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Professors are great, accessible, and hold high expectations for their students. Though “good” colleges may have great professors, they may be less accessible due to class size and be unable to hold students to the highest academic standards. The result is that the syllabus covers less material, less complex material, and the assignments are less complex and graded to lower expectations. All this impacts the quality of the learning, especially in a liberal arts program.

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New Poster. OP - thank you for starting this thread! It's a good discussion to have.

But I must quibble with your takeaway above. The one thing I noticed from this conversation, some posters are comparing a T20 SLAC to a "good" state school. Those are not apt comparisons.

Can we compare T20 SLACs to "good" SLACS (the CTCL school, St. Mary's College of Maryland type of schools, etc.)

And then let's compare top state schools (Michigan, Berkeley, UVA) to "good" state schools (Penn St, Pitt, Ohio State, Towson, VA Tech, etc.)

It doesn't help to compare a top SLAC to  a good state school.[/quote]

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