<p>Remember, find your safeties first.</p>
<p>Some of the usual safeties are community colleges (followed by transfer), but those are inappropriate for you since you have already taken all of the math that might be available at a community college. Given that you are so far ahead in math, it is unlikely that undergraduate only schools (“liberal arts colleges”) will be appropriate for you, since you are likely to want to take graduate level math courses as an undergraduate.</p>
<p>Big research universities with strong math and physics departments would be your best choices. Note that their usual disadvantage of huge impersonal classes is generally not applicable to upper division and graduate math courses that you would be taking (though if you need to take any lower division physics courses, those may be large unless small honors versions of the courses are offered).</p>
<p>Since you are in California, several UCs are obvious candidates. Because of holistic admissions processes, it is hard to have them be ironclad safeties (though the less selective ones can be counted as very likely), but pretty much all of them except for Merced are at least respectable in math and physics.</p>
<p>Minnesota and Stony Brook are also candidates as well, due to low out of state list prices. Iowa State is another such school that is respectable (though not as much as the other two) but also has a [formula</a> which you can calculate for admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/freshman/requirements.php]formula”>http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/freshman/requirements.php); if your formula score is high enough, you are in automatically.</p>
<p>Go to their web sites and show the net price calculators to your parents to make sure that they are ok with the costs.</p>
<p>Once you have your safeties lined up, you can then add other non-safety schools (though you will still want to show their net price calculators to their parents before applying to make sure that they find the costs acceptable – no point in applying if you cannot afford to attend).</p>