<p>You may get CAP, indeed.
A safety may be UTD or UTSA - you may even get a little merit.
Look into Southwestern, Trinity TX, and Austin, plus TCU perhaps.</p>
<p>What is your budget? (if you don’t know, run the Net Price Calculators on some of the above colleges and bring the results to your parents).</p>
<p>Now, if you’re willing to go outside Texas, there are many possible choices - those schools represent matches and reaches since UTD and UTSA would be your safeties.
For Physics, Lawrence in Wisconsin (excellent for physics, research program for undergrads in the sciences!)
For Economics or Political Science, American University, Occidental
For CS, UMN-Morris, St Olaf, South Dakota School or Mines, New Mexico School of Mines, SUNY Binghamton
For science and economics: Dickinson, Connecticut College, Goucher, Hendrix, Rhodes, Centre
If you can get to 1330 CR+M, you’d automatically get into College of Engineering + Honors College + Honors Dorms + Full Tuition + $2,500 stipend at University of Alabama (a very sweet deal.)</p>