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the number of students who do the neuroscience concentration is generally quite small, between 10 and 20 people out of over 100 bio majors. This is true for a number of reasons:
neuroscience and molecular bio concentrations require a thesis and independent study, which turns some people off.
the neuroscience concentration is a pretty hardcore major with a lot of requirements, which turns a lot of people off.
the less hardcore people interested in neuro-type things do BBB, which is a huge major in its own right (the result of this in many ways is that the neuroscience concentrations are treated like a special subset of the BBB population as well, because the neuro/BBB faculty are mostly the same).
The neuroscience concentration also is a bit more geared to people who are actually very interested in science, whereas most BBB and bio majors are premeds who didn't know what else to major in.
Overall, this small number is really great, you know most everyone in your concentration as well as get a lot of face time with the faculty in the neuroscience-specific courses (the 400-level courses are glorified journal clubs)
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