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Thank you for your post.  I said 'excellent' because I did not want to focus on "best".  Perhaps 'decent' would have been a better description.  I am not really looking for a liberal arts school, more of a science and math (not really engineering) school that is small and east of the Mississippi.  With the exception of Rose Hulman, I haven't been able to find one.  The student in question is math and science oriented and fairly exceptionally so, however the student would have to have a waiver for any foreign language as he has a language based LD.  The LD makes English and history classes time consuming when he would rather be in a math and science class.   So, he would like to limit those.  The student is introverted and a smaller campus and student life is more appealing.  The student has been leaning more towards physics lately, as a result, that is a higher concern. At this point, he is planning on getting a PhD regardless.

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This is a fun quest (as a PhD physicist who did undergrad at a non-selective LAC...). Here are a few to consider:

Bucknell University  
Case Western Reserve University 
Clarkson University (Love this school! Take a coat.)
Drew University
Drexel University  
Mary Washington College (This school is cranking out more physicists than I ever would have guessed!)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

I found these by looking at data related to where recent physics PhDs (2010-2012) did their undergrad and informally applying some of your filters. All of these schools produced 5 or more students that when onto get physics PhDs, which is a pretty good indicator that the school is supporting physics as its own discipline, and not just as a requirement for engineers. [/quote]

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