A sentence from the front of the Rice application packet:

[eyepiece_simile]

"We hope and expect you will enjoy the application process."

Admission committees can be wrong. Go figure.

Comments

[theladyrose]

The use of the word "enjoy" is the sketchiest I've seen yet employed by an admissions committee.

[latina_business]

Why oh WHY do you want to go to Texas?

[eyepiece_simile]

...at least it's warm. And, Rice itself is quite liberal.

[dragonfly66]

so it's...warm and liberal. do they serve butter cookies at reunions? teddy bears? sophiaaaaaa. you must go to the north and wear parkas and drive sled dogs to class! it's the only trendy thing to do.

[eyepiece_simile]

Oh, I applied to several schools in the northeast, but there is something appealing about not getting hypothermia, which, if you haven't noticed, I tend to do fairly easily.