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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the obsessed anti/SLAC posters so obsessed?  It’s really sad.  If you think they are inferior, why are you threatened by them?  And why not be happy that those students aren’t taking up spots in the schools you covet?[/quote]

I've always thought that the dichotomy some posters set up between universities and LACs reflects a lack of critical thinking skills and, therefore, intelligence. While some college applicants do have a preference for bigger or smaller schools, most of my friends and classmates, like me, were much more interested in the perceived rigor of the schools to which we applied than in the size of their respective student bodies. Those who applied to Stanford and Yale also applied to Williams and Swarthmore, for example (and for the record sometimes got accepted to the universities but not to the LACs or chose to attend the LACs over the universities: I had quite a few classmates who chose our LAC over academically comparable universities). No one chose to attend our in-state public university over a more rigorous LAC just because the former was a university.[/quote]

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