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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is an Anthropology major at Wesleyan (along with a second humanities major) and is having a great experience. I think it’s particularly strong for cultural anthropology (my kid’s area of interest). Professors have been great, classes are small and engaging (as I assume would be the case at any SLAC).

[b]Also, don’t misunderstand SLACs—they are also very strong in sciences and math, which are part of the liberal arts. Wes, for example, is about to open a big new science building, and many of my kid’s friends are hard sciences majors (sometimes with a humanities double major). [/b]

Wes is a little bigger than most of its peers (3000 undergrads with a few hundred grad students) and is in a good-sized town, so it feels lively and diverse; it has a wide range of students and is welcoming to all. And it doesn’t feel terribly clique-y; my artsy kid is dating an athlete.

My kid also liked Vassar; I think there are a lot of cultural similarities. I don’t know anything about Colby.[/quote]
Why did you feel a need to bring this up?[/quote]

Because OP said,

[quote]She's really interested in schools that emphasize the humanities over the latest STEM craze[/quote]

SLACs aren’t just humanities, and if OP is looking at these schools thinking they emphasize/prioritize humanities over STEM areas, they will be disappointed.[/quote]

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