Is it you or your daughter that is interested in the college search at this point in time? Junior year is often one of the hardest for students academically, and grades will often go lower than in previous years. Your daughter’s standardized test scores are also likely to go up with increased time in class learning new information and a maturing brain. If it’s just you who is interested, then I would keep this information from the forum as your own private activity to think about. She doesn’t need to be thinking about specific colleges at this point. If she’s the one who’s getting interested, then I would focus on the likeliest schools for admission as well as on schools to help determine her preferences (i.e. a campus that is largely focused on STEM fields or has students from all fields, a small/medium/large college, etc). And then in the second semester of junior year you may want to schedule some visits during spring break or at some point when you can see school in session.
But I understand the impulse to explore possibilities, so these are some schools that you may want to investigate. Please note that some schools won’t have a separate neuroscience major, but may have an area of emphasis within the biology or psychology major, or similar. These are (very) roughly in order from likeliest admission to least likely for admission.
- Suffolk (MA)
- Simmons (MA) Women’s college
- Springfield (MA)
- U. at Buffalo (NY)
- SUNY Albany
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Worcester Polytechnic (MA)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic (NY)
- Gettysburg (PA )
- Dickinson (PA )
- Union (NY)
- Howard (D.C.) HBCU
- Lehigh (PA )
- Connecticut College
- U. of Rochester (NY)