best college for physics major

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<p>can anyone tell me which colleges offer best physics undergrad programs?
thanks</p>

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<p>Can you give us an idea of your stats (GPA and SAT scores)? No sense listing schools that are either unrealistic reaches or extreme safeties.</p>

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<p>Percentage - 90 on a 100 scale (Indian schools don’t award GPA)
Rank - 1/270
SAT I - 800M/800V
SAT II - 800IIc/800Phy/720Writ
TOEFL - 300(CBT)</p>

<p>I’ve already applied ED to Williams but I’ll probably be deferred, so…</p>

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<p>wow ur stats are amazing~!
u’ll get into just about anywhere</p>

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<p>hey Int’l…I don’t know about getting in anywhere - I ask for a full ride and ECs aren’t great…</p>

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<p>i think u can shoot for some top state schools for a full ride.
try virginia, berkeley, michigan, uiuc, ucla, unc, wisconsin, etc.
in my country, a girl who got a 1560 on the sat got accepted to berkeley for a full ride… as an int’l student. she got 5s on all her eleven ap courses though…
she went to harvard despite the berkeley full ride…</p>

<p>just try~ u’ll get in somewhere good even if your ec’s aren’t great</p>

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<p>A very good stats Gandalf, I think you’re eligible for the best physics school in States:

  1. Caltech
  2. MIT
  3. Harvard
  4. Princeton
  5. Berkeley
  6. Stanford
  7. Cornell</p>

<p>May be you can get some fin aid too :)</p>

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<p>RTKysg has given you a great list. However, I noticed that you applied ED to Williams. If you want to consider other liberal arts schools with great physics programs you might take a look at Carleton, Reed, Swarthmore, HArvey Mudd, Whitman.</p>

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<p>Stanford has the most nobel prize winners in its physics dept, along with having the 2 mile long linear accelerator. Cal Tech is also top notch. But Stanford is probobly a better college experience.</p>

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<p>The University of Chicago definitely has one of the best physics programs in the country; the department has had 24 (I think) Nobel prize winners. Chicago physicists were the first to measure the speed of light, split the atom, etc.</p>

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<p>How could I forget to count in Chicago in my list, shame on me</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.pa.msu.edu/~sciencet/ask_st/102892.html[/url]”>http://www.pa.msu.edu/~sciencet/ask_st/102892.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>“The first measurement was made by the Danish astronomer Roemer in 1676.” </p>

<p>I’m just posting this in the interest of historical accuracy, as of course I agree that the U. of Chicago is a great physics school. I first read about the U. of Chicago and physics in second grade, when I read the exciting story of Enrico Fermi’s building of the world’s first nuclear reactor at the U. of Chicago campus. </p>

<p>But I remembered the story of the earliest measurement of the speed of light (which happened LONG before the U. of Chicago was even founded) from an article by Isaac Asimov that I read in high school.</p>