For physics, Brandeis undergrads have infinite opps for research, and many of them end up at Harvard, Chicago, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Brown, Columbia and Princeton for graduate school. They even list where their kids go on the website somewhere, I believe. Boston is a more attractive city than Rochester or Cleveland. You cannot go wrong with Brandeis, although it does have a very Jewish orientation, and the Jewish students pretty much segregate themselves from the rest.
Case is a fine school. Less liberal artsy and heavy engineering. That is a culture issue. Went to high school not far from there. Classmates who went there ended up at top grad schools, Yale for Chemistry, Chicago for political science, Chicago for physics, and Yale for law school, for whatever that is worthy.