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Not particularly, no. My boyfriend majored in biology at a very good (but not “elite”) LAC – he got a fantastic education, had plenty of great research experience under his belt by graduation, and had his pick of several excellent grad programs. He never regretted his decision in the slightest. He is far from unusual; science students at LACs do extremely well every year in winning NSF and Goldwater scholarships and getting into good PhD programs. You would be perfectly fine at most of the top liberal arts colleges, especially in a program like biology, which tends to be both popular and strong at most decent colleges these days. </p>
<p>As for Stanford, it is certainly a good place to combine the sciences and humanities, but it is not unusual or notable in that respect. Brown’s open curriculum is the most amenable to such a combination, but places like Penn, Yale, WUStL, and many others encourage interdisciplinary studies. I doubled majored in the sciences and humanities at Duke and found it both enjoyable and rewarding.</p>
<p>BeanTownGirl is correct. Your list is composed almost entirely of highly selective colleges at this point. You should spend at least as much time (and arguably more) picking out safeties. Each April students come on CC to complain about their rejections from top-notch colleges and how they don’t want to attend their safeties…don’t be one of those students.</p>
<p>Here’s a possible way of organizing a list:
[ul][li]Reach universities (1-2): MIT. Possibly JHU (very strong molecular bio and humanities, good dance through Goucher) or a university with similar strengths (e.g. Cornell, Duke, Emory, WUStL). Dartmouth is about as LAC-like as a top university gets, though it does have PhD students in the sciences.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Reach LACs (2): Pomona + another (Haverford? Carleton? Wesleyan? Middlebury?)</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Matches (3): Kenyon on your list could work, but Oberlin is larger and fits your interests like a glove. Some of the great but not insanely selective universities (e.g. Rochester, Brandeis, Wake Forest, and U Miami) and liberal arts colleges (e.g. Franklin & Marshall, Bucknell, and Conn College) would fall into this category. Assuming you’re female, also check out Smith.</p>[/li]
<p>[*]Safeties (2): A SUNY/CUNY + any other school you can get into, can afford, and are totally okay with attending (possibly a [guaranteed</a> merit aid college](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html]guaranteed”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html))[/ul]</p>