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LACs seem to be pretty well represented. Last year’s graduating PhD cohort at Caltech, for example, had students from Amherst, Barnard, Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Gettysburg, Harvey Mudd, Occidental, Reed, Swarthmore, Sweet Briar, U Redlands, Wellesley, and Wesleyan.</p>
<p>On the whole, I agree with mollie (even if she did forget geology :(). I’m a science major at a relatively small research university, and faculty outnumber majors as least four to one. There are many more research opportunities available than get taken.</p>