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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For other stem majors, I think almost all lacs provide a reasonably good education.  I like WASP, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Carleton.[/quote]

These would also be strong for humanities. [/quote]
Carleton MUCH LESS so compared to good lacs like Amherst.[/quote]
Give it a rest. Amherst is not all that — the location sucks and the athlete/non-athlete divide is way too pronounced.[/quote]

Amherst has an amazing science center and strong outcomes. Carleton has wonderful outcomes, with lots going on to PhDs. Oberlin, too. Wellesley students can take courses at MIT. They also participate in the Twelve College Exchange Program. Kids can get great STEM and/or humanities educations at just about any high-ranked LAC.[/quote]
Science center is overcrowded with too many departments. Many other schools give chem and bio individual buildings.[/quote]

The Amherst interdisciplinary science center is larger than the science centers of the other LACs mentioned here. There is a reason to put all the sciences together in one roof: for easy collaboration. Science and research do not work in silos[/quote]
Every peer of Amherst has whole buildings for biology and chemistry. Some have more than one. This is wrong. Also collaboration isn’t difficult across a liberal arts college campus.[/quote]
Space designed for collaborative encounters is a design feature of modern science facilities. Such collaboration will be enhanced when various science departments occupy the same building or are in linked buildings. Union (the top LAC in the Princeton Review site posted earlier) offers an excellent example of such a design.

https://www.turnerconstruction.com/projects/union-college-integrated-science-and-engineering-complex-isec[/quote]

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