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[quote=Anonymous]OP, did you forget what LAC stands for? Liberal arts college.
A future computer scientist who wants to study neural networks should go to MIT or Stanford or Carnegie Mellon or else a large land grant school.

On the other hand, an undergraduate who wants to be a mathematician or a cosmologist needs personal time with teachers, a library, and a lot of creative ways to think abstractly that is as likely to come from a philosophy class as a particle accelerator. LACS don't offer vocational majors either. The point of an elite college is to develop a strong intellectual foundation.

If you took orgo, you'd know that it  is substantively the same everywhere but the learning experience and the opportunity to spark an interest is different in a small class. Personal connection matters to develop a passion for a discipline and the relationship to help get to the next level. As you noted, the big Ivies most advanced courses are pretty small, but the intro labs, computer science and economics classes can be as gigantic as any football powerhouse. None of the required pre-med classes are small at any of the Ivies.

As for recruiting, you don't count on a school's career services to get a job in the arts, publishing, journalism, politics, or with a start-up. The vast majority of hedge funds and PE firms don't do on-campus recruiting either. [/quote]

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