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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering.  However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education.  The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings.  I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day.  I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.[/quote]
So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?[/quote]

You are swimming against the consensus here on DCUM. Most believe that an elite SLAC provides a better undergraduate experience.[/quote]
I’m not making any argument at all, I was asking a comprehension question.[/quote]
There’s very few- WASP, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Carleton, and Mudd[/quote]

But Harvey Mudd is very STEM. And Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, and Wellesley will all have a sizable number of pre-professional students.

I think if you're really fixated on humanities, the best options are universities with core curriculums like Chicago and Columbia. The higher level class options in literature, history, philosophy and so on at liberal arts colleges are far too limited. [/quote]

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