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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s not one answer. Sorry for stating the obvious. The big state U’s will have as many first rate students as selective liberal arts colleges, just spread out over a wider range of classes.

Intro classes are probably the weakest link. These can be balanced by small departments in some subjects, honors colleges, living-learning communities, and the departments that put a star researcher in 100 level lectures, etc.. Sometimes they’re not. There are invitations to dinner at professor’s houses, meeting seminars with visiting authors, outstanding arts performers brought in, just like at SLACs. It’s incredible though, some of the visiting performances that some of the small LACs can afford.

Feedback on writing is a reasonable question, and that’s variable too. Everything from one-on-one tutorials to seminars with writers in residence. It’s all there at the state Us, but each student is apt to have less access.

Science students at big state Us probably get less writing than at LACs; they often have a heavier load of required courses and take more per semester than LAC counter parts. What they learn is variable too. Some of the pre-health/ pharm students are highly grade focused at the expense of learning for understanding. Have seen this at top schools too.

What you get at big schools are a huge range of clubs, and a wider range of people. For some this is invigorating. For others it’s a lot of work to find what they need/want socially intellectually.

So much is dependent on the student’s personality, interests and goals.

Thanks. My chief concern is my kid would just cruise through and kind of hide, which is probably what I would do. It’s also probably what most of the kids do

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