My daughter got waitlisted there. Ranking is #90nor something for bio sciences. But people say it is a good one? I am confused.
The ranking you are referring to (US News) is a simple survey filled out by other schools that are talking about graduate programs. This does not always reflect undergraduate factors. You’ll also notice how specific the discipline is if you look at some of the schools in the top 20ish who are not “known” as schools you go to as an undergrad. It also depends exactly what major you’re looking at within the “Biological Sciences” umbrella name.
In this case, the survey only had an 8% response rate, hearing back from only 22 respondents.
So I wouldn’t expect a survey based 100% on a survey of 22 people to be very accurate for hundreds of schools. It’s worth noting this is the case for most of those graduate field rankings, with none coming in higher than a 35% response rate (ironically highest for the statistics major).
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/science-schools-methodology
thank you for your response. makes me feel better. She got into rutgers honors since it is in state planning to send her there
@anjani12 I see that you started a few other threads and for some reason that I don’t understand did not get much in a way of replies. I also see in these other threads that your daughter is pre-med, and that you are instate for Rutgers. You mentioned U.Conn, BU, Northeastern, and Rutgers in the various threads.
All of the schools that you mentioned in your four threads are very good for pre-med. Getting accepted to medical school does not depend on where you did your undergrad at least when you are talking about very good schools such as Rutgers and Northeastern and U.Conn and BU. However, you need a very high GPA, and high MCAT scores. Any of the schools that you are talking about will prepare a student well for the MCAT. Pre-med classes will be very challenging at any of them. Your daughter will also need a lot of experience in medical settings (such as volunteering at hospitals).
However, medical school is expensive. Saving your money for medical school is a very good plan. Being in the top 1/4 of students at your university is also a good plan. Finally, if a pre-med student arrives at a university with stats that put them in the top 1/4 or even top 1/10 of the incoming students they will still find classes very challenging, and discover other very strong and very hardworking students in their classes.
As such “She got into rutgers honors since it is in state planning to send her there” sounds like a very good plan to me.