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I am currently a sophomore at a top 50 big state school who is interested in attending an REU this summer. I've heard getting into REUs is very very hard as a sophomore as they favor juniors. I am also a domestic white male. I've been working in a HEP lab at my home university since April 2011 and put in about 20 hours a week during the summer. I've gotten all A's in my physics and math classes except a B+ in physics 1 my first semester of college. I've taken calc 1-3, linear algebra, and DEQ1 and am wait listed for Complex variables this spring. I'm also taking Into to Thermodynamics and Techniques in Theoretical Physics this spring. I know C and C++ from working in the lab and python from a class I took this fall. I'm getting LOR from the professor I work under and a postdoc in the lab who I do all my work with.
With my kind of resume, do I have a realistic chance of landing an REU at a top 40 school? or should I try and look for some safeties? Here are the schools I have or will apply to.
Michigan (REU at CERN)
UCDavis
UCLA
Colorado
Michigan State
Duke
Columbia
Stony Brook
Rice
Texas A&M
Washington
With my kind of resume, do I have a realistic chance of landing an REU at a top 40 school? or should I try and look for some safeties? Here are the schools I have or will apply to.
Michigan (REU at CERN)
UCDavis
UCLA
Colorado
Michigan State
Duke
Columbia
Stony Brook
Rice
Texas A&M
Washington