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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From parents who attended SLAC’s whose kids are going to state schools (opposite perspective but hope this helps):

1. More people, more students
2. More name recognition (not having to explain your kid’s college)
3. Cheaper tuition
4. Greek life 
5. Not getting into certain classes as easily
6. Your kid has to move into an apartment after the first year
7. Easier to find rides home for vacations if you’re in-state
8. Easier to find others in your immediate circle whose kids have attended or are attending the same college [/quote]

I would add:

9.  Far more majors and depth of courses to choose from.[/quote]
I would also add:
10. More likely to have large lectures rather than small seminars.

I went to a SLAC where it was typical to have 5 person classes. Kid is now at a large public and the difference is astonishing. [/quote]
This is the part that’s a hard sell for me. I find no utility in going to a 200+ person lecture. Just read the lecture notes and go to exams. It’s a waste of time for everyone to pretend that you’re actually learning from that. [/quote]

DP.

100% this.

I went to a SLAC undergrad, then on to a T10 public u law school.

Took me about 3 weeks as a 1-L to stop attending the large lecture classes. Just a horrible educational experience/model.[/quote]

Different people are different, I guess.

I also went to a SLAC undergrad, then on to a T10 public u law school.

I attended every lecture for all three years. I find it much, much easier to learn from a lecture, taking my own notes, than to learn from lecture notes alone.

The fact that an educational model doesn’t work for you does not make it a horrible model for everyone. [/quote]

True, but I was making a different comparison.

Small <25 student discussion-based classes (SLAC) vs. 100+ student lecture-based classes (public u law school).

I’d wager that 90% of students will learn more in the former than the latter.[/quote]

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