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<p>There’s more to it than numbers, even if you don’t want to think so. He should keep them if they really represent what he wants.</p>
<p>moondragonx: I think it’s a mistake not to visit everything within reach. It’s not just the food and the dorms you get to see, but the academic atmosphere as well. Do you want to be in hugemongous intro courses, or small class sizes? How accessible is the library? What are the laboratories like? There are so many things to take in, and you have everything on your list from large to small. </p>
<p>Might want to add University of Rochester, which DOES claim to meet 100% of need, and has a large physics group. BTW Medical Physics is the hot thing in physics these days.</p>