That is also not a good plan. Most of those scholarships are very small $$ amts and are not renewable. How will you pay for your soph, jr, and sr yrs? The best scholarships are awarded by the universities themselves. Follow the links in post #18. That is a place to start.
Look. I know what it is like to want to attend a school that is out of reach. I have 8 kids. #5 is a high school jr right now. They don’t get to attend dream schools. They have to attend affordable schools. It has not hampered my kids at all. My older kids have great careers. My sophomore at Bama loves every minute of it. The dept is incredibly supportive.
But without a shadow of a doubt, far better to attend an affordable school than stress about how you are going to pay for every semester and then drown in debt at graduation. (And you can’t do much with a BS in physics. You are going to have to attend grad school. That means even that much longer w/no real income.)