<p>If it's any help, I'm a sophomore at a public school, top 5% of my class, and have a 4.26 gpa...so whatever ideas you have, go ahead and throw them at me. I'm feeling the medical genetics career path at this point of my life.</p>
<p>the best schools for bio, specifically, are Stanford, UCBerkeley, MIT, Harvard, Caltech, JHU, WUSTL, Yale, Cornell, Duke, etc. For undergrad though, any top elite schools will be relatively comparable. The best schools for Pre-Med include JHU, WUSTL, Duke, Cornell, etc, but really, all top schools and all schools in fact can be good so long as you can excel and get good grades and prepare well for the MCAT.</p>
<p>Bummer. UCLA is easily one of the top-5 pre-med schools in the country and it got flat-out left-out!</p>
<p>The MCDB (molecular, cell, and developmental biology) major here is really good. Definitely tough, but that's what comes with the good programs, ya know?! Neuroscience and evolutionary biology are also popular majors along those lines. There's also the more basic physiological sciences and biology majors.</p>
<p>And there are some great volunteer opportunities for students to get involved in--UCLA's Ronald Reagan Med Center is ranked #3 in the country, and #1 on the West Coast. If the President gets sick or hurt anywhere west of the Mississippi, he's flown here. It's newly renovated, and really is a work of art. It's also paper-less, so it's pretty "green" to say the least!</p>
<p>So if you want a fun, social, dedicated school with great weather, give UCLA a shot! Others to consider would be Johns Hopkins, Duke, UNC-CH, Berkeley, Stanford, etc.</p>
<p>Yale isn't known as a big research school, so make sure you're looking at undergrad research opportunities when you look at schools too.</p>
<p>Best of luck, and let me know if you have any questions!</p>
<p>Ronald</a> Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA</a> Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology -- Undergraduate - Major - The Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology major
UCLA</a> geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked...( Biobehavioral Sciences; Rita M. Cantor...)</p>
<p>sorry VC08! If I could've, I wouuld've included 20+ amazing schools! haha. :(</p>
<p>What is your home state? If you are in Virginia, North Carolina, California, Wisconsin and a few others, you may be lucky enough to have a top program at your public flagship. Aside from that, many great programs have been mentioned though I would like to point out to you that human genetics is not always the same as genetics. The field is so diverse that you work in genomics and never once use yeast or you could work in systems bio and never encounter genetic knockout mice. Like so many things, there isn't a good, better, best but instead places that have particular strengths in certain areas.</p>
<p>University of Davis has a great Genetics major with the Genome Center being on campus!</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate genetics</p>
<p>genetics
UC Davis
Cornell
MIT
U Wisconsin Madison
U Illinois UC
Ohio State
Purdue
U of Rochester
U Minnesota
Rutgers
U Georgia
U Kansas
Texas A&M</p>
<p>I am from California!</p>
<p>Gourman Reports is a fraud (and an out-of-date one at that.)</p>
<p>I would definitely recommend a top UC. UCLA would be your top bet, and Berkeley ain't to bad either. You're lucky to have such good instate schools.</p>
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<p>Is that even a school.....?</p>
<p>You would be foolish not to consider the California schools then. Specifically, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD and UC Davis.</p>
<p>yeah it's UC Davis, there is no U of Davis.</p>
<p>Graduate genetics programs ranked in US News</p>
<p>Biological Sciences Specialty Rankings: Genetics/Genomics/Bioinformatics
Ranked in </p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Stanford University Stanford, CA
3 Harvard University Boston, MA
4 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA
Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
6 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
University of California--San Francisco San Francisco, CA
8 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
9 University of Washington Seattle, WA
Yale University New Haven, CT
11 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
Rockefeller University New York, NY
13 University of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA
14 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
15 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA</p>
<p>ranking from PhDs.org based primarily on "educational effectiveness" and "faculty quality"</p>
<p>for graduate programs</p>
<p>Harvard
UC San Francisco
JHU
Duke
Yale
U Chicago
Stanford
U Wisconsin
U Utah
Columbia
UNC Chapel Hill
U Michigan
U Texas
Tufts
Baylor
U Oregon
Cornell
SUNY Stony Brook
U Rochester
Tulane
Michigan State
Yeshiva
Penn State
Rutgers
George Washington</p>
<p>Hey im a junior in high school and really interested in genetics. I’m trying to go to a college in state, NJ…any idea where i can go that has like an undergraduate program?</p>
<p>Rutgers in New Brunswick
Princeton
TCNJ
Stevens
NJIT</p>
<p>University of Clemson
Genetics major, great school</p>
I’ve found that Clemson is a good safety school if you are interested in genetics, and JHU, UCB, UCD,UCLA, Cornell, etc are all good reach schools
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