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Thanks! So far it seems a little too good to be true. I guess I'll see when I check it out this weekend.

Collins Crossing is in a great location and has good reviews online. Does anyone know if it's heavily undergrad? I haven't seen it recommended on here but it looks great.

Groceries are inconvenient for sure, but there is a bus system that goes to the Publix closest to campus. It's on Ocala Rd if you want to look at housing closer to it. At that price range I would look at places off of Jackson Bluff or Belle Vue. That's the less safe part of town but I know plenty of people who live there happily without any problems. If you want cheap AND close there's gotta be some trade off. I know some people who live in Indian Oaks and like it. That area is really close to the football stadium if you are interested in sports at all! Another one thats actually not in that area but might be closer to your department is Richard Place (On Brevard St). You might have to live with more than one roommate there though, I'm not sure. Both Indian Oaks and Richard Place are relatively quiet. Call Street is another popular area to live if you want to walk to school but it's pricier and way louder. Keep in mind that FSU is a huge party school and when you live in real dense undergrad areas it's going to be REALLY noisy. From Call St I could hear AJs (a bar) playing music until 3 am pretty much Thursdays-Saturdays.

I agree with both of these! Try to sort out what happened with your old professor, and fix any bad blood between you. But most professors should be pretty understanding towards undergrads, and if you a professor you like as a teacher it's worth asking if you can work with them for a while. If you're not that interested in their research, the experience will be great to show professors you ARE interested in later.

Hey guys! I went to FSU for undergrad, so fire away any questions you have! Plenty of people go carless in Tallahassee - FSU has a pretty decent free bus system. It only goes to certain apartment complexes, so if you decide to go this route you will probably be living near undergrads. I think there are city buses as well but I don't think it's a super great public transportation system outside of FSU. Here is the FSU bus system: http://transportation.fsu.edu/maps/seminole-express If you click the real-time link you can see a map of where the buses go. It's definitely way nicer to have a car, but I know lots of people who didn't for a few years and were fine. I had lots of fun in Tallahassee but it's definitely a college town, despite the presence of the capital. I would say avoid living south of campus for safety. I never felt unsafe really anywhere but property theft definitely does happen. Like many college towns, the farther away you live, the less undergrads will be around. So it just depends what you're looking for. I happen to prefer renting individually owned townhomes/houses rather than apartment complexes but if you have a preference I might be able to make some suggestions. Cost of living is generally really inexpensive and housing is pretty easy to find, but it definitely helps to look earlier. Killearn would be the really nice area (but farther out and pricier) where a lot of the professors live. There's a lot of restaurants/bars/shopping on N Monroe St and Thomasville Rd and that area is a pretty cool place to live, especially if you want to be near the interstate. If you don't want to have a car, I might be able to give some better recommendations if you have a price range? I lived in the Timbers on White Dr for a couple of years. The townhouse was older but huge and pretty inexpensive, and there were quite a few grad students in the area. It was biking distance but probably not walking, and the bus stopped over that way. It's not that close to many places you might want to hang out outside of school though. Happy to answer any other questions!

More info: research at UNC is definitely a better fit, loved the professors I met with. Emory has a few people I could see myself working with, is a broader program in case my interests change, and seemed more exciting in general in terms of translational impact. I also have family in Atlanta, which would be a nice bonus!

How much research have you done about UCSD? I interviewed with biomedical science, and they seemed really open to letting you work with basically any lab, including ones at Salk and Scripps. I would be doing a ton of searching to try to find faculty and talking to grad students/professors in any labs I find. I have also gotten in touch with people I hit it off with at recruitment to ask for some direction trying to find labs that better matched my research interests. But I'm from Florida so Chicago sounds absolutely miserable to me, and you might not be as adverse to it as I am! That being said, I wouldn't worry too much about ranking. If your POIs at Northwestern have graduate students who got good postdocs/jobs, that's all that really matters (or so I've been told). Plus like the person above said, Northwestern is an awesome school too. I will say I got the same vibe as you did from UCSD - just didn't seem that friendly. But quality of life outside the lab matters almost as much as in it. I'm struggling with a similar decision. Good luck!

Emory has joint BME with Ga Tech and some of the the faculty in that department would be open to taking on a pharm student.

For applied drug delivery research as a pharmacologist/pharmaceutical scientist.