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[quote=Anonymous]I wish I hadn't listened to my parents. They had an unrealistic understanding of how competitive it was and my mother in particular was really fixated on the idea of SLACs being the pinnacle of the college experience. Because her own personality was to be highly academically driven and sit around in small wood-paneled classrooms musing about dense tomes with a professor, completely divorced from economic realities. I ended up pigeon-holed without even really knowing it, but they controlled the purse strings. The idea of a larger university was never really on the table and it was made clear to me that the likes of UMD was a last resort compared to the rarified air Williams, Amherst, etc. Particularly because my cousins had all gone to such schools.

I did fine, but it turned out that I could stay in my shell and under the radar just as well at a SLAC as at a larger school. So I didn't maximize the experience, it cost them 4x what it needed to, and I wonder now what I would have explored at a larger school where there was more available just based on scale. [/quote]

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