<p>I rele want a place that emphasizes in teaching undergraduates and doesnt leave them to TA's. research opportunities are good. && i def dont want to be in a place thats boring for the rest of my 4 years.</p>
<p>please help.
im a city girl but wudnt mind semi-ruralness
im social...isnt hard 4 me to make friends
a bit scared of new york (is it that bad?)</p>
<p>I’m stumped how someone with such poor spelling and grammar was admitted to these schools. But to answer your question, they’re all fabulous schools that meet your criteria. It comes down to where you see yourself for the next four years. You can’t go wrong with any of these choices.</p>
<p>I’m no expert on those universities up there, but I hear Harvard isn’t very nice to its undergrads.</p>
<p>Amherst, the only LAC you have on your list, is pretty nice for a small town college, but you’d probably have to bus yourself around the Pioneer Valley a lot to find things to do, especially if you’re a city girl.</p>
<p>Anyway, visit as many as you can and see which one has the best vibe for you. They are pretty different, even though they all match your description in some way. Also, those choices are a pretty narrow range as far as prestige goes; you don’t need to look in the top 10 to find great schools. Look for more safeties. Keep browsing around, you could be missing a place that’s really good for you!</p>
<p>EDIT- sorry- i was under the impression you were still just looking for colleges. If you got accepted to all of those GREAT JOB. o___o</p>
<p>“I rele want a place that emphasizes in teaching undergraduates and doesnt leave them to TA’s.”</p>
<p>Princeton emphasizes undergrad teaching and is also one of the small ivies (population). Research opportunities should be good there, it’s a top ivy after all</p>
<p>I agree with the above. If you want a school that emphasizes undergraduate education, then Princeton is your best bet. There is only one graduate school there so all the attention is placed on the undergraduates.</p>
<p>Sorry for the spelling mistakes. I wrote this quickly while I was leaving the house.
Yea, I’ve been accepted to those schools.
Right now i’ve narrowed down my choices to upenn, princeton, and harvard…i think
All their FA packages were far better than Amherst (I loved it when I visited, but I found the rural environment a bit daunting for lack of a better word. I’m a city girl at heart. I still want a campus vibe along with a semi-urban environment)</p>
<p>I’m going to see Harvard and Princeton, but not UPenn =( However, I am immersing myself with Upenn videos so I can make a fair choice after seeing H & P.</p>
<p>I appreciate UPenn’s social scene, but is it dominated by students from Wharton? Is Philly that bad? (I’ve defintely seen a ton of stuff coming from Chicago)</p>
<p>The one thing I’m worried about when it comes to Princeton is the isolation people talk about.</p>
<p>honeyjay, what isolation at Princeton are your referring to?</p>
<p>the School has about 5,100 undergraduates and 2,500 graduate students and is an hour away from NYC and Philly.</p>
<p>Just take a visit to Princeton, stand in the arch at Blair Hall, look down the steps towards the Gothic dorms and ask yourself: Is this a place that I would enjoy for 4 years?</p>
<p>"I appreciate UPenn’s social scene, but is it dominated by students from Wharton? "</p>
<p>No, I don’t think that’s true at all.</p>
<p>“I think Princeton is way isolated.”</p>
<p>If Chicago is your measure, being in Princeton is like being in Lake Forest. It’s not rural by any means, but if you want to be surrounded by urban energy, that’s not the right school for you.</p>
<p>Harvard is in Cambridge - i visited and i really loved the vibe there. You can also take the train, there are tonssss of colleges in Boston! It’s definitely “city” enough, with tons of other college students. I say go there.</p>
<p>I liked Providence and Brown’s surrounding neighborhood much more than conventional wisdom had led me to expect. It’s got all the college-town fun things you would want (record stores and coffee shops and so on).</p>
<p>Columbia – well, how do you feel about NYC? </p>
<p>Neuroscience at Harvard is absolutely top-notch.</p>
<p>Sorry about Amherst. Have you considered using your financial aid awards at the other schools as leverage to squeeze more money out of the FA office?</p>
<p>Amherst was the first institution to offer the major in Neuroscience.
A relevant news article and a list of distinguished alumni.</p>
<p>Princeton currently offers a popular certificate program in neuroscience for undergrads in connection with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (the program currently has 70 juniors and seniors in it). It will probably become a full major when the new neuroscience building opens. Here’s a link to the Princeton Neuroscience Institute [Education</a> –*Princeton Neuroscience Institute](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/neuroscience/education/]Education”>Study | Princeton Neuroscience Institute) </p>
<p>The president of Princeton, Shirley Tilghman, who is a molecular biologist, believes that neuroscience is the wave of the future. </p>
<p>I think she means isolated in the sense that Harvard is IN Boston, Penn is IN Philly, Columbia is IN NYC, while Princeton is 1 hour away from a large city.</p>
<p>If your scared of NYC, I wouldn’t recommend Columbia. Boston and Philly are both large cities (but not NYC large) so Id consider Penn and Harvard most seriously. Really cant go wrong between the two.</p>