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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all relative, but even at a small LAC with under 2,000 students there will still likely be hundreds more per grade than in high school. Perhaps if you went to a huge high school it’s different. My DC has 200 in his senior class and is headed to a LAC with just under 3,000 total. From what I hear, that size has you run into people you know and  people you have never seen everyday - good stuff.[/quote]

My kids had 600 in their hs class.  So most small lac have less students.

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Fewer students.  Mine has 85ish in her graduating class and chose a small (under 1500 total students LAC).  She values the small individual class sizes (unlike the big schools where one lecture could be several times her entire HS graduating class), the research opportunities not being all sucked up by grad students and the opportunity to interact more closely with professors.  She's a recruit, so expects that she'll find her people with the other athletes, but the smaller size actually allows more interaction and friendships with the "NARPs".  [/quote]

Each kid will have a size that works best for them.  For my kids it was in the 5-8K range for undergrad.  Still smaller class sizes, still opportunities for research, ability to interact with professors (my kid did research starting sophomore year and continued it for 2 summers and had excellent recommendations for getting into top grad schools).  Yet not so small that you see the same people everywhere all the time.  [/quote]

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