UCLA rejected too. So far rejection from UCSD, UCLA. Waitlisted at UC Davis...

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<p>If this is your ultimate goal, then you should be more concerned with getting into a good graduate school than a good undergraduate school. It won’t matter too much which college you go to for undergrad as long as you do really well there and can get into a good graduate program. So don’t stress, your undergraduate institution is not going to determine whether or not you do physics research in the future.</p>