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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you go to a liberal arts school for economics, liberal arts is trash major[/quote]

Students at a liberal arts college don't major in liberal arts. OP's daughter would major in econ, potentially.

Top liberal arts colleges have more students per capita eventually earning Ph.D.s of all kinds, including Ph.D.s in economics.

Here's the undergraduate institutions that have, in the past, produced the most eventual economics Ph.D.s per capita:

Swarthmore
Williams
Reed
Macalester
Carleton
Amherst
Grinnell
Wellesley
Pomona
Wesleyan
Cal Tech
Centre
Princeton
Whitman
Davidson
Knox
Haverford
Ohio Wesleyan
MIT
Kalamazoo

OP, some of these might be potential reaches/lottery schools for your DD, while others might be good safety schools to look at (e.g. Knox, Kalamazoo).[/quote]

There are some really good colleges on this list.  I agree with PP about getting a good sense from your daughter first of the type of setting (urban/rural), part of country, and how she feels about the potential of being the only AA person in small classes at some of the less diverse colleges.  That should help drive college selection much more than the counselor.

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