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Really? You’ve already created one list of colleges for a prospective major and scrapped it. Now you want to do it all over again? What if you apply to colleges based on their biochemistry programs and decide you want to do psychology? This is why picking colleges based on intended majors is usually an extremely bad idea. (A good friend of mine from high school learned this the hard way. He was completely set on biophysics - took all available AP sciences, did research at his local university, etc. He chose a less selective college because of its strength in the sciences but soon discovered he surprisingly didn’t want to do science anymore. He wound up in linguistics and had to transfer.)</p>
<p>Figure out what you want in a college. Among other factors, consider…</p>
<p>– Size
– Location (rural, suburban, or urban?)
– Student body composition (do you want diversity? do you need a large LGBT or Jewish population?)
– Cost
– Selectivity
– Greek life (small scene, large scene, or none?)
– Athletics (do you want to play or watch?)
– “Atmosphere” or “feel” (quirky? preppy? artsy?)</p>
<p>Any college worth its salt has decent biology and chemistry offerings, and the differences at the undergraduate level will be minimal. The differences in size, location, focus, etc., on the other hand, can be HUGE. The fact that people are suggesting NC State and Rhodes to the same poster indicates that we need much more information.</p>