<p>How does it?</p>
<p>Stanford is far better than Princeton in this regard I believe.</p>
<p>Stanford’s ranked top 10 in neuroscience/neurobiology (and as high as #1), and in the top 5 for reputation. Its one of Stanford’s strengths.</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings Overview: Neuroscience and Neurobiology - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124747/]NRC”>http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124747/)</p>
<p>Princeton is also pretty decent in neuroscience (I have two friends actually doing a PhD in the program there now), but I think Stanford definitely has the advantage here.</p>
<p>While the neuroscience program at Stanford is grad program, you’ll have access to the offerings of the grad program, and there are ways for you to pursue neuroscience as an undergrad.</p>
<p>[Stanford</a> Institute for Neuro-Innovation & Translational Neurosciences - Stanford University School of Medicine](<a href=“http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/]Stanford”>http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/)
[Stanford</a> University Explore Courses](<a href=“http://explorecourses.stanford.edu/CourseSearch/]Stanford”>Stanford University Explore Courses)</p>
<p>(see the departments of neurobiology, neurology, and neurosciences)</p>
<p>These are the courses that you’d be able to take to supplement your curriculum. There are different ways that you can pursue neuroscience in a major–the best, I think, is symbolic systems with a neuroscience concentration</p>
<p>[Symbolic</a> Systems Undergraduate Core](<a href=“Symbolic Systems Program”>Symbolic Systems Program)
[Symbolic</a> Systems Neurosciences Concentration](<a href=“Symbolic Systems Program”>Symbolic Systems Program)</p>
<p>but you can also major in biology, psychology, etc. and focus in neuroscience.</p>
<p>If you are referring to undergraduate education, you can pursue Human Biology, an interdisciplinary major that also allows you to focus on a particular concentration, of which includes Brain and Behavior (Area 6).</p>
<p>Why is the acceptance rate for medical school ~93 for Princeton and ~75% for Stanford?</p>
<p>Here is the info for Princeton’s current graduating class:
[Princeton</a> University - Career Services - Online Publication](<a href=“http://ocsweb.princeton.edu/pro-flip/Main.php?MagID=1&MagNo=1]Princeton”>http://ocsweb.princeton.edu/pro-flip/Main.php?MagID=1&MagNo=1)</p>
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<p>In general, med school acceptance rates are not very illusive. For example, a student is counted among the successful applicants if they get into at least one med school, even if that med school is one they would never actually want to attend. Basically, it’s closer to being a measure of how “safe” the student was in applying (imagine a high school boasting 100% acceptance rate to college–it says nothing about the caliber of schools that they are admitted to, and contrary to popular belief, not all med schools are created equal).</p>
<p>Another possible reason is that Stanford has more premed students majoring in something very hard (like bioengineering or chemistry), and their GPAs might not make the cut. I’ve heard that the med school acceptance rate for human biology majors (the most popular major on campus, and also the most popular premed major) is in the 90%+ range.</p>
<p>Other reasons that make med school acceptance rates difficult to compare is that some schools screen their premed applicants and only choose to help out those they believe will be successful (so the others don’t bother applying). For example, I’ve heard that Duke only includes statistics for the students who applied through their premed advising center, leaving out the others who might bring down their overall acceptance rate. Other colleges make the premed classes unnecessarily hard (harder than a typical intro chem/bio class, which is generally hard) in order to “weed out” or discourage premed students who wouldn’t have as good a chance.</p>
<p>Basically, there’s no point looking at overall med school acceptance rates without looking at context (what schools they got into, etc.).</p>
<p>^ those aren’t the NRC rankings (which are not one single ranking, but a range over two different measures, the S and R).</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings Overview: Biology/Integrated Biology/Integrated Biomedical Sciences - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Biology/Integrated Biology/Integrated Biomedical Sciences”>NRC Rankings Overview: Biology/Integrated Biology/Integrated Biomedical Sciences)</p>
<p>Princeton’s molecular bio ranking is high in the S-rank. Its molecular bio program and Stanford’s biological sciences are tied in the R-rank. Either way, molecular bio is tangentially related to neuroscience, and the NRC ranking for bio is kind of a motley combination of biology, integrated biology, and biomedical sciences (as it’s for everything “not elsewhere classified”).</p>
<p>US NEWS rankings:</p>
<p>biological science: Stanford #1, Princeton #7
neural science: Stanford #2, Princeton not top 10</p>
<p>genetics: Stanford #1, Princeton #10
biochemistry: Stanford #2, Princeton not top 10
molecular biology: Stanford #2, Princeton #10
micro biology: Stanford #2, Princeton not top 10
cell biology: Stanford #2, Princeton not top 10
immunology: Stanford #3, Princeton not top 9</p>