Hi guys!
Decisions have started coming out and I’m stuck between a few schools so I was hoping some of you could offer some insight if you know about these schools. I’ll be paying full for Carleton and Bates, but Northeastern offered me $14,000 in scholarship, and I’ll be paying about $40,000 at St. Andrews. I plan on going into Neuroscience hopefully and want to take research opportunities at the school and potential opportunities/connections for employment and grad school into consideration as well. Overall, I would just like to learn about what the school culture is like, what makes up a typical student and what they would participates in, and if any of you have any experience or opinions about these schools I’d love to hear them!!
Thanks
These are some very different environments:
Carleton and Bates are small liberal arts colleges in suburban/rural areas.
Northeastern is a large (about 10x of Carleton/Bates) city school that’s both a large research school and practically focused with the co-op program.
St. Andrews is medium/large and in the UK which generally is a drastically different system than the US, though I’m not as familiar as others on those differences.
Generally, though those environments would be where I would start. If you can I would visit your top 2-3 before deciding as well.
In terms of employment, Northeastern’s co-op model can be a nice leg up with lots of medical connections in the Boston area, but all of the options are of high quality and should get you where you want to go. What you do tends to be more important than where you do it.
The Scottish system allows for some flexibility but much less than American colleges. Generally, you deliver much deeper in to your subject of study. St. A’s would have a lot of info on their academic environment on their website.
Carleton would send a much higher percentage of grads to PhD programs than NEU.
You’d have to say what you value since yes, these are all very different schools in very different environments.