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Also, if your physics background is at the JEE Advanced level, you probably won't need a basic physics book like Serway or Giancoli

Purcell/Griffiths for EM Morin for Classical Mechanics Shankar or Zweibach for QM Kittel for Thermal Physics Riley Hobson Bence for math methods David Tong's notes are also an excellent resource: https://davidtong.org/teaching/

Can you take physical chemistry? That should cover some basic thermodynamics and quantum physics. Can you take physics courses as an independent study or guided reading with a professor?

In the US, the most competitive universities practice holistic admissions, so a score beyond the 99th percentile doesn't benefit you much vs a score around the 99th percentile. What differentiates the large number of students within the 99th percentile is their extracurricular activities.

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Kevin Zhou seems to agree with you that #1 is nit picking.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24871 Discussion on Reddit:

I'm pretty sure the AoPS forums have a bigger collection of problems

Shouldn't peer review be catching these fraudulent citations? If it isn't, what does that suggest about the feasibility of the current peer-review based scientific model?

You made an awesome choice! Enjoy the consortium's flexibility.

UCSB CCS students have pretty good access to research opportunities as well - there are only a few dozen CCS physics students at UCSB. I would personally choose UCSB.

What do the finances look like? How much does each option cost? Which larger projects and subfields would UCSB give you access to that Harvey Mudd wouldn't?

Try reading these posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/IPMATtards/wiki

Chemistry: A Self-Teaching Guide (this is more on the high school level) https://www.chemistry.msu.edu/clue/general-chemistry.aspx - the textbook is very text-heavy and only around 200 pages