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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is pretty neurotic and a high scorer on exams but simply lacks extracurriculars. She aspires to be a physicist and in her free time, she’s president of the Quantum physics and robotics team. I’m concerned that without going to a top 20 university, she won’t be able to ever achieve her dream. Looking through the assistant professor page at Princeton, every one of them has a degree from MIT, Stanford, Tsinghua, and IIT, so what chance does she have getting into the professsion?[/quote]

So many questions:

What school has a Quantum physics and robotics team? Sounds weird.
Why don't you look at the full professors, not the assistant professors?
Stony Brook is very good and getting better in the sciences, particularly physics. State school but not huge. Though many of them get cherry picked to Wall Street
Lots of random large state schools are great at scientific research. Iowa State, Illinois, Colorado.

It seems like your child got her neurosis from you.[/quote]
Assistant professors are recent talent. Tenured professors are at least 50-60 years old, many endowed chairs are decades past social security.

Also the physics to Wall Street pipeline is extremely overstated and a very small sliver of physicists. [/quote]

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