<p>What say you regarding a true scientist? We've read all that is online, and each offers its own opportunities. DD will visit, but I don't like what I don't know (a normal dad). Any students/alumni that have been there and done that . . . willing to give a bit of advice, please? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>What kind of science? Natural science or engineering/applied sciences?
for the former, Princeton and Stanford would be on par, and for the latter, Stanford would be a league ahead of the rest.</p>
<p>She will major in Chemistry. Gradschool in pharmacology. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I was a Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics (MB&B) major and felt very well supported. I had my choice of laboratories to supervise my research and was welcomed by a full professor with national prominence. Yale’s recent acquisition of the West Campus (hundreds of millions worth of built out laboratory space) is an exciting opportunity to recruit new science faculty and offer them interdisciplinary laboratory space of the highest quality. Yale would be a wonderful place to study chemistry and your DD should definitely attend Bulldog Days and explore the science opportunities first hand.</p>
<p>Yale GrandandDad is wise, indeed! Thank you for your specifics. That’s what we really need.</p>
<p>One of the best features of science at Yale is the availability of research opportunities. There is a list of over 100 professors on the Yale Undergraduate Society for Biological Sciences website that are open to undergrads interested in research; most of them are professors at the medical school and some are from Yale College. I e-mailed 5 of them expressing interest in their research and received positive responses from all within a week, so <em>I</em> could choose who I wanted to work with, instead of them choosing me. All for a freshman who also has had no prior research experience. I am currently a member of a genetics lab where I’m doing a very interesting independent project (under the instruction of the professor himself, not a post-doc, and no one else is working on the project except me!). The professor is truly interested in giving me the best research experience possible, so I’m kind of in charge of my own project and not simply doing random tasks to help out a post-doc.</p>
<p>Yelopen, your research experience is exactly what DD is looking for!</p>
<p>^Yelopen speaks of the odd situation where Yale Science undergrads are fewer than research spots – supply and demand. Try that at a place like Cornell or Stanford – I think it’d be unlikely.</p>