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College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi i am having problems finding the right colleges for me but i think i have a pretty good list.. I am thinking about majoring in psychology or neuroscience and minoring in philosophy. I would prefer going to a school in/near a city but im not totally against anything else.. Financial aid is a HUGE factor and i would like a school that is pretty diverse and has a large student body</p>

<p>Pitt
Boston U
Northeastern
Johns Hopkins
Temple
Case Western
Duquesne</p>

<p>Does anyone have any other suggestions?</p>

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<p>Rutgers has a really good philosophy department(#6 in the nation I think). And they're pretty good with money.</p>

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<p>Would you be okay with the competitiveness at Johns Hopkins?</p>

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<p>You mean the same competitiveness you'll find in almost every top school nowdays? Do you seriously think that the Hopkins Admissions board somehow always picks the most competitive kids from across the world? </p>

<p>That rumor is based off an outdated book during which Hopkins did have some competition.</p>

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<p>jovenes: Reed and Swarthmore are top schools. Would you call them competitive?</p>

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<p>You should take a look at the special integrated major offerred at WashU: Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology. It begins with freshman seminars designed for the major and concludes with a senior capstone, or independent study project. There are two tracks to the major: Cognitive Neuroscience or Language, Cognition and Culture. </p>

<pre><code>See http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pnp/undergrad/index.html

It sounds like WU would fit some of your other preferences as well: medium-sized university (about 6,700 undergrad), near but not in the city (there is a metro link from campus directly to the St. Louis airport) with restaurants, shopping, movies and concert venues within walking distance, and merit and need-based aid are available. It's worth a look.
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<p>dchow, notice how I said "almost", not every. I know well enough that schools like Reed are out there.</p>

<p>However, I did read somewhere that Swarthmore is pretty competitive due to its academically intense atmosphere. </p>

<p>Reed's special grading system supposedly makes its' students less competitive than others.</p>

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<p>Oh, I missed that.</p>

<p>I read that Swatties like to talk about how much homework they have. Yeah, they are academically intense, but they don't compete for grades. They came to learn.</p>

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<p>Two things you will need to understand about Duquesne. The psychology department at Duquesne doesn't subscribe to the behavioral school of psychology; the psychology department is one of the two US colleges whose psychological emphasis is on phenominology (no, I dont know what that means) ... or at least it did when I went there in the 1970s.</p>

<p>Secondly, as a Catholic institution, the philosophy department will have a definite tilt towards Catholic philosophers.</p>