![]() ![]() ![]() Rice attended the University of Denver, where she majored in political science, was all of 20 when she got her master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, went on to get her doctorate from and then taught at Stanford University. She apparently never rebelled, stayed out too late or suffered teenage angst (one boyfriend had “a heart of gold,” another was, well, “another nice guy”). In high school, she practiced skating two hours before class every morning, then again after piano practice. Her goal always was to be “twice as good” as other kids, and her childhood became a whirl of piano concerts, school competitions and figure skating lessons. She took ballet, gymnastics and baton twirling, plus private French lessons, She scored 136 on an IQ test at age 6, she reveals, “good but not Mensa level.” It was a rare setback (and one reason, she notes, that she doesn’t trust standardized tests). She was “enchanted” by Mozart when her friends adored Elvis. Gifted and ambitious, she started piano lessons at age 3 and soon was practicing for hours a day. Rice describes her upbringing as “quite normal,” but it clearly wasn’t. ![]()
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