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50936
Jul1-08, 11:31 PM
Which colleges are well known for having good engineering, physics programs?
I'm going to be a senior in high school and I really love physics but I don't think I can get into the top notch universities like Stanford, Caltech, etc. My SAT scores aren't too good (reasoning: 1970, mathII: 700, physics: 680, I'll be taking these again) and I have a GPA of about 3.4.

Can anybody tell me about what range of universities I would be able to get into with this record?

btw, I'll be an international student

PS I'm hoping to go to a college in US or Canada

Quincy
Jul2-08, 11:06 AM
Some great options would be: U of Maryland-College Park, U of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Penn State-University Park, and Purdue University.

dsb5092
Jul2-08, 02:50 PM
I can vouch for University Park. They have a big Physics department and are very big on Research. They also have a separate college just for engineering including almost every engineering discipline.

Monocles
Jul3-08, 05:42 AM
I don't know much about other colleges so I can't recommend very many, but look at Case Western Reserve University and Georgia Tech.