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[quote=Anonymous]"The flaw in your logic is the assumption that professors at LACs aren't doing research. They are; and in fact at an LAC there are no grad students competing for the positions working with them. So the situation you mention is the opposite of the fact. You will likely form better relationships with your professors and have a better chance at a research position (key for grad school) if you are at an LAC."

There is not a flaw in their logic anymore than there is a flaw in yours.

While it seems possible some schools are so huge that undergrads don't interact with professors, actually, any undergrad who does research of high enough quality to matter for grad school admissions will have plenty of interaction with their advising professor.

I published a paper as an undergraduate.  I guarantee my undergrad adviser spent just as much time with me related to my paper as he did with ANY grad student.

When I was in grad school, my grad adviser was the same.  If they are going to put their name on it and you are first author, you have a relationship with the PI, even if they are a Nobel Laureate.

In addition, in many of the more liberal arts subjects publications don't really have coauthors and so professors are just editing in their limited spare time.

Finally, not to knock liberal arts schools even if I sound like it, many STEM subjects require expensive equipment that Universities can afford and LACs can't.[/quote]

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