<p>Astrophysicsmom,</p>
<p>nothing wrong with physicist! In fact, until he decided to become an unrepentant capitalist, I thought he was going to be a physicist, since he was so good at it and he used to solve physics problems as a way of entertaining himself when he is bored (now, he reads macro economics book when he is bored). </p>
<p>I was secretly in love with Carl Sagan, so I was pretty darn pleased with a prospect of a physicist as a son. It’s just that to be a physicist, you would need a Ph.D. from top grad school, to which he can be accepted without elite private school education as long as he is in a good public school where he can work with good faculties to do a lot of undergrad research.</p>
<p>It’s just that Wall Street is very elitist, and they mostly recruit from elite private universities. </p>
<p>So, if he wanted to become a physicist, the public U full ride option would be a viable one. Even so, I would prefer U Chicago.</p>