Need Advice (Picking College)!

wvcollegecrazy
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:03:24 +0000

Hey everyone!

After the onslaught of decisions this week I managed to scrape by with some acceptances. Right now the one’s I’m considering are MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. I want to do Biology/Neuroscience and I’m hoping to do an MD/PhD or something of the sort in grad school. Which school would be the best for me?

MIT: Has a really nice neuroscience center and UROP program but is it too techie? (That might be a good thing because tech is going to be integrated into bio soon anyway). I’ve lived in the dorms before and I know I like this place but I’m not sure that it would be the BEST for me academically.

Columbia: Offering me Aid and Science Research Fellow position (money for research/ priority spots?). I actually really like the core (I love reading/humanities) but I’m not sure if it will be as useful. I also like NYC and the fact that I would be able to pursue visual arts.

Princeton: I’ve never been there but I’ve heard the campus was nice and the research was great. I like the senior thesis idea and that the school is undergraduate oriented.

Please give me any advice you can! Thank you guys so much! I’ve been on CC for a long time and without all of the advice I’ve gotten thus far from this site I would have never made it this far! :D