Please help with any undergrad insight for these schools as a biology major on the pre-med track. My daughter needs to decide by May 1st and she has made a Pro/Con list that has all these schools equal (we visited all 3 campuses and even though we are from Seattle, I have family in the NE that we visit every Christmas).
SCU and LMU - small, lots of hands on research starting freshman year since little to no grad students to share lab time with.
Northeastern - wondering how easy it is to get research time as freshman or sophomore since there are grad students.
NU - accepted to the Honors program although there is no priority registration time. LMU and SCU have priority registration. Waitlisted to LMU Honors and haven’t applied to SCU Honors but after talking to pre-health advisor, there are no major perks to SCU’s and LMU’s honors program with respect to research availability and we heard it may hurt GPA so will probably not do it if offered.
NU has the easiest access to hospitals (could walk), SCU has a relationship with one nearby hospital and LMU has hospitals within a quick car ride.
Northeastern and SCU would cost the same - about $18k more per year than LMU but we can cover the difference without loans so not factoring this in too much. However, since my daughter isn’t having any revelations about any particular school, this is now beginning to be something we are thinking about. Also, my older daughter is a sophomore at LMU which has its pluses and minuses.
Any insight on the undergrad biology Honors program at Northeastern, or undergrad biology program at SCU and LMU as a pre-med would be helpful. Any thoughts about research and other considerations would be great.