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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I can see, it does seem there's an issue for lac grads to get into good grad programs. From Pomona, where 2 recent Apker award winners have come from: [quote]
Independent of the job market, if you want to consider graduate school you have to ask yourself three questions:
-Do I have the grades to get into a reasonable graduate school?
-What subfield of physics am I interested in, and what does this tell me about grad schools I should look at?
-Do I have the motivation to go to and stay in graduate school?
We can help you with the first two questions, but the third you have to answer for yourself. Coming from a small college with no Nobel laureates to write you letters of recommendation means that to get into the very top programs you will need both very good grades and a very good score on the GRE subject test. The “very top” programs are places like UC Berkeley, Stanford, CalTech, and Princeton. If your physics GPA isn’t a steady string of A’s and A-‘s, though, that doesn’t mean that you should start thinking about taking the LSAT. Many good graduate programs exist at schools other than the top ten; the “very top” programs have that ranking partly because they have excellent programs in essentially all subfields of physics. Especially if you have a pretty good idea of the subfield you might want to enter, you should look around at less well-known schools for strong programs in your particular area.[/quote]
If a top LAC is explaining that they're at a disadvantage, no reason to not believe them. It is an issue that your professors aren't well known researchers/advancing the field of physics.
Source: [url]https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/physics-and-astronomy/physics-academics/plan-senior-year[/url][/quote] the only LACs I would consider top for physics are Reed, Harvey Mudd, Williams, Amherst (if you leverage the 5cc to take graduate courses at Amherst)[/quote]

Wesleyan is likely stronger than every school that you listed for Physics.[/quote]

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