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[quote=Anonymous]PP. also, percent math and science isn’t that important. Yes, you want a decent number.  But the quality is a lot more important than quantity.  A small excellent department with top professors and great research and internship opportunities is much better than a department twice the size doing crap.  LACs are about matching your kid to opportunities that are good for your kid.  Numbers don’t tell you that. Outcomes do. And LACs track them.

When I look at LaCs with my kid, they sit in classes with the actual professor that closely aligns with his interest.  He can get a good sense about quality of teaching and quality of the department (the other kids).    And I literally ask the admissions office while my kid is interviewing if I can get the data on where all of their biology majors from the last 5 years are.  That tells me what I need to know. Does it line up with where my kid wants to be.

Obviously, you also tour the science facility.  Oberlin is excellent and not on your list.  And these schools encourage your kid to contact a professor as part of the application process and talk to them about their interests and what they could do.

It’s much less subjective and numbers driven than your chart. But your numbers don’t really mean much in the % of STEM categories.  A good fit is very personal. You can’t even really rank best biology departments at LACs.  It depends what your kid wants to do with the degree. [/quote]

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