<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Duke
Johns Hopkins
McGill
MIT
University of Washington Honors</p>
<p>Waitlisted:</p>
<p>Harvard
Columbia</p>
<p>I am planning on studying biochemistry or neuroscience (possibly biomedical engineering). I have not received money from anywhere except for $3000 entrance scholarship from McGill. McGill and UW Honors are about $20,000/year as opposed to $50,000/year at the other schools. I am leaning towards MIT but I am uncertain as to whether I would fit into the social atmoshphere. Any advice would be appreciated!</p>
<p>UDub Honors if you’re concerned about finances.
MIT if you’re not.</p>
<p>Agree with UCB. As far as the MIT social life goes, have you read the blogs?</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: Meet The Bloggers](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/blogs.shtml]MIT”>Blogs | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>Have you heard about financial aid from all of the schools? If not, then just relax, you really can’t make a decision yet.</p>
<p>Are you going to visit MIT during Campus Preview Weekend? I think that’s the best way to see if you really like MIT. MIT’s a pretty diverse place, and there are niches for lots of different people.</p>
<p>I was a biology and neuroscience major at MIT, and am now a graduate student in neuroscience. I’m happy to answer any questions you have about the biology or neuroscience departments at MIT, and there are some current biological engineering majors who post on the MIT forum here on CC.</p>
<p>I don’t expect to receive any financial aid. I could pay for an expensive school but I only want to do that if it will be worth it. I am going to CPW to see what the people are like. MIT won’t take its own students for graduate school though, right? And isn’t graduate school more important than college as far as where you go?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about Grad school right now, worry about undergrad. I agree with UCB.</p>
<p>
MIT is actually fairly incestuous, as far as schools go. Such students are called “MIT-cubed” (BS/MS/PhD). Universities are much more likely to accept their own science students for graduate studies than humanities students.</p>
<p>i would say narrow down to</p>
<p>MIT vs. JHU vs UWashington Honors</p>
<p>
I got into MIT for my PhD – I think all of the MIT undergrads who applied my year got in, although most of us chose to go elsewhere. </p>
<p>I think it’s generally true that grad school is more important than undergrad, but you have to actually get into grad school first. It’s easier to get into a great grad program if you go somewhere with great undergrad resources (particularly research in the sciences).</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the help! There is one more thing I am considering: quality of life. I know that at MIT I will have to work much harder than at UWHonors or McGill. I will probably spend more time studying as well. I am willing to work hard to succeed but I also want to have fun. What is your input? Thanks again!</p>
<p>Given your fields you are going to work hard anywhere you go. If you are thinking about Med School you better do so. I based my decision on the finances involved.</p>