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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are all LACs--just apply ED and have your checkbook ready ![/quote]

Lehigh and BC are not LACs. [/quote]

BC is VERY MUCH a LAC (just not a "small" LAC).  Even School of Management students are required to take a full liberal arts core - in addition to their management core. They require 2 each of english, history, philosophy, social science, theology - that's 1/4 our your college career.[/quote]

Hey Mr/Ms CAPS - I am the pp. You are incorrect, as I posted earlier. Taking a full liberal arts core does not equate to being a LAC. The core at BC is Jesuit. BC is a private, Jesuit research university. Look it up. Furthermore, LACs do not offer separate colleges for Engineering, Education, Business, etc. A university may have a Liberal Arts School, but that does not make it a LAC. [/quote]

I love how you have chosen "LAC" to be something strictly defined to match your interpretation when LAC is not a term that is uniquely defined, or set in stone to match your interpretation.  Others may follow your interpretation too, but there are applications of liberal arts that have nothing to do with R1, with "university vs college", with varying specialty schools, or even with gen ed.

In the end, it's clear you don't quite understand why those of us who actually went to BC would call it a liberal arts school (even the school of management). You haven't experienced it and that's fine. But we have and we'd like to inform the OP accordingly.

As a BC grad and parent who toured colleges with our children - I recognized when schools (of many varieties) were liberal arts colleges at heart vs those with general ed requirements vs those with neither.

OP - best of luck to your child. Hopefully they get into at least one of these three schools (and maybe all three!) and is happy where they land!!
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