<p>I'm a high school senior planning to attend college in the Fall 2015 semester. I live in Arizona, right by ASU, but I'm wondering whether people think that ASU's Mathematics and Physics majors (I'm double-majoring in these subjects) are better or worse than U of A's. Which one has better programs? Or is one better for one major, and the other better for the other major? If so, I would lend preference to the one with a better math program. </p>
<p>Money is not an issue for either of these colleges, and I would be attending the Honors College or Barrett depending on which school I select.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I suppose I should give some details about my academic resume as well. My SAT score is a 2220 (720 Reading, 750 for Math/Writing), my ACT Composite is 35 (34 Reading, 35 Math/Writing, 36 Science), and my High School College Core GPA is 3.91 (unweighted). As of right now, I’ve only taken four AP Tests: Music Theory, Physics B, English Language and Composition, and US History. I got a 5 on all of these tests though. I’m taking 10 AP tests my senior year. The out-of-state schools I’m applying to are: MIT, Harvey Mudd, Stanford, Princeton, and Rice University.</p>
<p>So look, you seem to have your s#$% together and your reaches are great, but you know the odds of acceptance at MIT, Mudd, Stanford, Princeton are really low, most AZ HS only have one or two tippy top students who are likely the Vals are admitted to any one of these schools, so the odds unless you are one of those of being accepted is really low, Rice yes you will most likely be a match for, but its in texas so… So you issue is ASU or UofA and both your current majors are good at each school, there really if no difference in state between ASU/Fulton/Barrett and UofA/Honors, no employer nor really any grad schools will judge you on the better of the two schools, I think it really comes down to living in Tucson and living in Tempe. If you go UofA you’ll have housing costs all 4 years likely, if you do ASU you can live at home or likely very close for all 4 years. My feeling if you love home and can see yourself coming home most weekends, which if you go to ASU, you WILL come home most weekends even if only for a few hours or overnight, you will not really become part of ASU and campus culture, if you do want to really immerse yourself in a campus culture/greek life/athletics consider going UofA. </p>
<p>You will likely have 30 or more credits from either instate school, so you can likely graduate in 7 semesters, but consider where you want to be for the next 4 years, the Physics/Math difference between the 2 schools is not worth determining where you live for the next 4 years, consider where you want to LIVE if you are going to be instate.</p>