<p>Which is better? Which is easier? Which will be more beneficial when you go out to look for a job?
BTW I’m just talking about biology in general, not pre-med or med school related stuff.</p>
<p>Both are excellent and both will work you pretty hard. Should you have the happy dilemma of getting accepted at both schools, choose based on which student body and campus fits you the best. Because you can go as far as you want with a biology degree from either school.</p>
<p>I think MIT is a little better, although Harvard is too strong, it's more fundamental, not applied.</p>
<p>Harvard is better if there's a chance you might end up majoring in something non-sci/tech/math.</p>
<p>If I was deciding there would be 2 main factors if the science/math aspect of MIT doesn't bother you. 1. applied versus theoretical/fundamental and 2. you'll be a minority in terms of major. While it is a science school, engineering is obviously the #1 major there.</p>
<p>def do MIT man..
plus, my friend @ harvard went in wanting to do premed and has now become an english major
he couldn't take the bio classes.. not like he couldn't handle them or couldn't actually take the class, he just couldn't take it</p>
<p>afaforce-From what I've heard, Harvard students are never blocked out of classes. If there's too many kids during the shopping period, they just find a bigger lecture hall.</p>
<p>nono, like.. he could actually take the class and he did
he just found it too boring or something of the like... like the professor he had wasn't good?</p>
<p>I heard the teaching at Harvard wasn't as good but I don't know if that's really true.</p>
<p>i'm probably going to be a biology concentrator at harvard. Just as in any school, there are good professors and there are bad professors in the biology department at Harvard. Nevertheless, from what I've experienced, the good bio professors are truly great and the bad ones really aren't that bad. Don't get me wrong- the biology concentration at Harvard is difficult- more difficult than at a lot of other universities, but it's also a lot of fun, especially if you get involved in the many research opportunities that the faculty offers.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info bjr1986, did you consider MIT's bio department at all?</p>
<p>like some of the previous post, MIT is a very technical and practical school. It wants you to apply the knowledge you learn to create new data.</p>
<p>Starting in 2005, MIT will offer Course 10XB (Chemical Biological Engineering). It seems very cool because it's what i want to do: drug design. MIT also has biological engineering minor.</p>
<p>what about pre-med bio? </p>
<p>any opinions on this: unless you're hard-core science, don't you think harvard would give a more well-rounded education?</p>
<p>yes to LAgal.</p>
<p>i think MIT's more practical tho</p>
<p>You guys could post in the Med forum about Med school placement. I'm thinking Harvard might be slightly better, but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>For Med is def Harvard b/c Med school cares a lot of GPA</p>