Good Schools for both Engineering and Physics

<p>OK, so from a young age (13ish) I was pretty confident that I was going to double major in some form of engineering and either physics or math. I am really good at both math and physics. Although my schools offers BC Calc in 12th grade, I took a precalc course at Stony Brook over the summer and took BC in 11th grade and got a 5 on the exam. I am currently taking MAT 307 (Multivariable Calc/Linear Algebra) and am planning on taking MAT 308 (Diff EQs/Linear Algebra) next semester. I took Physics B in 11th grade and am taking Physics C now, and I was the only one in my entire school to get a 5 on the B exam (really bad teacher). I would really like to be able to double major in an engineering (preferably either nuclear, aerospace, or mechanical) and physics, so could anyone please suggests some schools that I should apply to? I have a 3.98 unweighted GPA and a 33 ACT Composite (35 Math) and I am retaking the ACT this weekend. I am early applying to Caltech (reach, obviously) and U Michigan. I need schools for regular decision.</p>

<p>Stony Brook?</p>

<p>What kind of cost constraints are you looking at? Have you checked the net price calculators at the schools you are interested in?</p>

<p>How much will your parents pay? </p>

<p>Have you had them run the NPC’s on various schools’ websites? Have them run the one on UMich’s website to get an idea of what they’d be expected to pay.</p>

<p>I get that you want strong physics, engineering and math, but what else do you want in a school? Big? Small? Do you want opportunities to do research working directly with a professor or are you happy to be be working for a grad student? CalTech is a very different school than UMich. (size, culture, etc.) so that doesn’t tell me much of what you are looking for other than the pure academic offerings. </p>

<p>If you’re looking for a large university how about the following:
Berkeley</p>

<p>Medium
MIT</p>

<p>If you’re looking a bit smaller, but still a university how about:
Stanford
University of Chicago
Princeton</p>

<p>If you want a to go to a college with excellent engineering, math and physics then you should look at:
Harvey Mudd
Rose-Hulman</p>

<p>If you are willing to only do engineering
Franklin Olin (Engineering only)</p>

<p>I assume that you are a New York State resident, so you should consider Stony Brook, Binghamton, and Buffalo. All have good engineering programs and physics programs.</p>

<p>For a more selective option look at Cornell, which is very strong in both physics and engineering. They even have a Engineering Physics major within the College of Engineering.</p>

<p>If you need financial aid, I would take most out-of-state flagship universities off the table. Both Michigan and Berkeley have great engineering programs, but out-of-state tuition is almost as large as tuition at a top private university and you are unlikely to get any aid from them.</p>