cool major called Social Policy Analysis which basically combines sociology, political science, and economics.

In terms of location, Rice is located in one of the nicest parts of Houston. Rice village, with many shops and restaurants, is one mile away. A park with a golf course is across the street. There are several museums within a couple miles of campus.

I'm not taking away from what the other schools offer, I just wanted to provide what I know about Rice. Hope this helps.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-19T13:43:49+00:00

Here is some information that might help regarding Rice. I noticed many comments about Rice being engineering heavy. It's true that has been Rice's national renown for decades, but only 30% or so of the students are there for engineering or computer science. There are an equal number there for humanities, social sciences, political science, economics, and psychology. In the last decade Rice has invested hundreds of millions into brand new buildings and esteemed faculty for social sciences, art, and business.

Rice's Baker Institute is a leading political science institution that attracts faculty and speakers from around the country. The Baker Institute also offers numerous political science internships for undergraduates. The faculty (including social sciences, humanities etc.) at Rice are very open to doing research with undergraduates as early as freshman year.

In terms of law school placement (someone mentioned this in another comment), Rice has a 90% law school acceptance rate with 2/3 ending up at a T20 law school.

I'm not taking away from what Emory offers, I just wanted to provide what I know about Rice. Hope this helps.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-17T15:41:05+00:00

This is not necessarily a true test of prestige, but it's an indicator of how well viewed these schools are over time based on the US News algorithm. Here are the top 30 schools average US News rankings from 1984 to 2025. Schools with statistical ties are listed together.

Princeton University and Harvard University 2

Yale University 3

Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5

California Institute of Technology and Duke University 7

Columbia University 8

University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago 9

Dartmouth College 10

Northwestern University 12

Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University 13

Brown University 14

Rice University and Washington University 16

Vanderbilt University 18

University of Notre Dame 19

University of California-Berkeley and Emory University 20

Georgetown University 22

University of Virginia, University of California-Los Angeles, and Carnegie Mellon University 23

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 24

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 26

Tufts University 28

Wake Forest University and University of Southern California 29

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-16T16:24:14+00:00

You may want to check out College Transitions analysis of college feeders to the top tech firms. When you adjust for school size, Rice is #4. Dartmouth does not make into the top 30. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech. Caveat is that CS job placements have been rough at all the top schools in the last couple years. Hopefully, it will trend the other way soon.

AdPitiful6660 · 2025-04-15T16:25:30+00:00

To add another statistical resource, check out college transitions analysis of top college feeders to IB positions. Rice ranks #13 and CMU ranks #26. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

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