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dadx3 · 08-23-2006, 12:01 AM

Carleton in particular is quite strong in placing students in good grad programs, and its undergraduate science students have won a good number of awards. One advantage of the LACs is that for faculty research they must use undergrads to help them, while at most research universities those opportunities go almost exclusively to graduate students. And in the past 10 years or so many of the top LACs have really beefed up their science lab facilities. Your S may have an advantage over other undergrads in the Physics Dept. at U of MN because he is in the Honors College. Good luck to him. It sounds like he has all the tools to do extremely well.

08-23-2006, 12:01 AM	#132
dadx3 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC Metro Area Threads: 12 Posts: 431	Top LACs are good preparation for science grad school Carleton in particular is quite strong in placing students in good grad programs, and its undergraduate science students have won a good number of awards. One advantage of the LACs is that for faculty research they must use undergrads to help them, while at most research universities those opportunities go almost exclusively to graduate students. And in the past 10 years or so many of the top LACs have really beefed up their science lab facilities. Your S may have an advantage over other undergrads in the Physics Dept. at U of MN because he is in the Honors College. Good luck to him. It sounds like he has all the tools to do extremely well.