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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is interested in SLACs. I grew up in New York and always envisioned the NESCAC schools when I thought about liberal arts colleges. We now live in the midwest, and I'm wondering if there's any need to do a New England tour, or if the midwestern SLACs have everything she'll need- she's interested so far in St. Olaf, Grinnell, Dickinson, Denison. Merit aid will also have to be part of the equation - we don't need a ton, but a place like Grinnell that offers automatic merit aid if you go ED would make it a lot easier for us. Certainly we would prefer driving distance over flying distance. [/quote]

For a student who plans to major in the humanities or the social sciences, maybe Wash. U. and some other private schools could be seen as liberal arts college equivalents.

The professors probably face some publish-or-perish pressure, but the number of humanities and social sciences students and the ratio of those students to faculty might not be that different than at a SLAC.

I’m talking about Wash. U. because that’s what I know, but I suspect that Case Western and Rochester, and plenty of other research universities, might also be schools where kids who dare to be English majors end up in a SLAC-like bubble inside a research university. [/quote]

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