<p>What are some of the best undergraduate biochemistry programs in the Northeast? By Northeast I mean PA, NY, CT, RI, MA, MD. The area surrounding Pennsylvania practically. I've been using the searches but nothing actually offers "best programs", just schools with the programs themselves.</p>
<p>Right now I'm looking at:
Bucknell
Lehigh
SUNY Binghamton
Vassar
John Hopkins
U of Rochester
Colgate
Muhlenberg
Brown
Syracuse
Boston U
Westchester</p>
<p>I have a 2050SAT (670 Reading, 730 Math, 650 Writing) and a 3.8 unweighted. I just need to know how these schools fall into place in terms of biochem</p>
<p>West Chester (PA State U?) is probably the lowest of your group, but they all sound like they’d belong on a list for BioChem to me. There are vast differences among the schools in type (for fit) from LACs to Research Us. Is there a type you’d like better or an end goal you are thinking of?</p>
<p>John Hopkins and U of Rochester are both VERY good for biochem! I’ve heard positive things about Colgate and Lehigh as well ;D</p>
<p>Yeah, Westchester is my real fall-back schoool incase something goes awry. And I’m not sure about the LAC vs Research school – I’m not really sure what kind of school I want to go to – I just know I want to go to Med/Pharm school thereafter</p>
<p>How are your family finances? Are they able to afford to send you somewhere or are you looking for merit and/or need based aid?</p>
<p>@Creekland: lots of aid haha, my family doesn’t make a lot of $.</p>
<p>Then you might want to add Franklin & Marshall to your list. I’m not positive they have BioChem specifically, but they are well known for the sciences and offer a bit of need-based aid. You could look into Gettysburg as well. Some do well with finances there, but I think being farther away geographically helps with them.</p>
<p>U Rochester is good with need based aid as is Syracuse (with the latter being a little easier to get into).</p>
<p>Brown and JHU are high reaches - I don’t recall how JHU is for aid.</p>
<p>Muhlenberg and Bucknell are worth a try. If Catholic, check with LaSalle (see if they have BioChem too, but students from our school have done well financially there with similar stats). </p>
<p>If you’re not in NY, you can probably axe SUNY Binghamtom. It’ll be out of state. Others will need to comment on the rest. They aren’t popular enough with students I know to have a good working knowledge of them.</p>
<p>University of the Sciences has a range of suitable programs.</p>
<p>Temple has an honors program.</p>
<p>Drexel has a coop program, with paid work experiences in your field before graduation, just in case you don’t end up in med or pharmacy school.</p>
<p>If you’re female, Chestnut Hill is supposed to do extremely well with women in chemistry. I’m sure some of them end up in med or pharmacy programs.</p>