<p>That sounds like a great opportunity. But I would be careful before knocking the other schools given the astoundingly high rates at which their graduates are placed into the top post-graduate programs like the NSF Fellowships, leading graduate schools, laboratories and research firms. If you look at that data, ND does pretty well but it doesn’t place as many into the top fellowships/programs as the HYPMC schools. Actually it has fewer than U of Arizona’s undergrad prog.</p>
<p>And yes, there are excellent LACs - the top few for undergraduate science, namely Harvey Mudd, Williams, Pomona, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and in particular, Swarthmore each produce just about as many NSF/NIH fellows, etc., if not more, per capita as the HYPMC caliber schools.</p>
<p>All my post above was for was to point out the UA is considered to be a top university.</p>