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[quote=Anonymous]For those who constantly ask why are SLAC's better, this post calls to mind one example.

At large state schools, classes are often large (especially freshmen intro classes). The professor (if she or he is the one even teaching) would not notice a missing student. Nor would they have the time to reach out to each of them.

Many of the small schools we visited talked about having systems in place to check on students who seem to have dropped off the radar screen (literally, they have a phone tree of administrators that professors can alert).

One Provost or maybe Dean of Students at Bowdoin told the story of knocking on the dorm room of a student who had started skipping classes. He was fine so she reminded him that it was a privilege to have that opportunity and he better start making better choices.

Since it is hard to predict how a kid will transition to the freedom of college, I was reassured to know that the schools we were looking at felt a responsibility to help manage the handoff. [/quote]

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