<Carl Sagan used to be based there. They still publish Icarus and have a reasonable faculty.

These days I might recommend Brown University, if you can stand a daily dose of Jim Head. (he's a good lad, but fixated on lava and water on Mars)



I just looked at both, I might have a better chance with Brown than with Cornell. Browns website says that they have no GPA cutoff. I might have to employ a method similar to what my brother did and go 'junior college -> university of Richnomd (or other good in state college) -> soemthing like UCLA -> Iveyleague . . .

The provost strongly recomended Radford for just a simple geology degree. I n fact as I remember there was a poster at LPSC for a conference Radford was playing a part in on geology.

If I wanted to go the physics route (which is a serious strong point for me) there is University of Virginia which I hear frequently it has an excellent astronomy department, I don't guess anyone here has heard a thing about their planetary science department? I didn't see anyone from there at LPSC. William Hartmann told me that was the route he took (degree in physics).

Caltech is always good, but pricey. There are plenty other good planetary Science depts.

yikes, well my parents are no stranger to expensive schools, but I don't think they are in the position anymore to support another one of us going to such an expensive school. Hence another reason I am giving first thought to in-state colleges. at least for the next three years.

-Justin Kelly