<p>Please understand the neuroscience is a very advanced field that combines a number of different subfields. And it is still evolving. First, neuroscience demands enormous expenditures in equipment. You can learn about neuroscience but you really can’t do neuroscience without access to MRI machines. It is dependent on doing an MRI of the brain during activities. Neuroscience programs, even at the largest universities, are very often attached to medical schools for this reason. Second, neuroscience is as an activity is very, very time and expertise intensive. Meaning it takes a long time to get institutional approval to actually engage in the studies and the actual experiments are very difficult, and I hate to say this but the chances of an undergraduate having anything but the most peripheral engagement in this type of work is not very good. Third, neuroscience is very inter-disciplinary, as one of the other commenters has mentioned and they all come at it from a different perspective. There is neuroscience and psychology (read Barsalou if you get a chance), there is neuroscience and education (read neurons to neighborhoods if you get a chance), there is neuroscience and computer science. </p>
<p>My advice is this, so to a really good college but don’t think in terms of something as specialized as neuroscience. Become a psychology major with an emphasis in a cognitive science concentration (which I believe they have at Grinnell). Take courses in computers, linguistics, anthropology and education (get as wide a breadth as you can because undergraduate is where you are supposed to do this). And then if you are still interested apply to a top neuroscience program at Yale, UC San Diego, Stanford or something like that.</p>