<p>Hi I'm a junior in high school now, and I'm currently researching on schools that have a very decent biochem or bio curriculum/research for majors. Basically I'm looking for a univ/college that has a strong biology department that's in a fairly/very urban city. I tried all the college search engines, but those things just don't really help.</p>
<p>Stats as of now (just a clue of which are probable matches):
GPA (unweighted): around 3.9
SAT: 2050 (CR650 M730 W670)...plan on raising...</p>
<p>Wisconsin-Madison has one of the biggest and best biosciences programs in the US.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/biotech/%5B/url%5D">http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/biotech/</a></p>
<p>What are some other univ/colleges with a strong bio/biochem program? Anyone?</p>
<p>its a pretty basic major- most schools will have a strong dept- better to decide on the other features you want your school to have- then pick from those schools the ones that have the strongest dept
fr instance- my daughter who is at a small LAC with a quirky intellectual student body is a bio major and her roommate is majoring in bio chem-
the school has very strong programs in the sciences, but we first looked at it for its other qualities.</p>
<p>Any school known for its sciences will have a good program. Madison was mentioned, U of Chicago, Michigan, the ivies, Duke will also have strong programs. As said before, just look for general qualities you want in a college.</p>
<p>also look at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, NYU, and UCSD</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>For undergrad, look at Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Most Ivy League Schools, JHU...if your looking at smaller schools Swarthmore may fit the bill...waving the city requirement, you can add Duke and Stanford to the list.</p>
<p>Durham is pretty tight, actually, Duke is nice...
Are you looking into being a doctor, or research?</p>
<p>Research would be Johns Hopkins..If you want to be a MD, go to a state school.</p>
<p>If you don't have Ivy League-Caliber Stats, don't apply to JHU as a BioChem major, apply as a defecation studies majore...actually, that sounds medicine related...apply as an East Asian Studies Major....</p>
<p>I actually had UCSD and JHU in mind because they look like ranges of where
I can possibly get into, and they're also in urban cities ^_^. But it would be wise to apply as another major for JHU and switching out of it huh?</p>
<p>I think so.
But, make sure it is something you are actually considering.
You wouldn't want to flat out lie...The East Asian thing was a joke, perhaps, you would want to enroll as a "Natural Sciences Undecided" major. But, since JHU is the biggest, baddest brand name...you would be wise to apply as another one, unless, of course, you are the biggest and baddest.
Which, since you are a junior, you still have time to be...
Get a research spot at a University. That's really important, enter Siemens-Westinghouse, and Intel...Show interest on your own time.</p>
<p>Haha yea I know you were just joking...I was using it as an example. Thanks though.
P.S. Asian studies isn't a bad idea...since I'm quite infatuated with the asian language and culture.</p>
<p>Cornell has really good biology and chemistry. But it's not urban by any means.</p>
<p>I second John Hopkins if you're looking for an urban school. . .also look into Boston College. . .and I know Boston University has a good Biomedical Engoineering program, but I don't know about their biology.</p>
<p>Perhaps UCB and UCLA.</p>
<p>But I heard UCSD was more selective and rigorous in biological sciences...</p>
<p>Biology rankings from Gourman Report
Caltech
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Wisconsin
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
U Colorado
Columbia
Stanford
U Washington
U Chicago
Duke
Wash U St Louis
UCLA
U Michigan
Cornell
U Penn
Purdue
Indiana U
UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Biochem from Gourman
Harvard
MIT
UC Berkeley
Wisconsin
Yale
UCLA
Cornell
UC San Diego
U Chicago
U Illinois
Columbia
U Michigan
U Penn</p>
<p>LACs for bio from Rugg's
Amherst
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
Carleton
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Colorado C
Dickinson
Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg
Hamilton
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Holy Cross
Kalamazoo
kenyon
Lafayette
Lawrence
Macalester
Middleburyt
Mt Holyoke
Occidental
Pitzer
Reed
Rhodes
Smith
St Olaf
St Mary's (MD)
Swarthmore
Trinity (CT)
Vassar
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Wheaton (IL)
Whitman
Williams</p>
<p>also U of Rochester, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>That's weird that not only is JHU excluded from that list, but UR as well...</p>
<p>grinnell left out of LACs, seems very odd</p>
<p>Actually Johns Hopkins, U of Rochester, and Grinnell are mentioned.</p>
<p>I did not transcribe the complete list from Rugg's. I selected schools that were familiar to me but missed Grinnell. There must be 50 LACs in the Rugg's list. Johns Hopkins and U of R are in the Gourman list but farther down.</p>
<p>Others biology from Gourman:
U Utah
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Princeton
UC Irvine
U Notre Dame
UC Santa Barbara
U Virginia
Brown
U Illinois UC
U Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt
U Oregon
SUNY Stony Brook
U Rochester
Tufts
U Minnesota
SUNY Buffalo
U Texas Austin</p>