<p>So, ya, senior here with a list of schools to apply to.</p>
<p>UW Seattle (Safety 1)
WSU (Safety 2)
(no order from here)
Northeastern
Santa Clara
Villanova
University of San Diego
Loyola University in Maryland</p>
<p>I'm interested in a biology/biochemistry/molecular biology, maybe a chemistry major (with a minor in computer science). I want to go into scientific research later on (Masters/ph.D in lieu of an MD). All of these schools (with the exception of WSU) are in the best cities across the US for biomedical/biological research.</p>
<p>Obviously, the DC area has tons of national-research groups for these fields, so I figure it's as good as any place to go to school. I'm looking at GWU and AU, since I'm not competitive for a school like Georgetown. </p>
<p>So ya, for internships/research with a professor, local companies, and general opportunity, how is GWU?</p>
<p>GW’s undergraduate sciences are generally weak–if you are not competitive for Georgetown, I would recommend University of Maryland-College Park and University of Maryland-Baltimore County as the more realistic options in the Baltimore/Washington area for biology/biochemistry/molecular bio./chem. DC’s research opportunites are phenomenal in these areas. I would recommend trying for Georgetown, as the school has the strongest relationships with the DC research centers (NIH, Naval Research Center, Georgetown Medical Center, Washington Hospital Center, etc.)</p>
<p>Well, I’m really not competitive for out of state merit scholarships (see my thread on college search “AU vs GWU for biological sciences” for good idea of my application). So state schools really wouldn’t be up my ally…or high level schools like Georgetown.</p>
<p>I haven’t really enjoyed the science courses here as an undergraduate, it seems more paper/research oriented, essays cr*p, etc, neither I have leaned much in those subjects, but that is just my experience. They are trying to revamp the Engineering dept, but nobody says anything about the biosciences. Not sure about AU, I think you are in the same situation, schools with heavy emphasis on politics, social sciences.
I would stick wit WSU and Northeastern. Good luck</p>
<p>^and? As the poster obviously knows, Georgetown is MUCH more selective than GW, and GW students concur that the biological sciences are poor at GW…</p>
<p>For your info., GW’s medical school’s most recent acceptance rate is 2.9%. </p>
<p>I assume GW’s medical school takes a number of students from their own undergraduate biology department, so GW’s undergrad. bio. dept. can’t be all that bad.</p>
<p>Instead of showing your face in the GW threads just to bash GW, in favor of Georgetown (that’s weird), I suggest you go to the Georgetown threads and say nice things about Georgetown, and also do damage control in light of the sad incident that happened to the Georgetown students and campus last weekend.</p>
<p>I understand the desire to react to someone constantly attacking your school and I am in no way condoning his/her behavior, but it is also a shame to blatantly misrepresent information about a sensitive subject. I don’t want this to start something here but for clarification it was one Georgetown student (his roommate was fully absolved on monday) and one student of the University of Richmond and it was not meth but DMT, a hallucinogenic used in indigenous cultural ceremonies. The entire incident was quite a shock and it would be difficult make an argument this one student truly represents our entire community.</p>
<p>It was a student-run drug manufacturing lab. DMT is just as illegal as meth. Where is the misrepresentation there?</p>
<p>BTW, apropos this thread: That kid knows a lot about science,doesn’t he?
So the chemistry curriculum is probably pretty good. I wonder who he was selling this DMT stuff to?</p>