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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Taught at William and Mary and faculty there get a lot more training in teaching, how to give good feedback on essays,how to help students improve their writing, etc.  This is something that you don't see at a Research University.

My kids are all at SLACS and they have opportunities like the chance to attend a job talk and give input into department hiring decisions.  At a research university, these activities are for grad students, not undergrad students.  
THere are more undergraduate research opportunities, and funding for undergrad research usually.  MacAlester has some huge percent of students getting NSF grants for grad school because so many of them co-author with faculty.  Very unusual for undergraduates. We toured one college where they had a boat that natural resource majors used to gather samples, etc.  Not sure you would see this for undergrads elsewhere.  
In my opinion, you get better letters of recommendation from faculty at SLACS because they know your student more.  
I go to academic conferences in my field and uniformly if a faculty member brings a student along and has them present their senior thesis, etc.  this is someone who teaches at a SLAC, not an R1.[/quote]
OK, I'll bite.  What is the "huge" percentage of MacAlester students getting NSF grants for grad school?  Less than 1%?[/quote]
The vast majority of the NSF grad fellowships are awarded to R1 students (86%) .  My DC just graduated from Stanford and 20% of the seniors in DC's major received NSF grad research fellowships.

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/08/nsf-graduate-fellowships-disproportionately-go-students-few-top-schools[/quote]

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