A few comments on this table.
These two awards are very hard to get and you have to have had research experience and mentorship during your undergrad years. So a high number of these awards shows that the school both has students with talent/interest in the hard sciences and also invests heavily in mentoring students in the hard sciences.
Most of the LACs at the top of this table are not surprising, but there are a few real surprises. Calvin College and Hope College in Michigan. They are on the big side, 3400-3800 students, but must have very strong science departments. Admit rate for both is ca 70%, so I’m guessing they also target a small percentage of students who are strong in the sciences. Then there are a bunch of schools you don’t hear mentioned too much but pull in many of these awards: Lafayette, Colorado College, Lewis and Clark, Kenyon, Barnard, Hamilton, Hendrix (you never hear that school mentioned on CC…). Scipps also stands out as a school that doesn’t produce too many students that go on to get PhDs in the hard sciences, but those that do have a much higher rate of doing so on a prestigious award.
I didn’t add the Fulbright into the total since the Fulbright is for students to study abroad, so the school might have many Goldwaters and NSF but few Fulbrights if few students want to study abroad. There are four schools that stand out as having an unusually high number of students who get Fulbrights to study the hard sciences abroad (1000 x Fulbrights/Size > 4): Pomona, Smith, Davidson and Occidental. Followed a second high group (1000 x Fulbrights/Size > 3): Swarthmore, Carleton, St. Olaf, Wellesley, Amherst, Bowdoin, Haverford and New College of FL.