<p>I'm planning to major in psychology and either double major or minor in international relations. Could you guys help me make a good list of colleges to apply in the fall?</p>
<p>What I have so far:
-Johns Hopkins
-Tufts
-Georgetown SFS
-NYU
-U of Mich (Ann Arbor)
-UC Berkeley
-GWU</p>
<p>Please comment on my list so far and feel free to recommend other colleges that offer good programs in my field of interests. (By the way, I'm looking for a college with a psych department that also offers neuroscience classes like Johns Hopkins does.)</p>
<p>Thanks so much and I wish all the other seniors-to-be the best of luck in their college searches!</p>
<p>You should post your stats, including scores, GPA, and residence. All the schools you have applied to are pretty competitive, so unless you have super-strong stats, you should invest some time in looking for some safeties and matches. Even then, you should do it anyways.</p>
<p>ACT: 31, retaking next Saturday.
SAT II: taking tomorrow (bio, US)
GPA: 3.86 UW 4.66 W
Residence: NJ
Ethnicity: Asian
EC: various community service clubs (president of one)
Volunteer: 900+ hours (tutor, giving flute lessons, TA, Korean school) and I’m going overseas for community service projects in the summer (so excited!)</p>
<p>You need safeties and more matches. If finances are a concern, you really need to look at your list again. Several of your schools are notorious for stingy financial aid, or for “gapping” their aid awards. </p>
<p>Georgetown SFS is much more competitive than other schools at Georgetown - you should consider applying to another of their schools if your ACT does not improve.</p>
<p>I would avoid SUNY, but do consider Rutgers, and definitely apply to Pitt as well. It’s a state school, but it’s one of the nicer state schools. It has an academic elite environment for some reason…probably from being down the street from Carnegie Mellon. Pitt is a major major research school…not so much a great undergrad place, but still they have a few good undergrad programs, particularly arts and sciences.</p>
<p>Some schools that are basically match and have strong neuroscience/psychology programs:</p>
<p>Emory
Pomona
Duke
Wake Forest
Occidental
Gettysburg</p>
<p>I also suggest you scratch some schools off your list, like NYU(very expensive), UMich(not exactly strong at Psych + OOS), Johns Hopkins(Psycho not as strong), and Cal (unless you wanted to be surrounded by 42% asians).</p>
<p>Btw, may I ask where you live? I’m a jersey asian too!</p>
<p>Thanks you guys for the help!
Any more colleges you guys suggest for psych/neuroscience?
(to clarify: for neuroscience, I want to take neuroscience-related classes majoring in PSYCH, not in neuroscience)</p>
<p>Hmm…if Michigan is too far away, Missouri is probably as well, but Washington University in St. Louis has a very good neuroscience department and an awesome interdisciplinary program called Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology that might interest you.</p>
<p>“…UMich(not exactly strong at Psych + OOS)…”</p>
<p>B man, can you explain this statement? According to every single ranking I have seen, Michigan’s psychology department is ranked between #1 and #4 in the nation. Michigan’s Political Science department is arguably even stronger! Although not a powerhouse in Neuroscience, Michigan is still considered among the top 15 or top 20 in that field. </p>
<p>“I think UMich, and def. UCB, are too far for me, anyway.”</p>
<p>mniyks, Michigan is 600 miles away from from NJ. How are Emory (which is 800 miles away from NJ), Duke (which is 450 miles away from NJ) or Wake Forest (which is 500 miles away from NJ) any closer?</p>
<p>You should definitely look into Northwestern. Not sure if there is a Neuroscience major, but we have a Cognitive Science major and I hear nothing but good things about the Psychology major. We don’t have IR, but we do have International Studies, which is an adjunct major, making it easy to double major.</p>
<p>LOL at B Man 22. You need to get out of NJ more often. Michigan has been a top 2-4 school in Psychology for decades. I don’t know where/how some people come up with these opinions.</p>
<p>lol, thanks for pointin’ that out Alexandre. yeah, U Mich has one of the best psych dep’t around.</p>
<p>I’m still deciding about U Mich… I have relatives/friends by Emory and Wake Forest, so it’s not as scary, I guess, to go there, hundreds of miles away from home, but I don’t know. Michigan seems so far for some reason.</p>
<p>yeah, I heard about Northwestern’s psych dep’t, but the distance is keeping me away… Maybe moving away isn’t ALL bad… I’m still kinda scared though, but I guess it’s part of the whole college experience. Right?</p>