<p>How is this department or bio in general? - I didn't get eh impression at our visit that sciences where one of Vassar's strongest areas.</p>
<p>I second your question.</p>
<p>I third it! Let's do research and find out ourselves, guys.</p>
<p>I can't comment on an specifics but you might find the following links useful in researching your question. I would encourage you to contact Professors at the school to discuss your questions.</p>
<p>Popular</a> Majors</p>
<p>Vassar</a> College Science Web</p>
<p>as well as current and past course schedules at
<a href="https://secure.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/geninfo.cgi%5B/url%5D">https://secure.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/geninfo.cgi</a></p>
<p>College</a> Catalogue - Vassar College</p>
<p>course books at:
Welcome</a> to Vassar College*Bookstore</p>
<p>My personal bias is that just about any college, much less a top school like Vassar, will have more than enough "academic horsepower" to fully challenge an undergraduate. Other than pre-professional engineering or business majors which are not offered everywhere, liberal arts colleges offer the required years of building blocks to prepare students to understand higher level concepts in graduate school.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I think you'd be surprised at how many pre-med, biology, psychology, and neuroscience majors there are at Vassar. Although the school is historically known for its humanities and arts programs, Vassar has a rather large amount of pre-med students and science majors. In particular, and partially because of the pre-med students, the biology and psychology programs are both very strong. The biology is heavily grounded in allowing you to get involved in laboratory work and research: every class you'll take in the department (except Biology-105, which can be skipped with a 4 or 5 on the AP Biology Exam) has at least one four hour lab class. Meanwhile, the psychology department is one of the biggest departments on-campus and offers classes each semester in everything from social and developmental psychology to physiological psychology. Seeing as neuroscience at Vassar is mostly an interdisciplinary major between these two departments, I would say that it is certainly a strong department.</p>
<p>FWIW, many moons ago I double majored in Biopsychology (what is now neuroscience) and psychology, and had a phenomenal training experience. faculty, classes and research opportunities were unparallelled. I went on to get a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology and credit a lot to my undergraduate experiences at VC.</p>