Son of AGDee's College Search Thread

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

My recommendation would be liberal arts colleges with strong alumni networks. Middlebury, Amherst, Wesleyan (CT), all come to mind. My undergrad has a great neuroscience program, but I feel bad about shameless plugs with a 9% admit rate. :-/

I know your undergrad does I think he would love that campus too. I know I thought it was very relaxing and it was move in weekend when I was there.

For a reach, I'm going to have him look into Johns Hopkins too. He's really leaning more toward neurosciences/psychology for a major. It's not as big as the schools he said he thought were overwhelming, but it's not quite as small as Kzoo and Albion.

Otterbein is a definite thought as is Oberlin.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I know your undergrad does I think he would love that campus too. I know I thought it was very relaxing and it was move in weekend when I was there.

For a reach, I'm going to have him look into Johns Hopkins too. He's really leaning more toward neurosciences/psychology for a major. It's not as big as the schools he said he thought were overwhelming, but it's not quite as small as Kzoo and Albion.

Otterbein is a definite thought as is Oberlin.

Oberlin! I wanted to go to Oberlin sooo badly before I seriously looked at my undergrad.

Swarthmore is definitely an option for him. Maybe even one of the smaller state schools like William and Mary, which have an emphasis on undergraduate education and are smaller.

Here's munchkin's post-nap SLAC list:

Swarthmore
Haverford
Oberlin
Amherst
Middlebury
Williams
Wesleyan (CT)
Davidson
Carleton
Macalester
Colorado College
The Claremont Colleges

Again, the smaller state schools like W&M and New College of USF would also prepare him for a good PhD program. From what I'm learning from friends who are in competitive PhD programs, you HAVE to go to a good college (I'm talking top SLAC/state flagships/Ivy) to even be considered for the top PhD programs and be in line to get the top post-docs and fellowships. He'll want to go a school that is part of the Fulbright program as well, to line himself up for good research opportunities as an undergrad. And this is for the sciences--where the funding is plentiful! It's so much harder for the social sciences or the humanities. My friends in those programs have to scramble to make a living.

I'm sure someone will chime in here saying that it doesn't matter where you went to school so long as you're happy--but with the sciences it can be really tough if you didn't have access to certain things.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I know your undergrad does I think he would love that campus too. I know I thought it was very relaxing and it was move in weekend when I was there.

For a reach, I'm going to have him look into Johns Hopkins too. He's really leaning more toward neurosciences/psychology for a major. It's not as big as the schools he said he thought were overwhelming, but it's not quite as small as Kzoo and Albion.

Otterbein is a definite thought as is Oberlin.

If you get to Oberlin, I will meet you-- about 20 miles away. Oberlin is a college like no other. Great school and the most amazing donuts in this oddly random convenience store on the square.

Westerville (Otterbein) is a great college town, too.