Chance/recommend me schools! Junior; terrible ECs; into cognitive neuroscience!

<p>Since you mentioned PhDs, here are the top 52 undergrad schools producing future psych PhDs; you might find some matches in the list. I think the spread is not very great, from 1% to 2.1% of all undergrads. The data say, e.g., that 2.1% of all Pomona College graduates went on the get a PhD in psychology. The data likely (I think) favor schools with proportionately larger psych departments.</p>

<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database
Number of Undergraduates: ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database
Formula: Total PhDs divided by Total Grads, multiplied by 1000 </p>

<p>Note: Does not include colleges with fewer than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>

<p>Psych PhDs per 1000 overall graduates (your listed schools in bold):</p>

<p>21 Pomona College
19 Swarthmore College
19 Barnard College
19 Vassar College
17 Bryn Mawr College
16 Wesleyan University
16 Pitzer College
16 Brandeis University
15 Wellesley College
15 Grinnell College
14 Spelman College
14 Williams College
14 Clark University
14 Haverford College
14 Brown University
14 Smith College
13 Kalamazoo College
13 Oberlin College
13 Scripps College
13 Yale University
13 Duke University
13 Carleton College
13 Drew University
12 Rhodes College
12 Hendrix College
12 Tufts University
12 Antioch University, all campuses
12 Davidson College
12 Sarah Lawrence College
12 University of Chicago
12 Hamilton College
11 University of Rochester
11 Amherst College
11 Trinity University
11 Southwestern University
11 Austin College
11 Bennington College
11 Reed College
11 Emory University
11 Union College (Schenectady, NY)
10 Denison University
10 St John's College, both campuses
10 Kenyon College
10 Mount Holyoke College
10 Bates College
10 Occidental College
10 Franklin and Marshall College
10 Stanford University
10 Cornell University, all campuses
10 Knox College
10 Allegheny College</p>

<p>should be noted that 99% of admissions people encourage people to apply...still...scary stats...</p>

<p>wesleyan is good.</p>

<p>Just curious Poseur, but is your SAT score of 2390 your highest score from one sitting? Or did you take the SAT multiple times and the 2390 includes the top score from each section of the SAT? </p>

<p>I think you will do fine getting into the colleges on your list, by the way. People get so caught up in getting good test scores and demonstrating leadership that they don't really show their personality through their achievements in high school.</p>

<p>^ she took it in one sitting</p>

<p>Don't worry you'll get in EVERYWHERE my friend</p>

<p>As will you, my stalking victim. (Relevantly, how on earth did you know that?) But yeah, Hannah, it was one sitting. I took it in November as a see-where-I-stand thing, planning to take it again later, but I got lucky. : ]</p>

<p>Yeah, I only hope that I can show my personality through my extracurriculars. I hate that they show up as a sort of laundry list of meaningless activities: I want to show colleges that I joined clubs to explore my interests and passions, from math to art to computer programming. I hope that I can demonstrate that instead of just looking like I went out and joined clubs just to be able to write them down. -___-</p>

<p>Thanks for the data, vossron -- I do want to get a PhD, although probably not in Psychology specifically (pshhh, pseudoscience!)</p>

<p>Hey, you said "I'm really interested in neuropsychology." :)</p>

<p>I know; it's close enough so that the data is still relevant. ;D</p>