Cognitive Neuroscience

I can't afford Syracuse or Rochester, or I would be paying quite the fee in loans. I'd pick Syracuse in a heartbeat if I got some good coverage. Not that I wouldn't do graduate school. I'm uncertain bout doing research particularly just yet. If I choose not to go for research during my bachelors than I will probably focus more on cognitive posychology instead of neuroscience. Personlity wise things like FBI and CIA work fits me so I could make cognitive psychology useful. If I do go with research I will lean more towards the neuroscience probably. My interest in the subject is solid however. My associates is Liberal Arts General Studies. I got some of everything right now There are atmosphere and student life aspects in all three of those schools that keeps me indecisive. That is something I'd have to figure out and weigh in, while here I am trying to see what is probbly the better academic setting. And I'd be doing a specific neuroscience major rather than that psyhology/biology dual major.

I am in community college and in my 4th year doing a 2 year degree. I spent plenty of time trying classes. I like some things about biology and cognitive psychology and found this neuoscience to be awesome in both my own research and also the Brain & Behavior course which I enjoyed more than any other class I tried taking liberal arts. The only thing that confuses me is if researching for a living is what I want to do or if I'm better off doing research in my own free time on my call. I don't know a whole lot about the process of getting grants for studies and getting them published or if I have a lot of freedom in deciding what studies or research I would be doing. I am going to figure out by reading on the forums for awhile.

I am interested in doing neuroscience or cognitive psychology which my username clearly indicates. I need to know that my 4 year option will be enough to get me into not just any graduate program but one of the best, so picking the best undergrad school is of interest. Out of state tuition cost too much and being in Long Island NY I can't get financial aid with my family income, meanwhile I am far from living in luxury. My choices are Binghamton University, Oswego University, and Geneseo being the only schools offering a good enough or the best curriculum I can find. Geneseo is the strongest school academically but is a liberal arts college. http://www.geneseo.edu/ Binghamton is a university and although it ranks over Oswego, the only unique thing about the curriculum is a fixation on drug/alcoholism in the brain courses in the neuroscience major. (irony since it is a big drinking school) http://www.binghamton.edu/index.php Oswego is the lowest on the scale but at least I don't feel like I am being set up for a specific focus or concentration and drugs and alcoholism, is a university unlike geneseo. http://www.oswego.edu/ Main reason I am excluding Stony Brook is because I can hardly get work done living at home and would rather dorm, and apparantly half the people in Stony Brook are miserable, and I am pretty succeptible to emotional contagion and would rather avoid that apathetic environment of misery (sarcastic but making my point clear). If anyone knows of schools out of state that offer out of state financial aid or scholarships, and can get me into neuroscience thn please let me know.