macalester vs. wesleyan vs. northwestern

Colleges and Universities A-Z Macalester College
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<p>I've narrowed down my options to wesleyan, northwestern, and macalester. Macalester is giving me the most money, so I figured I'd go there since they're all good schools, and I know I want to go onto grad school and want to have the least debt as possible. Northwestern and Wesleyan are hardly giving me any money.</p>

<p>Anyway, I hope to major in biochemistry as an undergraduate to pursue similar graduate work. Eventually I envision myself doing commercial research for, say, a materials/drug/pharmaceutical company.</p>

<p>I hear the biochemistry/molecular biology department at Wesleyan is pretty amazing, and that Wesleyan (among the liberal arts schools) gets the most money for research development. Northwestern is also good too, although it's a little more pre-professional and obviously larger.</p>

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<p>I'd put Chem alongside Economics at Mac as a major where, if you do well and take advantage of everything available to you, you are guaranteed bright future ahead of you.
It's not all that easy— chem has one of the lowest average GPA's (below 3), and, coming in with IB HL experience, I had some trouble even in the introductory course (it was an accelerated one, combining both semesters into one, which would be available to you next fall)</p>

<p>The chem faculty is one of the most impressive on campus. 2 MIT PhD's, 1 CalTech PhD as faculty, and even my lab instructor had a PhD from CalTech.</p>