<p>Whice top liberal arts colleges are known for strength in the sciences, particularly chemistry and pre-med?</p>
<p>Most LACs are strong in sciences. Can you be more specific in what you are looking for? Location? Size? Availability of merit scholarships?</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>I'd like to know what the physics and chemistry reps are of the following colleges: (south to north along I-95!) Johns Hopkins, Penn, Princeton, Columbia, Brown</p>
<p>Wesleyan University is great for sciences (and is currently marketing itself as such... but, fairly accurately I'd say, as a student there). There is a small graduate program, so we have graduate level resources, but the professors use undergraduates to help with research, coauthor papers, and all that good stuff. There's plenty of room to get in with your own research.</p>
<p>There's also a very large premed population on campus (and a larger student body at about 2800), and lots of help with advising for pre-med students.</p>
<p>But we also are one of the most "liberal artsy" of the liberal arts colleges I know. Well, or at least one of the more liberal of the liberal arts colleges ;)</p>
<p>This is a biased opinion, I guess, so I'll stop here, but if you want more info about Wesleyan and the sciences, this is a great resource: <a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/sciences/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wesleyan.edu/sciences/</a></p>
<p>Also, I hear Bowdoin is fairly great in sciences (and undergraduate research) as well.</p>
<p>The Harvey Mudd Chemistry Department boasts sending 80% of its students on to PhD's.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd for premed is a difficult decision. While you will receive a fabulous education and get 39+ on the MCAT, you will have grade deflation and the (lower) GPA may hurt a bit when applying to med school. I think this was a problem in previous years but it seems that most of the top programs are warming up to Mudd students and their low GPAs.</p>
<p>There was a VERY comprehensive thread about this a while back. I'll repeat my post.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=124214%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=124214</a></p>
<p>Math
Harvey Mudd, Reed, Pomona, Swarthmore, Williams, Grinnell, St. Olaf, Haverford, Oberlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carleton, Amherst, Rose-Hulman, Bryn Mawr, Mills, Kalamazoo, Knox, Cooper Union, Bowdoin, Vassar, Wellesley, Birmingham Southern College, Whitman College, Union, College of Wooster, Stevens Institute of Technology, Lawrence U, Smith, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Bucknell, Hendrix</p>
<p>Biology
Swarthmore, Reed, Haverford, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton, Oberlin, Earlham, Harvey Mudd, Wellesley, Amherst, Lawrence U, Grinnell, Bowdoin, Pomona, Hendrix, Davidson, Williams, Bryn Mawr, Bates, Allegheny, Smith, Occidental, St. Olaf, Hiram, Beloit, Macalester, Knox, Hampshire, Bucknell, Colorado College, Juniata</p>
<p>Chemistry
Harvey Mudd, Wabash, Reed, Carleton, Bowdoin, Grinnell, Haverford, Franklin and Marshall, College of Wooster, Bryn Mawr, Allegheny, Knox, Occidental, Bates, Juniata, Kalamazoo, Williams, Swarthmore, Oberlin, Andrews, Holy Cross, St. Olaf, Hendrix, Hope, Davidson, Ursinus, Kenyon, Macalester, Centre, Wellesley, Wheaton, Trinity U, Lawrence U, Colgate, Ripon, Drew, Willamette, Beloit, Augustana, Hiram, Lake Forest, Gustavus Adolphus, Rose-Hulman, Albion, Amherst, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Hamline, Bethel</p>
<p>Physics
Harvey Mudd, Carleton, Reed, Swarthmore, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Haverford, Grinnell, Williams, Whitman, Amherst, Goshen, Marlboro, Rose-Hulman, Stevens Institute of Technology, Oberlin, Wabash, Gustavus Adolphus, Colorado School of Mines, Bryn Mawr College, Lawrence U, Wesleyan U, Bethel, Pomona, William and Mary, St. Olaf College, Beloit, Bates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Kalamazoo, Earlham, Hastings, Kenyon, Rhodes, Macalester, Franklin and Marshall, Bowdoin, Clarkson</p>
<p>Geology
5 College Consortium, Hamilton, Bates, Williams, Occidental, Bryn Mawr, William & Mary, Sewanee, Caltech, Franklin & Marshall, Carleton, Earlham, Beloit, Wittenberg, Albion, Juniata, Macalester, Pomona, Bowdoin, Whitman</p>
<p>One more good math school: St. John's, in the top ten (by rate, not numbers) of graduating future math PhDs.</p>
<p>Carleton's stats aren't quite as insane as Mudd's, I don't think, but they're up there</p>
<p>Holy Cross is very good in pre-med with many distinguished alumni including Nobel Prize winner. Tufts and Duke are strong pre-med but both are not LAC's. Holy Cross is going to build a new science facilty.</p>
<p>Grinnell has the highest funding per student in the sciences out of all LAC's; also the president of HHMI is an alum, so Grinnell receives a lot of HHMI grant money. Besides funding, the professors and the curriculum are great: Grinnell has one semester intro bio and chem courses that are very different from other institutions, and all the sciences classes stress problem based learning, which is the common teaching method of medical schools, over pure lectures.</p>