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[quote=Anonymous]I’m encouraging my kids to look at SLACs. If I’m going to pay 80k/year seems to me preferable to pay for the focus on undergraduate teaching, better access to faculty and a situation that really requires more student interaction. There are exceptions - some majors are more well suited for larger universities - but I like the idea of the SLAC approach, I went to a mid-size Ivy and I’m not pushing my kids to consider it. There are other reasons, but one is that classes were still on the larger side and it’s very easy to classes - and even really succeed - without interacting much with faculty at all, and, while there were exceptions, most faculty weren’t all that interested in undergrads. I was in an honors program in my major and the professor for our honors seminar was clearly just fulfilling an obligation. I can recall him reading his mail while I met with him to discuss my honors thesis.

Obviously, if financial aid and Merit aid enter the picture I can well understand why people opt for larger universities, just saying all else being equal I’m inclined to prefer the SLACs.[/quote]

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