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Thanks, I think I have only borrowed about half of my federal limit.

Thank you! This is helpful data to help me plan.

I do not mean to say I would obtain a position upon arrival. But after a year of I think I could secure a position. You seem to have ignored the rest of that message as well as the subsequent messages in my response. I have savings, I can work part time until (hopefully) squiring a TA or RA...

As far as my plan. I think that if I am not finding significant success by the end of my first year (~4.0 GPA and loving what i’m doing) then I would probably pull back at that point.

I should add that my academic performance in my first degree was due to a bad work ethic which I have since significantly developed in the past 4 years. That and being heavily distracted by “extra curricular” activities that I am no long distracted by. I am in a fortunate position to have found...

I have some savings. I have coding experience so I could probably pick up a part time IT job at the university or elsewhere. Hopefully I could pick up a TA or RA job at some point to pay for some of the cost. And if I were to finish in around 2 years the financial blow would not be too...

I realize that the title is about getting into a top tier school but what it really should’ve been is “what is realistic path to take to become an employable physicist in research or academia”.

And just to clarify. Are you suggesting that I apply to lower ranked PhD program? Or that I aim for a second bachelors even though there will not be much aid, if any. Or is there another path I am missing? Thank you for taking the time to answer my many questions. This conversation has given me...

Thank you for this information! I will check out these reports.

I do not mean to confuse you with lack of capitalization. And apologies that I may not be correctly inferring your tone. But I do feel that you may be attempting to discourage me from attempting to break into this field at all. Is there any reason for this? Do you think it is inadvisable to...

as i said before i was interested in trying to make a career out of physics. and it seems these positions are quite competitive. so it doesn’t have to be at a top tier university per-say. but it certainly improves your odds at getting a research or professor position.

yes i actually was accepted here previously but chose a different university.

i guess i would just go back to software. hopefully i could secure an RA or TA position within a year to help pay for subsequent years of tuition. and penn state and university of pittsburgh seem to allow second bachelors with a top 30 physics program.

I think I want to try something different. I have always been interested in physics, but honestly I just was not as focused as I should have been in undergrad. I liked learning about theory, math, and concepts. I am just fascinated by physics, and want to see if I could make a career out of it...

I realized I just asked this to vandium. but from the sounds of your answer, do you think a second bachelors would be a better path?