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<p>No question. Grinnell is making the open curriculum work and still maintain impressive balance across divisions, at least on a macro level.</p>
<p>One of the surprises on this list, in part because it’s the only game in town, is Davidson. Davidson has a reputation as a very academic place and also a big pre-med feeder. I’m surprised by the small number of science majors. </p>
<p>I’m also surpised by Amherst, Yale, Pomona, and Bowdoin.</p>
<p>I know Williams has a “potential science PhD” tag in the admissions office. They target math and science majors as an explicit admissions priority with an eye on overall PhD production rates. I think most of these schools probably do that to some extent as declining numbers of math/science majors has been an issue in US higher ed for some time. Imbalances create all kinds of problems from overenrollment in Econ courses to unpleasantries like deciding if you can continue to justify a Physics department. These issues are mostly hypothetical at the big-endowment schools, but there are schools that have to be taking long hard looks at the per student cost of science departments.</p>