Profile of the Challenge - Schools like Rice Rice University, located in Houston, Texas, is a small, private university, with approximately 2700 undergraduate enrollment and 1400 graduate students. More than half of the graduate students are enrolled in SMET disciplines. Merit-based scholarships at Rice are awarded to exceptional students whose effort and contributions have made a positive and lasting impact on their communities. Cite a personal experience to illustrate this.
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Despite minority recruiting efforts, Rice undergraduate minority admissions dropped in '97-'98, the first year after this court decision.