<p>My daughter's long term plan is attending med school. Undergrad starts next fall. She is interested in studying Neuroscience. Unweighted GPA 4.0; rank 8 of 230; ACT 32. </p>
<p>Any suggestions for college/university that is ideally in midwest region; not downtown urban; less than 20,000 undergrads; offers merit aid. </p>
<p>Colleges we have visited include: Univ of IL Urbana; Lawrence U; Regis. Will be visiting Wash U -St Louis and Univ of Missouri-Columbia. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>would like merit aid so final cost is less than $30K per year. We have tried to discuss with her other similar majors since undergraduate neuroscience really limits the college choices.</p>
<p>Would you consider Case Western or Pitt? Both have outstanding pre-med and neuroscience programs and meet most of your criteria except for the “not downtown urban” part.</p>
<p>[Neuroscience</a> Undergraduate Program](<a href=“CAS - Undergraduate Neuroscience Program | UAB”>http://www.unp.uab.edu/) UAB in birmingham has undergrad neurosciencce.</p>
<p>offers great merit ie full tuition for 28+ act and 3.0 gpa, full ride for national scholars etc.</p>
<p>11K undergrads (but it is urban so may not meet criteria)</p>
<p>excellent pre med advising!!</p>
<p>excellent sci/tech honors program (very cohesive honors college encouraging research to begin in freshman year)</p>
<p>check the rankings of uab med school…ranks quite high in various programs</p>
<p>uab receives more research funding than all other alabama school combined</p>
<p>pm if interested, son attends there</p>
<p>“Any suggestions for college/university that is ideally in midwest region; not downtown urban; less than 20,000 undergrads; offers merit aid.”</p>
<p>Sounds a lot like Grinnell - a top midwestern LAC in a small college town with outstanding sciences, amazing facilities, excellent financial and merit aid, no distribution requirements, wonderful faculty mentoring, no intro science class over 24 students, opportunities for research.</p>
<p>It doesn’t have a neuroscience major but it offers a neuroscience concentration. S is pre-med and has had a great experience there.</p>
<p>Her stats would get her a major scholarship at Evansville, which has a very good neuroscience program (they claim 100% med school placement for their majors). About 2800 students, COA just under $40K, small city, nice campus, nice people. Certainly should be looked at as a safety.</p>