<p>What small schools have good science programs (biology, chemistry, physics, math)</p>
<p>And small as in something like LAC, but doesn't have to be. I'm hoping for schools that have small class sizes and are more focused on undergrads.</p>
<p>any top school will give you great education in the sciences as at the undergrad level, science is science. it doesn’t vary much.</p>
<p>What ELSE do you want? research? prestige? Internship opportunities? What is your goal for your future? Ph.D? MD? </p>
<p>This would all be helpful.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd and Caltech come to mind. I’m not very familiar with LAC’s unfortunately, so I can’t help you there.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd definitely comes to mind</p>
<p>I don’t think I care too much about prestige. I’ll be hoping to get into med school (MD) or podiatry school (DPM) after undergrad, so I think research and internships opportunities are great</p>
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<p>just off the top of my head:</p>
<p>Wesleyan (best for research amongst LACs, i believe), Williams, Harvey Mudd (the campus leaves a little to be desired…), Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Rice, etc.</p>
<p>You get my point haha. There are a lot of good schools which fit your criteria. Some notable ones I didn’t mention were harvard, stanford, cornell, Penn because of size.</p>
<p>harvey mudd and caltech definitely come to mind.</p>
<p>I did use search function, but it wasn’t the exact same thing.</p>
<p>Heh guess Harvey Mudd comes to everyones mind…</p>
<p>So it seems like a lot of the schools, more or less, are about the same?</p>
<p>Carleton, Grinnell, Haverford, and Wesleyan should be at the top of the list.</p>
<p>mathlegend, Harvey Mudd is in my opinion the best (and hardest) place to get an undergraduate science education</p>
<p>Also consider Middlebury.</p>
<p>U of Rochester</p>
<p>W&M has the smallest class sizes of the top publics and is or is tied for the top med school accept rates (although people say don’t pay much attention to that for various reasons) in the same category. It is very undergrad focused and even Freshman are encouraged to do research. In a bio class some Freshmen recently found a new bacteriophage which may be useful in treating tuberculosis.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info everyone. Is W&M college of William and Mary in virginia?</p>
<p>Holy Cross has a very strong science program and just completed a $60 million new science building… HC has 2800 students with a nice campus-only 1 hour from Boston-and a very good alumni network.</p>
<p>Holy Cross is affiliated with a religion right? Does that affect anything?</p>
<p>Yes, W&M = The College of William and Mary in Virginia. You knew the “in Virginia” part so I’m guessing that you know its actually a university and the College part is for historical reasons.</p>
<p>As for religious colleges and universities, the main difference would be campus culture, as far as I have been able to tell. The degree to which religion affects each institution varies though. If anything, I think it may help increase the academics of a university.</p>
<p>Really? Thats it? So for religious schools, there’s no required religion classes or stuff like that?</p>
<p>The location is not that “amazing” but definitely try to take a look at Rose-Hulman.</p>