Okay, thanks! What are LACs?
Liberal arts colleges…they are usually 2,000 students or so. Small classes, many have strong bio and bio adjacent majors, generally good research opportunities for undergrads. The highly ranked ones like Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst won’t be taking apps, but many will be. Many are in non-warm climates, but they tend to not be in urban areas (there are some though in cities).
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oh okay, i will look into it, but I have researched some of them and haven’t seen any with application deadlines that late.
There are some LACs still taking apps (even though their deadlines on their websites might have passed.) There are also plenty of larger unis still taking apps too.
At some point towards the end of April, NACAC will publish a list of schools still taking apps for the Fall. That’s usually several hundred schools…all the schools that will be on that list are taking apps right now.
You might not prefer any schools on those lists though to the ones where you already have been accepted.
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Drake would be a solid choice though, especially if you have a full ride.
SUNY Buffalo if you can get into Honors, same thing.
Apply to Honors immediately if you haven’t done so in the past couple days.
(It’s not as important at Drake but here’s the link
Honors Program | Drake University )
LACs have smaller, interactive classes (very few large lecture halls where you sit in a lecture hall&take notes, click on a clicker, etc. Both are valid, but offer different ways of learning.) and professors who are hired for their ability to teach at the undergraduate level&integrate students into their research. In the colleges listed below, students are less preprofessional and more learning/research focused, but you would find that at Honors colleges too. The issue is that many Honors colleges may not be as open to a late application, though you can try.
My recommendation would be to apply to “less obvious”, majors. Comb through each website.
2 examples:
At Penn State your odds of being branched are high at this point but to increase your odds you can check summer session (if you’re available then) and choose either Biological Anthropology (+expressing interest in Paterno Fellows) or Epidemiology&Infectious Disease for a major.
At Iowa State, CALS has Biochem and genetics as majors.
And their Honors program has an April 1 deadline
https://www.honors.iastate.edu/program/prospective-members/first-year-admissions
Keeping in mind you’d want a stronger college for science research than Drake or SUNY Buff which are already sure things, you can email Kalamazoo, St Olaf, Lawrence, Denison - present your academic&athletic profile+roughly how much ~~ your parents can afford, indicate you would be grateful if they could let you know whether you could still apply.
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you’re saying buff and drake are better than wagner in this instance?
Wagner would be great for a domestic student who wants to be premed.
For an international interested in research, SUNY Buffalo (despite my not liking the weather 
) and Drake are better, especially if you can get into the Honors college at Buffalo.
Other universities listed would have other benefits but would provide equal or better research opportunities (especially if you only play D3 and thus have a lot more time for research).
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If SUNY Buffalo is still in consideration, @aunt_bea may have relevant input.
Best of luck. I realize this process is especially difficult for international students. Thank you to Myos for their support of international students on CC.
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I agree that SUNY buff is an excellent choice, plus they have a very supportive system for their international candidates!
Our daughter is exceptionally bright (Yale admitted) and she was in the UB honors program but her classmates and dorm mates were also strong.
So you buy a winter coat and adjust to the weather, which is what our daughter did. She decorated her single dorm room in Hawaiian themed Decor, complete with, yes, surfboard. She kept the heat on high but didn’t really need to because the rest of the dorm was unbaringly hot. Even for us when we visited.
She still wore her reef sandals in the middle of the snow. I don’t understand that, but go figure.
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@Flatrestaurant In case it isn’t clear, @aunt_bea 's daughter is from a very warm part of the US (southern California). And she adjusted to the weather at SUNY Buff and loved her time there.
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We are from San Diego and I have three bright children who all were accepted to their UC’s, along with various top 10 schools.
Yes our eldest purposely accepted admission to SUNY Buffalo because of the NY med school affiliation.
In California, if you attend a UC, you are not guaranteed admission to the UC med schools because there are too many students. The UC med schools want a variety of students from schools throughout the United States.
Our daughter discovered a program through SUNY Buffalo which, if she maintained a high GPA, and was biology focused, she could gain direct admission to one of the upstate New York medical schools.
They don’t have that program anymore because it’s become too competitive from what I understand.
She found that she loved her biomedical classes but she liked the engineering portions. So, she switched to electrical engineering and computer software.
She spent five years in the tundra of Buffalo and yes survived, and liked the weather change!
The school has acrylic tunnels to go from building to building and the dorms have underground bus routes to pick up the students and makeup lit so accommodating that it just becomes the norm you don’t notice the snow.
i don’t have any advice, but in the same boat as you as a HS senior except applied for microbiology and i am an in-state student. wishing you luck!!! my application just finally went into review three days ago :))
Another option for rolling Admissions is Manhattan College.
Manhattan is smaller (I think 3,000-4,000) but has a campus and it is literally in NYC. They still are accepting applications. They are an interesting combination of STEM and liberal arts and Engineering. I know several people who graduated and they are very smart people.
Manhattan doesn’t have neuroscience as a major but you could combine Math and Bio. One of the math professors is coincidentally a Pitt Nueroscience PhD and does computational Neuro work.
The school is in the middle of making changes to their programs to add more health programs like nursing and other majors. That works in your favor because I think it turned off some liberal arts majors.
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