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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure why but kids at SLACS seem much more likely to take a semester abroad than students at big state schools, if that is of interest.  Was an incredible experience for my son and many of his high school friends from other SLACS were scattered across Europe first semester of Junior year, even those who played D3 spring sports.  [/quote]

Blah blah blah.  You can study abroad from any school.  Easily.  One of my kids did it from a SLAC.  Two others did it from State U.  I did it from a Catholic U way back in the day.

My hunch is that a higher proportion of SLAC kids study abroad only because they feel like they’re suffocating in their small environments and feel the need to get away. [/quote]

NP. I find your bizarre hatred of SLACs so fascinating. You haunt these boards, often posting immediately when the word SLAC is mentioned, and have a pretty distinctive and identifiable writing style. What happened to you that has made you so obsessed? Did your child have a bad experience?

I went to HYS/big state schools and my kids look like they’re headed to the same, so it’s not personal. I’m just kind of fascinated by how someone becomes so crazy about one style of school. [/quote]

You’re confusing me with someone else.  As I said, one of my kids went to a [b][u](top-ranked)[/u][/b] liberal arts college.  I’m just saying that it’s baloney that one of the advantages of liberal arts colleges is study abroad, because it isn’t.  You don’t have to make up the benefits.  [/quote]

That detail is relevant and important.

:roll: [/quote]

Yes, it is, because I’d never send a kid to a liberal arts college that isn’t top ranked.  No way.  [/quote]

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