<p>What are some schools with good neuroscience programs and notable pre-med advising (and high med school acceptances)? I am really not interested in any ivy league schools other than Penn. Other than that, I'm open to most schools-- both prestigious and not. I prefer the schools not be LAC's unless there is BIG research opportunity there! Thank you for your help :)</p>
<p>The field is so new, there is no accepted consensus on the “best” programs, especially for undergrad. Do a search and you come up with a million different answers even for top grad programs. There are also many different approaches to the subject, so one persons top school may be someone else’s backwater.</p>
<p>@MrMom62 The University of Rochester or RIT? Thank you for answering!</p>
<p>we need a lot more info about you since there are hundreds of u/g neurosci programs in the US.</p>
<p>GPA uwtd
SAT broken down
ACT broken down
state of residency
your parents’ ability to pay (an amount per year)
your ECs
your AP courses completed</p>
<p>@jkeil911 4.0 UW, 34 ACT (35 english and reading, 34 math, 32 science), 800 Math II, 780 Bio (M), 750 USH</p>
<p>AP’s taken: AP euro, APUSH, AP Bio, AP Lang (5’s on all except Bio; Bio was a 4)
AP’s next year: AP gov, AP micro, AP physics, AP calc ab, AP Lit, AP Italian</p>
<p>I’m in California</p>
<p>$$ isn’t an issue ATM. I also don’t have an exact amount that we can afford.</p>
<p>I don’t want to list EC’s for privacy, but I think they are pretty good? A moderator I’ve been messaging said that they were good. </p>
<p>okay. with those stats you could go just about anywhere, and you’ve been kind enough to take the LACs off the table. There are a bunch of 20 or so schools that will be reaches for you as they are reaches for everyone. Your admission to any one of them will depend on those ECs and other factors. These are the ivies and MIT, UChicago, UCB, UMich, UNC-CH, Duke, Amherst, Pomona, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, Bowdoin, Northwestern. I’m sure the argument could be made that I left any one of ten schools out. All have good to excellent neurosci.</p>
<p>I’m going to leave the obvious CA schools alone because other people know them better than I, but neuroscience at UCSD, UCLA, UCI, and UCB are good to great. I just finished a very interesting memoir by a UCSD researcher who discovered he was a nonviolent psychopath. Worth reading. Each of these will have research opps but with any uni you have to ascertain that the u/gs are getting into the labs and spending time on equipment and experiments. There are LACs in CA that have terrific research opps: the Claremonts, and I have personally assessed Pomona’s research opps on campus and off campus. They’re outstanding. Not “for an LAC.” They’re outstanding, period. And Harvey Mudd is in the consortium. Again, it’s one of those 20 I mentioned: ECs, ECs, ECs, and personality. Stanford is all about the ECs and your chances of patenting a technology that will bring millions to Stanford over the course of the patent.</p>
<p>Moving east, the elites are WashU and Vanderbilt. Both have tons of money and like spending it on kids who have the grades but not all the ECs the ivies want. Very hard to get into this year. WashU is probably the better neurosci and sciences in general. Throw UMich into this group. It’s probably a match for you but may be expensive. Tulane has a good neurosci program and lots of money to throw at you. </p>
<p>Near the east coast, the elites are what you would expect. But also look at neurosci at Brandeis, Case Western, Emory, Georgetown, Rochester, Wake Forest. Lesser schools would be RochesterIT, Lehigh, UPitt, Rensselaer Poly, Syracuse.</p>
<p>I’m sure I’ve ticked off some people by forgetting their favs, but they can write in and suggest schools to you. But you really never have to leave home. A lot of good research is coming out of Cali. </p>
<p>I know what I know because someone in my family is a research scientist and I’ve spent the last 12 months getting my D into a neurosci school we could afford: UPittsburgh, which has one of the oldest and most productive neurosci programs in the nation. You really cannot go wrong on the neurosci end of things with any of these schools.</p>
<p>As for affordability, that is anyone’s biggest issue. It’s always an issue. And before you get too far down this road, like after you pick 5 schools to look into, you ought to run the net price calculators on those 5 schools. Otherwise, you’re just playing with your pet.</p>
<p>As for med schools advising and application, I have ignored that in my recs because med schools don’t care where you go, or what you major in, but that you take the prerequisites, get a high GPA, do well on the MCATs, interview well, and get some research or clinical experience. Any neurosci u/g program will serve this purpose, probably, and you can look into any particular school you want. Don’t trust med school admissions rates because half the time the schools won’t write letters of recs to med schools except for the X number of students they think will probably get into med schools. So for instance my LAC had a 100% acceptance rate because they only wrote letters for the 25 or less sure-bet students. </p>
<p>When my D applied neuroscience major in 2010, The better schools are: MIT, JHU, UCSD, UCLA, Brown, Brandies, UCB, Mich, UNC and several others, she ended up in UChicago</p>
<p>@jkeil911 hahaha I haven’t finished reading your long post yet, but are you perhaps talking about the psychopath inside? I read that at the beginning of summer!</p>
<p>@jkeil911 Wow wonderful! I will look into many of those schools. They all sounds great. Some I am not too keen on. I visited harvey mudd and discovered it wasn’t for me. JHU is ultra cut throat (from what I’ve garnered). I doubt I have even a .1% shot @ MIT. </p>
<p>Pomona, UCLA, WU, and NU, though, are really good recommendations that I’ve looked into before. Thanks for clarifying this all! :)</p>
<p>@artloversplus Thanks for letting me know :)</p>
<p>My top recommendations (I’ve tried to exclude schools you’ve said you aren’t interested in)
- Penn
- Pomona
- UCLA
- Tufts
- Georgetown
- WUSTL
- Northwestern</p>