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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't high school have a lot of athletes,  people in plays, etc.? Don't know why college would be any different.

Time to grow up.[/quote]

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Time to grow up ? Please reread your post; you are making the point that LACs are just like redoing high school. I agree.[/quote]

It's not re-doing high school. High school has groups doing the same things most colleges do regardless of size. If a kid cannot adapt socially,  that's not the college's fault.

Someone  18-22 needs to learn how to interact with a college community.  The social environment will not be tailor made for you.[/quote]

I appreciate your perspective, but I still disagree.

LACs are more cliquish than high schools and this is a problem because students spend 24 hours of each day on campus. There is no break from the segregation. At least during high school one ate breakfast & dinner elsewhere & slept at home.

Larger schools require more maturity due to diversity on all levels--social, academic, athletic, as well as economically. If a student wants to segregate at a large school, then it is easy to join a fraternity or sorority or live in a group theme house; but large universities also have lots of independent students as well as the opportunity for occasional anonymity. In short, LACs are like living in a small town where everyone knows everyone's business and each person has a place while large universities are more like living in a city amid diversity in all of its forms. LACs delay real life--which is fine if that is what one prefers.[/quote]

You people are so crazy. I can’t imagine being a full-grown adult and writing anything like the above. It is bizarre. Fascinating in a way because I find the anti-SLAC people interesting — I can’t imagine making SLACs my obsession in life — but bizarre. [/quote]

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