<p>Hey, all; after my previous post, I started poking around more online and tried to find some more information on neuro schools, but most posts/online seemed to just pop up with the same top schools over and over: UCB, UCSF, UCSD, Northwestern, Cornell, Rockefeller, MIT, etc.</p>
<p>Can anybody direct me to a list, or point me in the right direction for good mid-level schools? I want to do either gene vector engineering (for the BME) or neuronal stem cell differentiation/neurogenesis (for the neuro), and need to get some “safe” or back-up schools on my list.</p>
<p>Maybe since you have such a clear idea of what you want to do, you should make a list of labs that you really like after reading lots of publications and then match up which labs are at which school and decide where to apply based on that. You can get a general feel for the selectivity of a program from its relative ranking in US News and World or from their previous application statistics. If you find labs you would like and then apply widely, you are sure to hit on some successes.</p>
<p>Use belevitt’s method to find schools. I would also just check a bunch of school websites. Make sure there are several labs that you are interested in that school. I have used pretty much my whole list of 20 people in the process of picking a lab. You can not even rely on calling people at the school before taking an offer, since people will change their mind about taking students. I do not think you do rotations in BME, so this is neuro specific.</p>
<p>As for schools to check out, I would suggest looking at UT southwestern. I am not sure if they have a stem cell program, but they may have the most faculty of any school so they are bound to have something. Here are some other programs you could check out for neuro: OHSU, UAlabama, Yale, Uwashigton, U wisconsin, WashU, Duke, NIH Gpp programs, stanford, UCirvine, brown</p>