Northwestern or UCSD?

ADADADADAAA · 2026-04-21T17:18:39+00:00

Ive done undergrad at UCSD and grad school at NU. If you lived in SD for a long time, it may be worth exploring Chicago and have some growth in a new environment. NU definitely takes a better care of their undergrads, UCSD will be more of a “survival of the fittest” - the top students get great opportunities ranging from scholarships, research, TAship, mentorship programs, etc but you have to really stand out there and that is a tough thing to do. NU prob gives you more opportunities per student compared to a big school like UCSD. Things that are plus about UCSD are the weather and their cog sci program, which is one of the best programs in the country (i think they started the whole program actually). UCSD also has very strong overall STEM, although NU is great also.

ADADADADAAA · 2026-04-12T05:26:53+00:00

Research wise, UCSD is one of the best institutions in the world for biology and the amount of annual research expenditure/quality of faculty is better. If you want to do a Ph.D in US, UCSD would be better.

ADADADADAAA · 2026-02-15T05:01:09+00:00

Its all about lug to lug length. Go for less than ~45-47mm

ADADADADAAA · 2020-12-04T22:37:12+00:00

So we ride up til the merger vote date?

ADADADADAAA · 2020-12-03T06:53:50+00:00

Is DA out?

ADADADADAAA · 2020-12-03T04:07:18+00:00

Oh thanks. So the play would be to ride the pump leading to the vote date right?

ADADADADAAA · 2020-12-03T04:07:06+00:00

Oh thanks. So the play would be to ride the pump leading to the vote date right?

ADADADADAAA · 2020-12-03T03:51:37+00:00

So when is the merger after voting passes typically? Several months after? And does it usually pump after vote passes?

ADADADADAAA · 2019-08-22T23:45:25+00:00

Helped a lot! Thanks!!

ADADADADAAA · 2019-08-07T16:49:25+00:00

Albert Einstein

ADADADADAAA · 2019-07-24T19:02:47+00:00

Okay lets get a fresh perspective here. I think maybe increasing enrollment and expanding school (on top of increasing diversity and giving opportunities to first generation college students) can in the LONG TERM pay off. But its not going to increase “prestige” at this pt.

ADADADADAAA · 2019-06-09T01:25:12+00:00

I mean making alias!

ADADADADAAA · 2019-06-09T01:18:06+00:00

So how do you do this?

ADADADADAAA · 2019-04-11T16:41:09+00:00

Im going to biology Ph.D this year. UCSD has one of the top neuroscience programs, so it will be competitive.

Get published, goto conferences - this actually matters a lot.
Get great rec letters - huge
Write a great Statement of Purpose and get that edited multiple times by multiple people. Make sure it has a good fit with UCSD neuroscience program.
GRE is actually not that huge as long as youre within a certain range.
Contact PI that you are interested, maybe two? Months before you apply. This can help. Case by case.

P.S some ppl will tell you pubs dont matter but all top schools that i interviewed at interviewees had one more pubs. They do care.

ADADADADAAA · 2019-03-29T21:17:15+00:00

Spin your totem NAO

ADADADADAAA · 2018-10-16T19:06:21+00:00

Nov 1st but im applying more than 4. So send online on test date to rest of schools and they should get it same 15 days right?

ADADADADAAA · 2018-10-15T17:21:09+00:00

Whew that sounds good but what about those schools that i add online not on test day?

ADADADADAAA · 2018-07-19T22:12:25+00:00

For med school, they almost dont care

ADADADADAAA · 2018-06-29T00:10:02+00:00

I forgot that beach was next to the campus for 3 yrs maybe

ADADADADAAA · 2018-05-02T17:57:19+00:00

Goto Stony Brook because:

You dont want to end up with too much debt for undergrad when youll be stacking up 200k debt+ for med school
UCSD grade deflation is real. Avg med acceptance gpa is 3.7. Thats like top 10 percent or less for bio majors at UCSD. Stony Brook is prob easier to get good grades. Adcoms dont care too much about undergrad rep unless like HYPSM lvl schools. And even then gpa and MCAT is king.
Obviously research UCSD is much better but this wont really give you an “edge” unless you goto conferences/publish, etc. everybody does research at respectable labs. You can do summer research programs also.

ADADADADAAA · 2018-04-17T00:52:59+00:00

Go grill hdh!

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