I guess I may be underestimating my research done on my campus because our advisers are always pushing REUs for the summer. A lot of people in our physics department have ended up at CalTech, MIT, and University of Chicago physics programs, so I just assumed that going to a "prestigious" school...
After years of diligence, my undergraduate program will be ending after this year. I have yet to decide on any graduate schools to apply to and don't really think it is worth applying to schools I am sure I won't be accepted to. My problems are as follows:
-My GPA is at a 3.23 entering my...