Rice, WashU, Northwestern, UChicago?

Question

Rice, WashU in StL, Northwestern, UChicago

Right now I'm looking at those schools as my "reach" schools. Has anyone who has gone to any one of them tell me the pros and cons of what it is like. Also, what was your high school background like?

If you want, tell me some similar colleges to these.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The only school that I am familiar with is Rice University. I never applied to Rice but my classmates did and horrible experiences with the admission process. However, I know a couple of architects who graduate from Rice and enjoyed their experience at the school and are very successful in their fields.

Answer 2

I can only answer your last question. Those are all great universities. The only other schools that are similar in quality are the Ivy League schools, Duke and Stanford. Vanderbilt, Emory and a few others are close. A couple other schools, like MIT and Cal Tech are as good or better -- but are specialty schools.

You can look at Princeton Review's web site to see statistics of accepted students.