What major and colleges would you recommend for a kid who loves neuroscience, chemistry and English?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies or stanford or WAS. There are finance types in all top school yet also the highest % intellectual love to learn types.

WAS?

Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore

P Pomona

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or stanford or WAS. There are finance types in all top school yet also the highest % intellectual love to learn types.

WAS?

Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore

P Pomona

What a strange pairing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience is a terrible major. Unless you're going to med school, there are no jobs. It's not a major that has a path forward. Many undergrads pick it because it sounds fancy and interesting, so there's a glut of neuroscience majors with no job prospects. Just don't.

If she wants to do science, she should pick a core science (chemistry, biochemistry, biology) and take neuroscience as her electives. For any of these she should plan on getting a PhD, though that's a tough path given the cuts to science funding by the Trump administration.

Neuroscience is a terrible degree of you need to be in the field and are too lazy for a PhD. Otherwise, it’s great to pivot into Ai/ML, UX, Data science roles. This days, if your neuro program isn’t training you to do computational neuro, it’s a crap program that’s underpreparing students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or stanford or WAS. There are finance types in all top school yet also the highest % intellectual love to learn types.

WAS?

Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore

P Pomona

What a strange pairing.

Yet accurately describes much of their student bodies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton has a great neuroscience department as well as chemistry and English if your kid can get in.

Dear Lord

Yes, triple major at Princeton.

OP didn't say the kid was going to triple major. Sounded like a student who was figuring out their way and has multiple academic passions. Princeton does have a terrific neuroscience institute, funded by their alums Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Scott.

[Anonymous]

As a practical matter, I would suggest they start out going for a science major with a minor in English. Double majoring doesn't necessarily get them anywhere career-wise; minor or even a smattering of English electives may be enough for whatever it is they'd be looking to get out of an English major.

[Anonymous]

I would encourage her to look at (and visit, if possible) William & Mary as a likely, Carleton as a target, Rice as a reach.

[Anonymous]

Reed.