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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LACs are not backup schools for state schools and state schools are not backup schools for LACs. They are on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of colleges—students often have a preference towards one type.

LACs attract students looking for more intimate settings with smaller class sizes and more opportunities to get to know professors. 
LAC students are much more likely to be seeking a broader education and state school students may be more interested in specialization. Moreover, state school students are much more concerned about career focused education than LAC students (which is why state schools will have popular majors such as nursing, education, and engineering while LACs will have popular majors such as mathematics, english, economics, and biology.

They also tend to value smaller communities and are more comfortable somewhere where they see lots of familiar faces. This contrasts the large state school where you see tens of thousands of different people.

Overall, they can be great colleges for a student seeking a tight knit, intellectual atmosphere.

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+1 one of my kids only applied to huge public Us. The other only to small LACs. Both are happy with their schools.[/quote]

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