re: Rice University

What comes out of a Chinaman's arse?

It is a very individual decision.

My daughter got in but went elsewhere after a few visits. She grew up around SEC folks and wanted the full social experience along with the academics

A girl who was a few years ahead of her in highschool told her the social life there was like the least cool kids in band threw a party. It is all dorm driven. Perfect for some folks but not for everyone.

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Congrats to him. Two very different lifestyles. If he’s thinking engineering/science/premed then be prepared to work your arse off. If he’s leaning liberal arts then it’s much more stress free with some cramming in at the end of the semester. I did engineering and the name carries weight no matter the field. Not a lot of TAs teaching the class which is nice. Small class sizes once you’re past the main-major courses.

Campus life is awesome. College system and no Greek life. Can drink on campus so you’re not worried about DWis or getting hurt. Apolitical (mostly) environment. Rice village right there. Lots of Asians. No one cares about collegiate sports. Do it!

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This is pretty spot on except Campus life is awesome haha. I got my masters there so didn't have an undergrad experience, but I would say it's a fit school. If the degree program your kid wants is solid there and he/she is personality fit with the campus lifestyle there, then for sure send them. My personality wouldn't fit with undergrad life there. Your kid is guaranteed to get a solid education, close friends because of the way they structure their undergrad system by houses (randomly seperating kids into residential colleges), make sure your kid understands how that works, it's sort of like harry potter, and they will have a solid network for the rest of their career.

Couple of things I would consider as a parent, the area is super safe, one of the nicest in Houston. The campus is very nice, dorms are nice, administration is on top of everything and address issue very promptly whether it be a protest or a campus incident. As a professional, people knowing you went to Rice is sort of a badge of honor in the Houston area.

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Or poor because if they are accepted, and their family earns less than $75,000, their tuition is covered.

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True, schools like Duke and Emory give you a full ride, room and board, if your income is less than 100k. And that was just 10 years ago, so the limit is probably a lot higher now with inflation.

Congrats! Top of top.

Best part of Houston. Rice village. And I don’t care much for most of Houston.

Would I go 400K in debt to send my kid to Rice? No. I would for Stanford/Harvard/MIT/Yale/Princeton. If you have planned for this and/or you can cash flow the payments, it will be the best money you have ever spent.

It is upsetting to many people, but your kid will have opportunities that won't be available to others.

My youngest son graduated from a US News top 5 university last May. In a funky job market with most recent grads struggling to find anything related to their major, he is making a strong 6-figure base salary in a job he loves. There is no doubt where he got his degree played a huge part in this. I never felt better than when I made those tuition payments.

Rice is in a great safe area of Houston, it’s surrounded by nice neighborhoods and Herman Park. Once on campus you can walk to Rice Village shopping area for all types of restaurants,
Bars, small shops. You can walk to the Metro Rail which can take you all the way down to the NRG area and north to downtown. I wouldn’t take the Metro Rail past downtown but it goes further northbound and there’s a second metro rail that will take you to U of H campus. It’s also close to the Museum District.

My granddaughter checked out Rice and University of Houston. She's just a junior in high school this year but for some reason, she favors University of Houston. This could change.

After checking out the schools, Rice graduates have much higher personal earnings rate than U of H but that probably isn't a factor that she's weighed out yet.

I like Rice but the cost may be an issue. Out of state tuition is lower at U of H.

Compare U of H VS Rice

My aunt Toni got a full ride to Rice. Later became an editor for Forbes and published an article about Enron's questionable accounting practices about 7 years before shite hit the fan, which of course led to the biggest white-collar crime investigation in the FBI's history. That's all I got.

Rice
--fantastic academic reputation
--opens many doors in Houston post grad, though same doors if not more can be opened by good grades and connections from UT, A&M, SMU, etc
--kind of a weird student body excluding athletes (nerdy, very Asian, etc)
--nice campus near the medical center / Herman park / museum district
--expensive
--as close to an Ivy as it gets south of the Mason Dixon (still not that close given geography, history, etc, but relatively the closest)