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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD at T10 and quite happy. Specifically, she really likes the range of activities, classes, and social opportunities that comes with a school of some size. She said she likes that when she walks across campus, she’ll always be likely to see someone when she recognized, but she’s always meeting new people as well. What I hear over and over from parents of kids making these kinds of choices is that the transition to the small LAC can be easier than the larger school, the small nurturing environment can be comforting for an 18-year-old away from home, but by the time they hit junior year or so it can be sort of, claustrophobic. (Probably why so many kids go abroad for some or all of junior year) so it’s a situation where your kid has to know themselves.[/quote]

Kids go abroad junior year because they at the point in their studies where they can specialize.One of my kids did science research abroad.  One of my kids did foreign language immersion.  The language was not a continuation from HS. Brand new, class 5x a week language. She wasn’t ready before spring of junior year. The other kid did geology field capstone project.. Which needed to wait until he had taken the necessary classes. Different schools of different sizes.

I’m sure some skid do find SLACs  to be too small. But, study abroad junior year is common no matter what the size of college.  It’s late enough that the kid can do some individual study, knows the foreign language, is more mature to better deal with some curveballs. But, nobody wants to miss senior year at their college. E[/quote]

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