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[quote=Anonymous]I am faculty and I sent my kids to small liberal arts colleges where I know that the faculty actually wants to teach students and even use undergraduates as research assistants.

It's funny that when you talk to other faculty at conferences and such and they mention that their kids are in college, you generally don't hear them bragging about Ivy League schools.  Rather, they have kids at places like Macalester and yes, even Middlebury.

Here's an interesting statistic.  Macalester had the largest percentage of its students get NSF grants to go on for graduate study.  This is because they have so many science majors who publish with faculty as undergraduates.

Sewanee - University of the South -- has one of the highest rates of students getting Rhodes Scholarships of any college.

Here's a really interesting list:
https://topproducing.fulbrightonline.org/top-producing-institutions-by-year

It's which schools have the most students get Fulbrights every year.  Notice that they are all SLACS.  These are the places where the faculty know the students well enough to write them great recommendation letters and where the students get great career advice, etc.

My neighbor recently described how her son had trouble with a math course at Virginia Tech and how he had to take a bus across campus for several miles to get to a math tutoring center where he knew no one and had no connection with the professor.  I'm not paying for that!

Somewhere online there's a great series of videos about CS50 at Harvard, the intro computer science class.  It's supposed to show how exciting and fun it is to take that class, but what always strikes me are the herds of students, the armies of TA's and the sense of chaos.  Why have that when for the same price you can have a relationship with your instructor?[/quote]

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