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[quote="msqueri" pid='395723' dateline='1692203262']

Weird fact: Rice for decades (and up to the present) has had a standing invitation to join the University Athletic Association, a D3 league that includes Emory, NYU, U. Chicago, and Wash U.  

The UAA is an interesting phenomena to me: Emory, NYU, UChicago, WashU, Case Western, University of Rochester, and Carnegie Mellon. JHU used to be a member, too, I think.

All are top-ranked, research-intensive universities, with relatively similar enrollments (undergraduate) to Stanford - excluding NYU (I think NYU is bigger? maybe I'm wrong) and high-output medical centers/schools

These aren't the small liberal arts colleges that usually typify D3.

[Sunnysideup]

[quote="msqueri" pid='395723' dateline='1692203262']

Weird fact: Rice for decades (and up to the present) has had a standing invitation to join the University Athletic Association, a D3 league that includes Emory, NYU, U. Chicago, and Wash U.  

The UAA is an interesting phenomena to me: Emory, NYU, UChicago, WashU, Case Western, University of Rochester, and Carnegie Mellon. JHU used to be a member, too, I think.

All are top-ranked, research-intensive universities, with relatively similar enrollments (undergraduate) to Stanford - excluding NYU (I think NYU is bigger? maybe I'm wrong) and high-output medical centers/schools

These aren't the small liberal arts colleges that usually typify D3.