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[quote=Anonymous]This is going to sound weird, but what your kid wants is a school like Iowa State. Engineering is huge, and almost all of the STEM kids are in engineering. The physics department has like 25 kids per year. Once you get beyond the physics 101 classes with all of the engineering kids, the classes will be tiny. But, and this is the important part here, Ames/ISU is the host of AmesLab, which is a US DOE research laboratory. So, there are a lot of physics profs working on various projects there. It's really easy for a bright physics undergraduate to get research assistantship positions and work side by side with professors and grad students. I imagine the same would be true for any physics department at a huge engineering school that also has significant government lab facilities. That might be something to consider for your kid. [/quote]
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