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Date: April 2nd, 2008 2:41 PM Author: Pearl multi-colored native I have to choose between these three schools. Which one should I choose? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9568076) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 10:37 PM Author: drab slimy idea he suggested church Is Rice even a good school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9575390) |
Date: April 2nd, 2008 2:51 PM Author: Ruddy Heady Pozpig Home WashU > Rice > Vanderbilt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9568112) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2008 3:05 PM Author: nubile beady-eyed trailer park roast beef Academically this is correct, but the differences are not that stark. So if you like the social life I could see picking Vanderbilt over the incremental academic advantage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9568204) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 1:46 PM Author: Salmon aggressive turdskin No. Rice is categorically underrated on this board. Rice is the best of the three academically. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9572858) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 12:53 PM Author: abusive forum Rice>Vanderbilt>Washu (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9572589) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 2:50 PM Author: Puce french lay lettuce I go to Rice and I wouldn't want to go anywhere else. I love it here! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9573245) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 8:27 PM Author: Sapphire meetinghouse rigor Probably not as much as you'd like to be in skull & bones. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9574874) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 8:26 PM Author: Pearl multi-colored native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9574871) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 9:39 PM Author: self-absorbed coral boltzmann chapel Subject: Rice Rice > Vanderbilt > Wash U. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9575123) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2008 10:34 PM Author: Topaz racy degenerate Either WashU or Vanderbilt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9575370) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 9:50 AM Author: Costumed lavender weed whacker This thread is a farce. WUSTL is clearly the superior institution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9576850) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 9:56 AM Author: Sapphire meetinghouse rigor Sorry but your just a US News victim. None of WUSTLS departments are that amazing. Rice is clearly the victor, it has the most financial promise in the future, and growth.
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Date: April 4th, 2008 11:52 AM Author: Costumed lavender weed whacker lol, most financial promise? Are you retarded? It's a TTT in rapid decline. WUSTL is the future. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9577208) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 12:03 PM Author: Sapphire meetinghouse rigor You idiot, Rice is on a fuckin Oil reserve. And it has a music school which means its probably got some class. WUSTL is known for being pompous, no real reputation, and inconsistently ranked. Its business school is crap. Its only up there because of its Med School. None of its undergraduate departments are spectacular, its the graduate schools. I'd commonly confuse Wash U with Georgetown and GWU.
I'm just warning you, WUSTL's reputation is recent and may not be forever. Its a hard choice, but I know Vanderbilt will always have the name of the steel magnate, which is a stronger consistent reputation. |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 1:02 PM Author: Claret school cafeteria hominid "Rice has a music school which means its probably got some class."
Do you realize how gay this sounds? |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 1:13 PM Author: Sapphire meetinghouse rigor I'm sorry, but any school that produces Carnegie Hall performers is A-Ok in my book. Much more competitive undergraduate environment with a music school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9577513) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 1:28 PM Author: Costumed lavender weed whacker WUSTL is fundraising and spending money at an insane rate, certainly moreso than Rice, Vandy, or any other 10-20 school. The capital improvements that have occurred over the past 5 years are ridiculous, but of course you wouldn't know that because your knowledge of the school is limited to internet message boards.
If you think the rankings are just a flash in the pan, it only shows how painfully misinformed you are. Unless the administration is turned over to retards, WUSTL will remain in the T15 and will probably establish itself in the T10 within the next decade. |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 1:45 PM Author: Sapphire meetinghouse rigor Whatever, go to WUSTL. One good thing I can say about it is its got some stunning interiors, that will make you feel like your in a Parliament (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9577621) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 1:00 PM Author: Claret school cafeteria hominid "None of WUSTLS departments are that amazing."
Medicine, architecture, biological sciences, and social work all ranked in top 5
Political Science and undergrad business in top 15
The better question is what departments at Rice or Vanderbilt are amazing? |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 10:06 AM Author: Pearly Nudist Volcanic Crater Rice has the best academics and the lowest tuition. Good college house system means high quality of life.
Vanderbilt is the most social of the three schools. Strong greek scene, plenty of hot girls, the campus ethos is white, upper middle class, and southern/mid-Atlantic.
Washington U has a pretty campus, but is in St. Louis. Academics fine, but otherwise unremarkable school.
If money is even an issue, go to Rice. If not, and you like to party hard with the Dean brothers, go to Vanderbilt. |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 12:05 PM Author: tan property nibblets Subject: Rice>Vandy>>>>>>WashU Rice has the best reputation of the three academically. Vandy will have the hot girls and Wash U will, well....I really don't know, I guess St. Louis?
Seriously, though, Rice is the best of the three. Stanford of the South. |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 9:55 PM Author: Medicated Thriller Cruise Ship Jap 'Rice is great. Its physics, astrophyics, computer science, chemistry, music, biomedical engineering faculties are outstanding. What pushes it over the top is its location. Houston is a world-class city with a great ballet troupe, symphony, opera, theatre, nite life and restaurants. Lots of excitement there. It's not as expensive as living in the north, and it's close to the ocean. These attributes - in addition to the diversity to be had there - renders it far and away the choice amongst it, Vandy and WashU.
I will certainly be gunning for a faculty position there when I finish grad school. I wouldn't be very happy in St. Louis - it's an awful awful city. Nashville - well, I could live with. But never Missouri. |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 12:09 PM Author: Sapphire meetinghouse rigor <<So where do you go to school? <Washington University! <<Is that in Washington or DC? <Missouri, St. Louis actually <<Oh! (As he ponders whats in missouri, and only lands on the word misery) That's nice <Yeah! (As he wonders whos memorized the US news ranking) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 12:39 PM Author: Claret school cafeteria hominid <<So where do you go to school?
<Northwestern!
<<Is that in Boston or in Seattle?
<Evenston, Illinois actually
<<Oh! (Realizes his favorite soap actor went there) That's a great school..for,um, actors
<Yeah! (As he wonders why didn't get off the waitlist at University of Chicago) |
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Date: April 4th, 2008 8:35 PM Author: Pearl multi-colored native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9579883) |
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Date: April 5th, 2008 10:47 AM Author: Pearl multi-colored native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9581378) |
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Date: April 24th, 2008 9:07 PM Author: Pearl multi-colored native I am planning to major in the humanities/economics/political science. Which school would be better for this? I have narrowed it down to either Rice or Washu. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9679995) |
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Date: April 24th, 2008 11:53 PM Author: Shivering school half-breed WashU is much better than Rice in Poli Sci and slightly better in economics.
Rice has a much better Engineering program. |
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Date: April 25th, 2008 2:32 AM Author: umber diverse doctorate space This dude is correct.
Wash U is strong in poly sci and the sciences. Econ ain't bad. Beyond that? Mediocre.
As for the OP, if you are upper (middle) class, white, and like to hang out with people of your kind, Vandy is for you. If you are anti-Greek and like to still party a bit, Rice is the place to go. Wash U is probably the least social out of the 3. Not to say it is anti-social, just not as happening as Vandy, nor Rice I'm guessing.
(I'm a WU alum who has lived in TN, and have friends that went to Rice).
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Date: April 25th, 2008 2:10 PM Author: tan property nibblets Subject: WashU Rice, then Vandy. I have never been impressed by Vandy students but I have been by Rice students. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9683267) |
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Date: April 25th, 2008 2:46 PM Author: Canary Mad-dog Skullcap i would probably go to rice. maybe vandy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=793405&forum_id=1#9683450) |