Ivy League Question

College Search & Lists
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<p>Hey! I want to be a chemistry major undergrad. Recently, I have been looking at the Ivy League colleges, but don’t know which to choose. I don’t want to waste money to apply to them all. I already crossed out Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell on my list. </p>

<p>I still have Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, Brown, and MIT (I know it is not an Ivy). Do you know which of these schools have a good chemistry program? Does any of them have a core curriculum that I should know about? Can one double major in any of these schools? How much is the course workload? </p>

<p>I want to get into the best college possible. How is campus life for these schools? How are the dorms? Do they have air conditioner? </p>

<p>Thanks for everyone who responds to this thread!</p>

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<p>Brown has no core at all</p>

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<p>Brown also isn’t that great for Chemistry.</p>

<p>The rest of your Ivies are definitiely Top 20 Chemistry programs.</p>

<p>The best Chemistry programs are at MIT, UC Berkeley, Caltech, Harvard & Stanford IMHO.</p>

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<p>Columbia has a vast, sweeping core curriculum:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/[/url]”>http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>MIT does have a core curriculum, but it’s a curriculum which is pretty standard for science majors (2 semesters physics, 2 semesters calc, 1 semester bio, 1 semester chem, 8 semesters humanities/arts/social sciences). It doesn’t interfere with double-majoring – about 25% of students complete two majors.</p>

<p>For information about campus life and dorm life at MIT, I would suggest checking out the [MIT</a> blogs](<a href=“http://my.mit.edu%5DMIT”>http://my.mit.edu).</p>