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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope that the OP is right - it will help my son when he's applying to SLACs in two years!  My other son is at a NESCAC and loves it.  He figured he was likely to spend the rest of his life in a city and he wanted to spend his weekends hiking, kayaking, skiing, etc. and his class time is small discussion-based classes not large lecture halls.  Not everyone cares about big football games and not everyone at a SLAC spends their weekends drinking.  I really don't understand DCUM's obsession (and it truly is an obsession) with where kids chose to go to school.  Are adults really so insecure that they have to question decisions made by teenagers and their parents? [b]My son and his friends celebrated every single one of each other's college decisions - big state schools, SLACs, Ivy, urban, rural, Catholic, non-denomination, co-ed, women's colleges - they were happy for each other. [/b]Some of his friends had to make their decisions based on cost, others made it based on their intended major.  But none of them questioned each other and none of us parents questioned their parents why they were sending their kids to these school.  [/quote]

This. People are different and can have very different needs and preferences in choosing a college. My two kids are very different in what they want with one now at a 30K student school and the other only wanting to look at rural LACs. Both will find what makes sense for them. Their only common interest was that both hated urban colleges. So I guess they are out-of-step with current trends.[/quote]

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