Chance/advice for a scared junior

AustenNut
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 04:46:21 +0000

This list is categorized based on my very fallible sense of what might be your chances of acceptance. The non-bolded schools are from your original list. The bolded schools are schools that I have added, as they have strength in physics and/or math. (If I only found a strength listed in one or the other, I noted that, but just because I didn’t find a note of it somewhere doesn’t mean the other department isn’t strong. No comment beside it means I found both departments listed as strengths.) They also seem to provide a different experience than the Texas publics and are likely to provide merit aid, and in several instances, very generous merit aid.

Guaranteed

UT – Austin

Texas A&M

Extremely Likely (80-99%)

U. of Colorado – Boulder

New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology

Clarkson (NY)

Likely (60-79%)

U. of Massachusetts – Amherst

Purdue

Lawrence (WI) – noted for physics

Colorado School of Mines

U. of Utah – noted for math

Rose-Hulman (IN)

St. Olaf (MN) – noted for math

Toss-Up (40-59%)

Rensselaer Polytechnic (NY)

Reed (OR)

College of the Holy Cross (MA) – noted for math

Macalester (MN) – noted for math

Possible (20-39%)

Boston University

U. of Rochester (NY)

Davidson (NC)

Carleton (MN)

Grinnell (IA)

Case Western (OH) – noted for physics

Less Likely (20% or less)

MIT

Cal Tech

Princeton

Duke

Brown

U. of Chicago

Cornell

Johns Hopkins

Yale

Vanderbilt