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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid (who just graduated from an SLAC) had many more leadership and research opportunities then she would have at a large public. The community is so small that no one goes unnoticed (in a good way). She really emerged and shone.

Plus, because there are only undergrads to staff the labs, she had her choice of research opportunities and parlayed that into  3 or 4 peer reviewed publications as an undergrad. I doubt that would have happened at a large RO1 university.[/quote]

Except you don’t know this.  You’re just assuming.  [/quote]

Well I know she did not emerge when she was a student at a large public high school (which was larger than the college she chose).

I have met people who told me that if you skip class or sit in the back row and sleep in very large survey classes (more common at large universities), you can go unnoticed entirely or for longer a big university (my kid's school had no classes larger than 50, and most were under 20. Also, each kid was assigned two advisors).

I know she did not have to compete with graduate students to score a position working in her advisor's lab.

And I am pretty sure that if she was taking The History of Food at a large school, the whole class would not be invited to go to their professor's house to cook the food they had based their final papers on, and meet his family.

I know what my kid's experience was, and I have talked to PLENTY of people who had polar opposite experiences (such as having to study in their parents' living room during finals week because they could not find a place to study in the library/on campus. Seeing signs all over the library that it is not safe to leave your laptop or backpack for even a few minutes, etc). Those are not assumptions, those are experiences. [/quote]

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