Carleton vs. A top national university

betweenschools
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:30:23 +0000

After applying to a bunch of places, and getting rejected from many, i’ve narrowed my top two choices down to Carleton and Carnegie Mellon. While I understand that the two have very different “feels” and “moods,” i’m still at a lost as to how to choose between the two.

I want to major in biological sciences and apparently CMU has a good program where i can concentrate in either biophysics or neuroscience. in addition, they have numerous research programs that run throughout the year.

Carleton has an excellent biology program i’m sure but only offers research programs in the summer. The physics department, on the other hand, has many opportunities and Christensen is supposedly famous.

I suppose research is my main concern, but i may be wrong. How much do medical schools care about research? I don’t know.

I’m visiting Carleton April 20-22 and CMU April 18. If anyone else is going those days my AIM is Rubbersoul615