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For hot schools for physics, look into Hamilton and Pomona, which have graduated multiple students who have received recognition by the American Physical Society (APS) as Apker recipients/finalists (the highest award in the nation for undergraduate research in physics) in recent years. Additionally, a Hamilton professor was recognized recently by the APS for his contributions to the field of physics (in fundamental neutron physics) and his mentoring of students. [b]Williams, whose graduates have received more Apker Awards than those from any other school of its type[/b], should be considered as well. Haverford, Bowdoin, Wesleyan and Reed, which maintains a nuclear reactor on campus for research, also may be of interest. Tech-oriented Harvey Mudd will appeal strongly to some students. For merit scholarship recognition, consider Grinnell and Lawrence.
[/quote][/quote] I did my best to calculate an Apker Awardee rankng a couple of months ago (updating the info on Wikipedia with results from the past three years), and my result was that Williams and Mudd are tied for most awardees.

And delete "of its type" -- as if this is only comparing LACs. Willams and Mudd are tied for the most awardees, period -- for what that's worth. (It may be that these schools place special emphasis on getting their students to compete for this award. My kid was using this as one among many criteria of excellence.)[/quote]

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