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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pizza delivery? Chinese delivery? Those count for something...[/quote]
Gosh, encourage the kids to at least take a walk into “town”: they will live in their car the rest of their lives.[/quote]

Something tells me there isn’t actually a town to walk to for some of these colleges.

My campus was pretty self contained. It wasn’t really walking distance to anything, despite being just outside a city. We had to drive to anything off campus. We definitely did order take out from time to time, though, so I think being close enough for pizza and Chinese food is worth thinking about (as a pp noted)[/quote]
So what was your school? Some mid-size unis and SLACs alike can be wholly isolated from their communities (rural or urban). I mean, most college kids in the United States have grown up in communities with nothing in walking distance. If you can’t take a walk off campus to get a darned slice of pizza or a coffee while in college, when can you? The vast majority (90% or more?) of residential colleges are not isolated, auto-dependent silos — so avoid those that are.
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The bottom line of this thread is that none of these largely trivial considerations should disqualify a school, but since schools are a heck of a lot more fungible than the rankings-worshipers would suggest, there's not a lot of harm in creating your pool with these small things in mind and deciding between similar quality schools on the small stuff.

And, of course, limiting this to LACs is just an anti-LAC troll post.  There are plenty of non-LACs in locations that people don't like and without the neighboring amenities that people have convinced themselves are important. [/quote]

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