<p>Hey everyone I'm looking for colleges that are good in physics. I want to go into theoretical physics and then move into grad school. Here is a brief summary of my stats. What would be some good safe schools reaches and matches. By the way I have already applied to Caltech under early action.</p>
<p>SAT-1550 (800 Math 750 Verbal)
GPA-4.41 ranked 6th in a class of approximately 400
3 year varsity cross country and track runner
AP Chem-5 AP Econ-5 AP US-5 AP Physics C-4(entirely self-studied) AP Bio-4
I'm also taking 15 credit hours at a local university this year. I'm taking Organic Chem, Calculus 2 and 3, Physics 3, International Economics, and Statistics</p>
<p>Have you checked into rice? I've heard it has a great physics department and it would be a match school for you. They also have division 1 athletics, if you are interested. Small enough so that it's easy to get involved in reasearch.</p>
<p>Reed, University of Chicago, and Cornell. They are not safeties for anyone but you would have a good shot at all.</p>
<p>If you're a California resident and are interested in any of the UCs, UC Santa Barbara would be a safety for your stats, I'd think, and they have a really outstanding physics department. UC Santa Cruz would be another safety, more in the astronomy/astrophysics area. UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD, of course not safeties for anyone, but you'd have a good shot.</p>