<p>My daughter is looking into science, not pre-med, more research interest or pre-vet. She really likes Bucknell. She is also a vey strong IVY candidate but was a bit intimitaded by them while touring some of those schools. She doesn’t want to be caught up in the whole premed competitive scene at some of those school. She just loves science and animals and would like to be at a school that will nurture that and give her some direction that is not medical school. (We are physicians and I think my kids have been talked out of going into medicine. Sorry to any premed hopefuls!) She compares every school back to Bucknell. I was hoping someone could comment on sciences, research projects, etc at Bucknell, placement into PhD. or vet school. She is hoping Bucknell is stimulating and challenging enough. She also would like to play for the orchestra/Band as an extracurricular and was impressed with the music center. Any comments?</p>
<p>if anyone had any info on this topic, i'm curious too... prospective chem major. from what i see on bucknell's website, research is pretty strong, but other than that, idk.
anyone else?</p>
<p>ill try to respond more fully to the first post in the next few days, but for now ill say that bucknells strengths are and will likely always be in the sciences and engineering. as such, its definitely a great place to be a science major, pre-med or not.</p>
<p>speaking anecdotally, one of my good friends was steered to bucknells chemistry and chemical engineering departments by his father, a science professor at cornell. his son could have gotten into cornell (or a similar calibre school), too, so i think that speaks pretty well for how our programs are seen by at least some in the academic community.</p>
<p>looking at the data, bucknells class of 2006 science majors are attending some pretty good graduate (and for the op, vet) programs. an animal behavior major is studying conservation biology at columbia, biochem majors are at schools including cornells vet school, harvard (for biomedical sciences) and johns hopkins (for molecular biology). bio majors are at non-med schools including iowa st (vet), and nyu (biomedical sciences). a chem major is studying oceanography at duke and others are studying chemistry at good programs like pittsburgh, rochester, penn and johns hopkins. and just for the sake of semi-completeness, physics majors are continuing their studies at schools including ucla, maryland, georgia tech and emory. this is a very solid list (and again, there are more students getting graduate degrees at non 'wow' schools) when one considers just how difficult it is to get into top graduate programs, something i know all too well! (i am just beginning my work on a phd in mathematics at the university of maryland.)</p>
<p>Thanks. I think my D would do well by Bucknell. Looking forward to hearing more. Best of luck at Univ of Md.</p>
<p>bucknell's fall open house schedule is up on thier website... the science one is october 2nd(and you can stay overnight the 1st). sounds like it'd be perfect for your daughter-
<a href="http://bucknell.edu/x37155.xml%5B/url%5D">http://bucknell.edu/x37155.xml</a></p>
<p>Thanks, we'll look into it.</p>