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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What type of high school / prep school did your child attend ?

Most LACs resemble private boarding schools in most respects. LACs are somewhat like small towns--living in a tiny community where seemingly everyone knows your business.

Ours went to an elite prep boarding school and has shared that the idea of attending an LAC was of no interest as it would be too much like repeating boarding school.[/quote]
[b]He went to a very large public school, so that environment will be different for him[/b].[/quote]

Interesting switch.

LACs typically offer small classes and lots of intimacy among the LAC community of students & professors. Will experience a lack of privacy and a lack of opportunity to be anonymous when the urge hits. Can be difficult to deal with a romantic relationship break-up. Often there are social divides between athletes and NARPs (non-athlete regular person).

Positives are typically ease with which one can navigate both the campus and administrative matters.

Will see the same faces day after day. Many small schools have just one cafeteria which came be a serious negative.[/quote]
+1. This got old for me after a while and felt small, even though it really wasn't that small of a school compared to others. Thought about transferring but studied abroad all of junior year at a larger school and lived and worked off campus senior year.[/quote]

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