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[b]LACs are not real life--they are like living in a bubble[/b].[/quote]

Virtually all residential colleges are not real life and like living in bubbles - public, private, large, small, urban, rural - at least as long as you live in university-owned and run housing and eat in the university dining halls.  But that's really the only reason to make them residential.  They are supposed to provide a bridge or transition from living at home to living on your own.  Many schools have apartment-style junior/senior housing with kitchen facilities and reduced dining plan requirements to push students along in this transition to independence.

Suggesting that non-LACs are somehow not organized around this same principle ignores reality and indicates bias.  Having a larger number of people in the bubble does not make it less bubble-like.  Maybe a remote, rural, campus is less real in the sense of security issues or contact with people outside the campus, but there are plenty of remote, rural, non-LACs and even the urban campuses are literally set-up to minimize security issues, including having campus transportation services and campus police patrolling off campus, in a way that is not real life.  And that's OK.  That's part of the educational process you are signing your kid up for when you send them to a residential college.  [/quote]

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