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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are people only posting LACs?[/quote]

Because for much of the country all LACs are hidden gems. They just are not well know to the general population. My public high school had zero applicants to these colleges, and almost no one had even heard of the small New England schools, let alone the more obscure ones in Minnesota or Iowa or Maine (which might as well have been on different planets). Where I came from almost everyone went to school in state, so not a lot of people looked at, talked about, or encouraged applications anywhere else, even to the top students. Most Americans still will go to a school they can easily get to by car; this was even more true of prior generations (those who are now the parents and grandparents helping kids navigate the process) because flying was a huge luxury. My first flight was to my study abroad program in college, which back then was also a hug luxury that very few kids were able to do (but for a scholarship, I wouldn't have either, and even then my parents had to take a loan to pay for the flights).

So most Americans have never heard of these small, expensive, private colleges. They hope to get their kids to the main campus of the state flagship. We are wealthier than our parents by 100-fold, and so now that our kids have more options, we are learning about a bunch of new schools that could not have been in my universe before. DH knew about some of them because he comes from a family of professors, but they certainly couldn't afford those schools either.[/quote]

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