<p>Hey, I'm looking for LACs with neuroscience / chemical engineering programme. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Amherst, Wesleyan and Bowdoin are great. If you consider Brown an LAC, there’s no place that’s better.</p>
<p>Brown is hardly a LAC.</p>
<p>you’re not going to find much in terms of chemical engineering at LACs, but there are plenty of great schools with neuroscience majors:</p>
<p>Amherst
Bard
Barnard
Bates
Bowdoin
Bucknell
Claremont Mckenna
Colby
Colgate
Colorado College
Connecticut College
Dickinson
Hamilton
Kenyon
Macalester
Middlebury
Muhlenberg
Oberlin
Pomona
Skidmore
Smith
Trinity
Union
Vassar
Washington & Lee
Wesleyan</p>
<p>Bucknell has a chemical engineering program that is ranked 4th among non-phd programs.</p>
<p>Lafayette, Union, Bucknell, and Smith have both (chemical) engineering and neuroscience. </p>
<p>I would add Lawrence U, Franklin & Marshall, and Davidson to the list of good neuroscience programs.</p>
<p>CMU
neuroscience: [url=<a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/bio/undergraduate/academics/neuroscience.shtml]Academics[/url”>http://www.cmu.edu/bio/undergraduate/academics/neuroscience.shtml]Academics[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna/Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>Thanks! Do you guys know if which of the LACs mentioned above are more likely to admit international students? Especially students from Singapore, like me, haha.</p>
<p>Amherst is need-blind for internationals, and subsequently insanely difficult in terms of admission. Do you need FA? If not, many schools (excepting the elites, obviously) would be likely to accept you if your grades are good. Sorting the list by percentage accepted is a good start, and then factor in self-selection, percentage of internationals (an up-and-rising school with few internationals might really want you), etc. Now, if you do need significant FA, it’s a whole different story and you’ll want to look at lower tier schools + merit aid.</p>
<p>dou, you might take a look at Williams. Sciences are excellent and Neuroscience is a popular concentration. No engineering.</p>
<p>Williams is also needblind for internationals (and admissions rates for Internationals are also quite selective). Lately they have recruited quite a few Singaporeans. As with many remotely located schools, Asians are still considered unrepresented minorities.</p>
<p>momrath, are Asians truly underrepresented at the elite LACs? Percentage seems to be hovering around 10%, which is respectable. I’d like to know, since I had figured on my ethnicity being a -negative- factor in admissions everywhere except for some Midwestern schools.</p>
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<p>10 percent is not at all respectable, considering some schools in the Ivy League set their Asian quota at around 14 or 15 percent.</p>
<p>And, yes, Asians are underrepresented at some of the LACs: relative to peoples of Hispanic and African American descent.</p>
<p><em>blink blink</em> OKaay… what’s an LAC?</p>
<p>kwu, Asians form a much smaller percentage of the US population than Hispanic and black people. 10% just means they are less overrepresented - a far cry from underrepresented.</p>
<p>Keil, We know the percentages of Asians that are admitted, and the percentages that attend but we don’t know the total number that apply, so I don’t have any statistical backup here. In other words this is pure conjecture, but still, it makes sense to me. </p>
<p>In my opinion LACs that are located in the mid-west or in rural environments overcompensate when they admit Asians because they know that most Asians would prefer to attend urban/suburban schools or larger, more prestigious schools. They have to admit more in order to keep their diversity percentages where they want them.</p>
<p>For example the same applicant would have a better chance at Williams than at Swarthmore or Pomona, even though Swarthmore and Pomona eventually matriculate more Asians than Williams. Same would apply to other remotely located schools like Hamilton or Bowdoin and the excellent mid-Western colleges like Kenyon, Grinnell, Carleton.</p>
<p>Keilexandra</p>
<p>Two LACs outside the mid-west with few Asians and a highly regarded academic programs are Colorado College and St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Colorado College, outside of its block structure, is a relatively standard LAC in terms of its program. It is an urban college in a mid-sized city, Colorado Springs, that is more conservative than many eastern cities, but provides ready access to the southern Rockies in all their glory, and has one of the most beautiful, and unusual, city parks, Red Rock. It also has the Air Force Academy, another LAC, but if it was of interest to you you would know all about it. St. John’s great books program is unusual and not for most people, but Santa Fe is a lovely city with a large emphasis on the arts.</p>
<p>theredsmileyface: LAC = Liberal Arts College.</p>
<p>momrath, thanks for the clarification. I like rural LACs. 
I suppose that makes me an unusual Asian; but then, I also want to major in English, so what else is new?</p>
<p>And now I’ll stop hijacking the OP’s thread.</p>
<p>Thanks, everybody! Well, I do need FA, and quite a bit of it. I want to apply to schools that have a higher chance of granting their applicants full-demonstrated needs. Is there any other school, besides the few need-blind ones, that are very generous in FA? How about merit-based scholarships? Is it possible to apply for any?</p>
<p>Small correction for nmparents: Park in Colorado Springs is called Garden of the Gods. Red Rocks is near Denver.
[Garden</a> of the Gods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Gods]Garden”>Garden of the Gods - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>There have been some very strange recommendations in this thread. For example, recommending schools for “neuroscience” where virtually nobody even majors in science.</p>
<p>I would suggest looking at liberal arts colleges where biology (inc. neuroscience, psychobiology, and cognitive science) and engineering are among the most popular majors.</p>