<p>I'm a student with a i hope, decent chance of going to caltech. What alternate schools do you suggest? i'm into physics and astronomy.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd?</p>
<p>MIT? lol</p>
<p>Stanford, Chicago.</p>
<p>what they said. (psst.. especially harvey mudd, it's good!)</p>
<p>MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley and Stanford</p>
<p>carnegie mellon, cornell, rice, berkeley, michigan</p>
<p>RPI, URochester, WPI.</p>
<ul>
<li>yale, uiuc, jhu, ucla, ucsd, uta</li>
</ul>
<p>Case Western's physics program is a hidden gem I would suggest looking into it.</p>
<p>RPI or Rochester Institute of Technology? (A long way from California!)</p>
<p>Yay Case Western physics! :)
CMU's good but they don't do astronomy, don't know if that matters to you...</p>
<p>carnegie mellon seems to be a safety for MIT / Caltech applicants</p>