Using the College’s Board’s college search function, these colleges meet 100% of need and have either a Cognitive Science or Neuroscience/Neurobiology major. The schools without an SAT 25-75 range did not have a score range available. I don’t know if they will be test optional this coming year, but these are unlikely for nearly all applicants. There are other schools which meet 100% of need that I did not include, as if the 25th percentile wasn’t at least in the 1200s, I thought the chances of acceptance were particularly unlikely. Many of the schools may be need-aware, meaning that if they accept you that they will meet full need, but that it might affect your chance at admissions. That is why Marietta College & Mount St. Joseph are placed as likelies rather than extremely likely.
Extremely Likely (90+% chance of admission)
Likely (60-90% chance of admission)
- Marietta College (OH) 1010-1220 (also has education majors)
- Mount St. Joseph University (OH) 1000-1150 (also has education majors)
Possible (25-55% chance of admission)
- Union College (NY) 1210-1400
Unlikely (less than 25% chance of admission)
- Kenyon College (OH) 1270-1460
- Oberlin (OH) 1270-1450
- Harvard (has education majors)
- Bowdoin (has education major)
- Wesleyan
- Bates
- Wake Forest (has education majors)
- Franklin & Marshall
- Colorado College (has education majors)
- Trinity College (has education majors)
- Reed College
Other universities that meet 100% of need that you might want to investigate to see if there are programs that interest you or there’s the possibility of designing your own major (say, combining psychology and biology, for instance).
- College of the Holy Cross (MA) 1260-1430
- Soka University of America (CA) 1240-1430
- Lafayette College (PA ) 1250-1440
- St. Olaf (MN) 1190-1430
- Thomas Aquinas College (CA) 1150-1390
- Denison (OH) 1200-1410