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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The instruction from professors is better at SLACs.

But academic education is not entirely based on instruction from professors.

Research universities have better instruction from TA's (graduate students with more availability than any SLAC professor can reasonably provide), better academic research opportunities, more rigorous courses, especially graduate-level courses that undergrads can take. 
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Ultimately SLACs are a plaything for the generationally wealthy. There's not much worth in it for the children of  upper middle class dual-income professionals. They are not geared towards careers, but rather graduate, law, and (some) medical schools[/b].[/quote]

1) Upper-middle class dual income professionals are generational wealthy are not mutually exclusive. Many doctors, lawyers, professors, etc., have benefited from generational wealth.
2) Graduate, law, and medical school ARE career-oriented. Unless by "career" you mean jobs that don't require graduate degrees.[/quote]

1) And? Unless the children have a trust fund set up by their grandparents/uncles/aunts, they are not generationally wealthy. If the parents are paying for school out of pocket and through college savings plans, they are not generationally wealthy.
2) You have to be purposefully obtuse to not understand the distinction between colleges geared towards getting students employed right out of college (in engineering, nursing, business, counseling, etc.) and SLACs.[/quote]

You don't seem to understand what generational wealth, or even what a trust fund, is. Also what a SLAC does. Did you attend a university? Did you go to graduate school? Or is this your first time sending a child to college? Because from your statements, it's pretty clear that this world of wealth and liberal arts education seems new to you.[/quote]

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