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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back again. Thanks to all posters who have made suggestions. I appreciate having wider range of targets and other reaches. After seeing friends' kids get rejected by Georgia Tech, CMU and JHU and other science oriented reaches, I'm getting really nervous seeing my kid's dream school list. Hopefully these suggestions will be helpful for parents of other sciencey kids as well. We have mostly been focused on research universities but plan on touring a few LACs soon just to gain more familiarity with them. Neither DH nor I attended an LAC so they are a bit of an exotic animal to us, but we wouldn't rule them out. I can see how they would be better for quality of instruction, but I am not sure how the students get research experience when the faculty are primarily teaching. [/quote]

My kid sought a SLAC to study science in preparation for getting a PhD. There are many threads about why that can be a great combination. We just made sure the school had opportunities for kids to do research. (Pro tip: are there posters hanging in the hallways of the Science departments, from professional conferences that list students as co-authors?)

My kid had her choice of labs, and published papers in peer reviewed journals as an undergrad. You also get to know teachers so well, they can write strong recommendations for grad school (and elite summer internships). Finally, you are not competing with grad students to work in faculty members’ labs.

She considered Bowdoin, Tufts, Mt Holyoke, Hamilton, Davidson and Haverford. [/quote]

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