<p>Thanks for all the responses. I understood the vantage of top LACs, and I realized that my anxiety was just imaginary, since Carleton, in fact, offers 64 bio classes and Reed has strong molecular bio & biochem combined program, although the number of bio classes in Reed seems small. As BrownParent said, I think I should later consider the problems which I’m currently having. But after the advice given in this thread and my further research, my mind is now leaning toward LACs. (like harmonic oscillation, ironically lol) By the way, the following is the questions I just had, and I wish somebody would answer them:</p>
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<li><p>For Carleton and Reed, I have to take at least one class which is unrelated to major to meet the requirement (the order doesn’t matter, though.) For Grinnell and Wesleyan, such requirement is so weak that theoretically I can take as many bio classes as possible. But they are not as good at bio as Carleton and Reed. For research universities like UCLA and UCB, I don’t always have to take humanities for graduation, so this kind of course plan is possible: <a href=“https://www.ibp.ucla.edu/ugrad_major_plan.php”>https://www.ibp.ucla.edu/ugrad_major_plan.php</a>
However, I still have to take about one class which is unrelated to my major, but that class can be just science and not need to be humanities. Is my understanding all correct? Which of these three types of schools would you recommend me?</p></li>
<li><p>If I feel like to take advanced classes which is not offered by my LAC, how can I study it effectively? Especially, for the schools like Reed and Carleton which have neither grad school nor consortium like Claremont LACs, this problem cannot be solved easily. Should I study that area by myself by just having some help from my teacher occasionally? </p></li>
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