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Elwin.Martin
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I have been around here long enough to know that there are many places you can get your undergraduate degree, but I would like some suggestions as to where I should be looking. I am looking for a program with strong, modern research and the possibility of taking graduate courses.
Back story, there is a tl;dr
I have had some personal business come up recently (today) which may necessitate me moving (and hence transferring) to somewhere within an hour or two of Boston, but I am not really sure where I should be applying. I did a cursory search or two using the collegeboard.com system for schools with degrees in mathematics-general OR physics OR mathematical physics OR mathematics and statistics, to try to be a little bit on the safe-side which were within 100 miles of Boston.
The big names were there, of course, like Harvard and MIT and Brown...but I am really unfamiliar with most of the other schools in the area. I know that BU and Boston College (BC) exist, but I am not sure what else I should be looking at. I think Brown would be a stretch for me (I've already been rejected from MIT once...ouch...and that was not fun), BU looks like it would be okay...BC I don't really know...anyways, some other schools that came up were: Amherst, Tufts, Brandeis, Worcester, Wellesley.
tl;dr
So my real question is this:
Where should I be looking at first for a physics department within an hour or two's worth of driving from Boston?
I know this isn't the *best* way to be doing these kind of things, but my present method is to check the type of research being done and if my area of research is present, check the h-index's and recent publishing history of the faculty. I know h-index isn't exactly the best way to be checking their output, but a lot of these places want an application by March 1 and I need to figure out what I'm doing soon. If I can narrow it down, I'll be able to really investigate the quality of what their doing, but presently this the fastest way to do things :|
Thank you for any help in sorting through schools,
E_Martin
If it helps I'm interested in HEP primarily, Cosmology and CM are tied for my secondary interests. I have a 3.8 ( ) and I'm taking QFT II and GR this semester, but I'm not ready to graduate by this May for several reasons.
Edit****
Expand out to about 3.5 hours of driving =|
Back story, there is a tl;dr
I have had some personal business come up recently (today) which may necessitate me moving (and hence transferring) to somewhere within an hour or two of Boston, but I am not really sure where I should be applying. I did a cursory search or two using the collegeboard.com system for schools with degrees in mathematics-general OR physics OR mathematical physics OR mathematics and statistics, to try to be a little bit on the safe-side which were within 100 miles of Boston.
The big names were there, of course, like Harvard and MIT and Brown...but I am really unfamiliar with most of the other schools in the area. I know that BU and Boston College (BC) exist, but I am not sure what else I should be looking at. I think Brown would be a stretch for me (I've already been rejected from MIT once...ouch...and that was not fun), BU looks like it would be okay...BC I don't really know...anyways, some other schools that came up were: Amherst, Tufts, Brandeis, Worcester, Wellesley.
tl;dr
So my real question is this:
Where should I be looking at first for a physics department within an hour or two's worth of driving from Boston?
I know this isn't the *best* way to be doing these kind of things, but my present method is to check the type of research being done and if my area of research is present, check the h-index's and recent publishing history of the faculty. I know h-index isn't exactly the best way to be checking their output, but a lot of these places want an application by March 1 and I need to figure out what I'm doing soon. If I can narrow it down, I'll be able to really investigate the quality of what their doing, but presently this the fastest way to do things :|
Thank you for any help in sorting through schools,
E_Martin
If it helps I'm interested in HEP primarily, Cosmology and CM are tied for my secondary interests. I have a 3.8 ( ) and I'm taking QFT II and GR this semester, but I'm not ready to graduate by this May for several reasons.
Edit****
Expand out to about 3.5 hours of driving =|
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