(07-19-2018 08:56 PM)WeatherfordOwl Wrote:  A leadership experience is exactly what most Rice students need. They are always the smartest in their high school classes but that doesn’t translate into the vision and people skills that are necessary for leadership. Having great ideas isn’t enough. You have to be able to sell them.

When I was at Rice, I was impressed by the number of students who were leaders in high school - team captains, student body presidents all sorts of social activity. Not just a bunch of morose bookworms.

I was told that the interview/selection process favored well rounded students.

I hope nothing has changed.

But I think the leadership program is meant to help students expand on leadership qualities and skills they already have, not create leadership in those with no vestige of it.