I'm working on a neuroscience/politics double major at Bates College in Lewiston, ME. Though the location isn't great (minus some spectacular Indian food locally), I love our campus. The school is fairly small, at ~2000 students, so you can get really close with your professors and have a lot of access to helping out with their research. As a senior next year, I'll also be writing two theses (one for each major) where I will work on independent research. I think the only thing I would change about Bates is their major + 2 system, because the clusters of classes (generally 4 per concentration) you have to choose from to take with your major don't always make a lot of sense. There might be a "law and society concentration" with politics and philosophy classes, for example, but no basic "politics". A year also isn't a very long time to expect us to be able to do a lot of coherent research. The teaching faculty is phenomenal, though, and our deans tend to be incredibly helpful. The student body seems really well-educated and you can hold an intelligent conversation with just about anyone there (though there's also an air of elitism about the student body).