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[b]LACs are not real life--they are like living in a bubble[/b].[/quote]

Virtually all residential colleges are not real life and like living in bubbles - public, private, large, small, urban, rural - at least as long as you live in university-owned and run housing and eat in the university dining halls.  But that's really the only reason to make them residential.  They are supposed to provide a bridge or transition from living at home to living on your own.  Many schools have apartment-style junior/senior housing with kitchen facilities and reduced dining plan requirements to push students along in this transition to independence.

Suggesting that non-LACs are somehow not organized around this same principle ignores reality and indicates bias.  Having a larger number of people in the bubble does not make it less bubble-like.  Maybe a remote, rural, campus is less real in the sense of security issues or contact with people outside the campus, but there are plenty of remote, rural, non-LACs and even the urban campuses are literally set-up to minimize security issues, including having campus transportation services and campus police patrolling off campus, in a way that is not real life.  And that's OK.  That's part of the educational process you are signing your kid up for when you send them to a residential college.  [/quote]

Sorry, but to blunt, you have no idea about the differences between small rural, isolated LACs and large universities. I have degrees from both & have been involved in college & university issues for several decades and my experience is quite different from your imaginary world.[/quote]

Sounds like we have similar experiences (I've been in this world for over 25 years), but we have drawn very different conclusions from those experiences.  I hope you're not one of those high-priced consultants universities are always wasting their money on.  Feel free to point out exactly which cities provide the services and sheltering of a university.  The biggest differences between large and small educational institutions is the size of the bureaucracy within the institutions, but the pain of the bureaucracy is not much different and neither are comparable to the bureaucracy of real life.[/quote]

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