<p>Hello fellow CCers, I had a quick inquiry for you all. What sort of school should one be looking at if they have the following stats, average ECs, and want to study physics.
ACT: 31 (Retaking)
PSAT (Yet to take SAT): 209 (76 Math, 63 Writing, 70 Reading)
GPA: 3.75 unweighted, 5.1806 weighted
Rank: 1/546
Caucasian Male</p>
<p>Price limit, state of residency, and financial aid situation?</p>
<p>Anything I can afford (with the help of financial aid or whatever), Florida, about $100,000 salary (Single-Parent)</p>
<p>Depends how you do on your ACT retake. I’d also try the SAT. </p>
<p>Uflorida has pretty good physics, and you’d definitely get in. </p>
<p>UCLA, Umichigan, Cornell, USC, Boston College, Purdue, Vandy, Rice, UCSD</p>
<p>Some of those may be reaches, but I think you’d have a shot at them.</p>
<p>But how much is the parent willing to contribute to the college costs? This is a conversation that needs to happen before the application list is made. Then you can try net price calculators on college web sites to see what can be affordable on need-based aid.</p>
<p>Florida state is noted for its nuclear physics graduate program.</p>
<p>University of Florida and University of Miami. UF is cheap and well-known.</p>