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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most end up going to grad school so it ends up working out. I recently read that the biggest feeder to Tuck is Middlebury, which doesn't surprise me. I'm a LAC grad and I'm going to encourage my kids to go to a LAC if they can get merit aid.They can save the ivy league experience for graduate school. [/quote]

I think the biggest feeder to Tuck is still Dartmouth. After that it is spread out over tons of schools, although certainly Middlebury and Williams are very well represented. In my day there were way more Williams kids than Midd kids, but Midd has also gotten a lot bigger since then. Not surprisingly Tuck tends to be very popular with kids who went to remote LACs in cold places.

I did the LAC (no merit aid) to Ivy (tons of aid) route and it's a good one. But one of my kids goes to a top state flagship and is getting an excellent education and is taking advantage of the resources of a big university. I don't buy the LAC focus on undergrad teaching argument anymore - DCs profs and TAs are great and particularly in smaller upper level classes there is plenty of personal attention. While my intro classes were certainly smaller than DCs were, I didn't know my intro profs anymore than DC does, they were just lectures, and we didn't benefit from smaller discussion groups like DC has always had with the large lecture classes.[/quote]

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