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:) I am searching for a good undergrad college in the US, Canada or England. Needs to have a good science program ie genetics, chemical engineering, biochemistry, etc. Could y'all name some for me?

Well I'm more familure with graduate programs, but schools with good biomedical graduate programs often have good undergraduate genetics and biochemistry programs. I can't comment on chemical engeniering).

Best schools but hard to get into (might be missing quite a few):
University of Pennsylvania (where I am now), Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis (good programs, but the location and people are bad), Duke, University of Washington, UC San Diego, UC San Fransisco, UC Davis, Stanford, Berkely, University of Michigan, etc.

Decent schools
Ohio State (where I went for undergrad), Rochester (sounds okay, though never went there). University of Chicago (that might actually belong on top catagory), etc.

These aren't all the schools, just ones that I have looked into. There are other good ones that I just don't feel like I have the knowledge to comment on (good schools such as Princeton and others).

in Canada, look at McGill. Harvard is the McGill of America ;)

BU is excelent in all fields. Expensive, but give decent scholarships. Most of my friends are science majors and say its good.

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Washington University in St. Louis (good programs, but the location and people are bad)
Uh, what? How are Saint Louisans "bad"?

Uh, what? How are Saint Louisans "bad"?
Ooooh he gon' get it

Can't name some for your field of study, but what I would say is to take a look at the UCAS website for the UK. It's got all the Uni's and should have the links that take you to each uni site.

Then check the National League Tables for the uni's, and then see if there's any info on The Times website. (no time to check the last one for you at the mo' , sorry.)

If you know what field you wish to work in, try and find out if there are particular Uni's that employers in that field prefer.

See if the NUS has anything to say about the Uni's you're loking at.. as after all, it's not all work.

Good luck. :)

Uh, what? How are Saint Louisans "bad"?

Nah, I didn't mean to insult the people of the whole city I only ment the people at the school. I can't comment on everyone in that city, though if they are anything like the people at the school I don't want to be there. I went there for an interview. They were really unfriendly. I sort of kept to myself. They were really intolerant of the fact I don't drink. When I said I don't drink they at someone said. "That's okay we have wine." When I explained I don't drink at all they didn't get it (they were literally confused as if they had never met someone like me before). They proceded to take my refusal to drink as an insult. I've always been able to go to parties and have a great time without drinking. Except for some teasing I've always been accepted. I guess having budwieser there makes it sort of a drinking culture. I maybe talked to two people while I was there, and one I managed to unintentionally insult. She was just a moron and misunderstood what I said. Everyone there thought the midwest was the entire world and that St. Louis and/or Denver where the greatests cities in the world. I had to explain myself for applying to East Coast schools. They couldn't comprehend why anyone would want to go there. They knew nothing about the east coast and all they could tell me is that they heard the people there were unfriendly. Sort of ironic that the people in the east coast schools were much friendlier.

They took us out to bars, like most schools do on their interview (you get spoiled if you are applying to graduate school in the biological sciences). But these bars were nasty, unlike the ones in other cities. They were just places to get trashed. They had no atmosphere, no conversation. Just lots of beer. Everything was tacky from beer, so you couldn't sit down or lean against anything. Then I asked what people do for fun in St. Louis, and they kept listing bars. I then asked them what else. After giving me a funny look as if I was from Mars, they started listing proffessional sports teams (which they would watch play as they got trashed). I got the impression St. Louis is a cultural waste land, and thats from someone that went to undergrad in Columbus, OH.

That was the only interview I disliked. I pretty much told them that I wasn't coming to that school and wasn't surprised when I was rejected. Only reason I sugest it is that is the school really does have a good program and that maybe not everyone's experience is as bad as mine. If you are a white midwesterner with liberal leanings (simply because you are rebelling agasint your ultra conservative parents) and love to get drunk watching American football, then by all means that's the school for you.

Sorry for the long rant