Unconventional students at Rice: Empowered to succeed and thrive

When Taiwanese-Canadian Sophie Hu decided to call the United States home during her college years, she looked south. After chatting with a friend at another school in Texas, she looked at Rice University.

“It offered so many unique experiences that — as an international student — if you went anywhere else, you wouldn’t have those same experiences that you would have at Rice,” she said. “For example, close relationships with professors and your peers.“

The psychology and economics double major with a minor in business credits those relationships with students, faculty and staff as a source of her success at Rice.