Help! NYU or UCLA or UW

whenhen
Thu, 07 Apr 2016 11:02:21 +0000

New York City and Los Angeles are fun places, but so too is Seattle. Like both NYU and UCLA, the University of Washington is a member of the AAU, one of the premier associations of research universities in North America.

UW has a fantastically large [undergraduate research program](Undergraduate Research Program) which, if you start freshman or sophomore year and get a great GPA/GRE scores (sort of like the SAT), will make you competitive for the best research based graduate programs. If you spend even a fraction of the money you otherwise would have spent on UCLA and NYU, you can go to psychology conferences across the country and even the world, where you will not only be able to present your research, but also network with professors at programs which offer both funding and a high graduate rank.