Rice University

Rice University 

Houston, TX  

Acceptance Rate: 16.7% 

SAT/ACT 25th Percentile: SAT 2020; ACT 30 

SAT/ACT 75th Percentile: SAT 2290; ACT 34 

In 1891, William Marsh Rice, a representative who made his fortune contracted the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science, and Art. The school's shades of blue and dim, in spite of not being picked by Rice, are accepted to be founded on the way that he made his fortune exchanging with both the North (blue) and South (dim) amid the Civil War.

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