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New poster. The counselor is off base. LACs and SLACs can range widely in their "fit" as others have noted. Have your daughter look first and foremost at which ones have the econ programs that most appeal to her (not all econ departments have the same emphases, not all will have the same opportunities to work with professors closely, etc.). Put the academic program first and investigate that in detail! Then she can look at things like athletics and fit. "Quirkiness," to be honest, really doesn't mean much. My own DD goes to a LAC where she has friends who I guess could be called quirky but she also knows very athletic students, STEM students, lots of performing arts students, some (admittedly, a few) quite conservative kids, etc.

I would forget "quirkiness" and focus maybe (after academic programs of course) on whether a relatively conservative kid is going to be comfortable, be open to others unlike her and find them open to her too, and whether there are extracurricular activities she would find truly engaging.

She is absolutely right that LACS/SLACs have smaller classes and that is very, very positive. Our DD has loved that about her LAC--from freshman year she was in 20-person seminars (and smaller) while friends at big state universities were going to 150-person lectures with professors who had no idea who the students were individually. In LACs there also can be more opportunities, much earlier, to work on smaller projects with other students and with professors (and even with alumni--my DD is already getting a lot of contact with alums through projects DD is doing with professors, and those projects that give her good experience dealing with the world outside the college and the profs!).

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