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[quote=Anonymous]If the honors program is significantly cheaper, definitely that, unless you want to go into something where name brand matters like finance in which the few LACs who are finance feeders can help you land a job

But top LACs give great financial aid. If they're equal (or sometimes, the LAC can be cheaper!), it's worth noting they attract a stronger, more diverse group of students, professors who are fully engaged with undergrads, and have considerably more resources to fund research, opportunities, internships, and whatnot. I believe Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams, and Pomona spend well over 100,000 dollars on each student per year due to how resource heavy they are (they have endowments larger than most universities even absolutely). So even the full pay students are getting a hefty chunk waived.

Here are some average net prices from a government website (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/)

Pomona: $14908
Amherst: $18848
Davidson: $19981
Bowdoin: $19901
Vassar: $21858
Swarthmore: $21858
Middlebury: $23303
Williams: $23924

University of Virginia: $19430
UMD College Park: $15634
College of William and Mary: $18300
Virginia Tech; $20172[/quote]

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