<p>If you are looking for a school not as big as UF or UT yet is a research university strong in the sciences, I’d highly recommend Clemson as a likely to safe school. Clemson is a public school so it’s cheap, it’s rising in the rankings every year, it only has 13,000 undergrads compared to 30,000 at UF or UT so it’s a lot more personable than some large publics</p>