<p>I am deeply interested in attending graduate school for computational neuroscience after college, and I know that undergraduate research experience is very important if not crucial. Considering Neuroscience is not offered as a major, what major would be best for access to this research opportunity and be most helpful for my graduate interests? Also, how many gay people are on campus?</p>
<p>If you are specifically interested in computational neuroscience, the best majors at tech would be electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics. I would also suggest a minor in psychology.</p>
<p>You can also visit lab pages of professors whose research interests you and look at their undergraduate majors, and those of their current grad students. Neuroscience is a very interdisciplinary field, so a number of majors would be appropriate, but you want to be sure you have taken plenty of math and computer science courses in addition to showing an interest in neuroscience through other coursework and research.</p>
<p>Regarding gay life, Georgia Tech has a Pride Alliance ([Georgia</a> Tech Pride Alliance](<a href=“http://pride.262144.info/]Georgia”>http://pride.262144.info/)). There is also an LGBT organization called oSTEM that is focused on professional development (<a href=“https://www.facebook.com/OstemAtGeorgiaTech[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/OstemAtGeorgiaTech</a>). Student government is working on getting an LGBT Resource Center on campus, and establishing a Greek allies program to support LGBT members of each Greek chapter on campus. There are plenty of out students on campus, but I wouldn’t consider Tech a mecca for LGBT students.</p>