<p>Yes, I had thought that as well. On the other hand, it also means that they can’t offer as many advanced classes as some of these others places can (Reed, for example, had 24 physics majors graduate last year out of a class of ~350, and ranks up there with Caltech, Harvey Mudd, etc in terms of PhD productivity).</p>
<p>In any case, I’m going to drive up there at some point next week and meet with math/physics dept people. Hopefully that will help me somewhat. I think I prefer the other schools slightly, but $120,000+ is hard to pass up.</p>