Anonymous wrote:Intellectual, quiet kid but has good friends. Doesn’t want rural or a large, impersonal school. Top stats from a well-respected private. Loves learning; not going to college to become captain of industries and get rich. TIA

Wash. U.

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?

Why are most of the respondents recommending schools with sub 15% acceptance rates? Silly.

Not what you are asking but I have a child majoring in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry. Most are research focused...two might go pre-med. My kids all wanted big schools because they are used to that. However two of them are very quiet and quirky - those kinds of kids can find their tribe at big ones. If you go the State School route - would look at Michigan, Wisconsin, Pitt, some of the UCS (Berkely, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz even) and UDub. My kids went that route because the research funding was better - though this was pre-Trump so who knows anymore! But, the culture of it is still there. Johns Hopkins is a great pick but too local for mine. And yes we were biased against red states so take this a whimiscal data point.

It is relatively easy to double major at Northwestern due to the quarter system

Carnegie Mellon

It's Brown. The Open Curriculum makes it easier to explore multiple paths and, if desired, major ("concentrate") in more than one.

Carleton, if it’s not too rural, would be a great ED2 for a kid like this.

What does she see herself doing as an adult? Working in a lab? Being a therapist? Working in an office as a program manager?

Let them explore their major in college. With those interest, it isn’t something that needs to be set in stone in high school. Look for schools strong in those areas and pay attention to other elements of fit for your particular kid.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Chemistry and English.
Northwestern loves those weird combos.

Same with brown. And Yale.

Too late to Ed….

+1000

Anonymous wrote:Look into Amherst, Smith, Hamilton, Grinnell, Brown and URochester for their strong programs in these areas and for their notably flexible curricula. You can screen out rural schools from this group based on your own definition of this aspect.

Amherst is well known for very friendly with double major or even triple major.

Brown has the same flexibility, students can design their own academic path.

Anonymous wrote:Look into Amherst, Smith, Hamilton, Grinnell, Brown and URochester for their strong programs in these areas and for their notably flexible curricula. You can screen out rural schools from this group based on your own definition of this aspect.

Also consider Vassar.

UChicago, Northwestern. NW in particular does have triple majors and is world class for chemistry.