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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students often have closer relationships with their professors.[/quote]

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Much easier to build relationships with a professor when there are only 50 kids or less in a class, not 500+. Much easier to do meaningful research as an undergrad at a small school.  In my experience, at the smaller schools the profs care more (on average) about the whole student they are teaching and will go above and beyond to help them---at a larger school it requires a lot more effort from the student to get to know a prof and many only care about their grads students and research team.

Most SLAC (and under 8K universities) require the students to live on campus at least 2 years, for many it's available for 4 years.  This makes housing a bit easier---no searching for sophomore year housing off campus in Sept when you have not yet been on campus for a month. Instead you typically pick your soph year housing sometime in the spring, when you have a group of friends and much better idea who you want to live with next year.

Academics:  much easier to get help in a class with only 30-50 students, in fact the prof likely teaches the class not a TA and the prof is able to get to know all students.

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