<p>My daughter was accepted (!) and is interested in neuroscience. Can anyone comment on Vassar's program or your experiences.
Thank you.</p>
<p>Well, I've opted not to (I found I was more interested in history), but I was initially considering neuroscience as a major. </p>
<p>The neuroscience major at Vassar is interdisciplinary and as such, students who are majoring in it take the vast majority of their required classes in psychology and biology (although there are a few neuroscience major-specific seminars offered). Seeing as both the psychology and biology departments here at Vassar are quite strong (I've taken one psychology class and two biology classes this year, and they've all been quite good), the neuroscience major is thus quite strong as well. If your daughter is interested in what classes are offered and some more general information on the department and classes involved check out the course catalogue, the 2008/2009 version of which came out today (<a href="http://catalogue.vassar.edu/)%5B/url%5D">http://catalogue.vassar.edu/)</a>, and the department website (<a href="http://neuroscienceandbehavior.vassar.edu/)%5B/url%5D">http://neuroscienceandbehavior.vassar.edu/)</a>.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, I don't know if your daughter was aware, but Vassar also offers a major in Cognitive Science (department website is: <a href="http://cogsci.vassar.edu/)%5B/url%5D">http://cogsci.vassar.edu/)</a>. I know this is a bit different from Neuroscience, but depending on what aspects of the field she's interested in, Cognitive Science may be intriguing. </p>
<p>And congrats to your daughter for her acceptance!</p>
<p>I was accepted ED into Vassar 2012 and I plan on majoring in Neuroscience. Where else is your daughter considering to go for Neuroscience?</p>
<p>Do they still offer the Biopsychology major?</p>
<p>I don't believe so... the Neuroscience major is, to the best of my knowledge, supposed to be the equivalent of the previously existing biopsychology major.</p>