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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the SLACs offer a smaller environment and a more personalized education, don't they? You're not jostling with 100s for the attention of a professor. This is just going to suit some students better than others. [/quote]

Exactly. You pay for the handholding, like in pre-K [/quote]

Ah, I see what you did there

I went to a large state school, did well and enjoyed myself, but I can see the appeal of what PP described. It's someone actually caring (being paid to care?) about the student's experience. Sounds nice.
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They are just jealous they couldn't afford to attend or get into a SLAC.  My kid's wanted slightly larger (and one is an engineer, so major not available at SLAC) and both attended schools with 5-8K undergrads.  That means majority of classes are under 40 students, once you get out of the initial Chem sequences---but even for those it's only 200 at most and they have labs (20 students) and discussion sections (12 students), so you get the small experience with the discussion sections. [/quote]

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