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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Fit" is a thing but my hope is that our children aren't in need of a particular fit. We discourage SLACs.[/quote]

The college professors in our family have the exact opposite opinion. They discourage large schools and any school with a big graduate program. They want all the kids in the family to attend a school where the primary focus of fully tenured professors is undergraduate education.[/quote]

If I were looking for advice for success and happiness in life, I would not look to college professors.[/quote]

This is advice on what makes for a good a college education.[/quote]

"College education" is about a lot more than direct interface with one's instructors, and a lot of professors don't understand that. It leads them to overvalue LACs, especially the kind that (over) produce PhDs. I'm not saying LACs are bad, but let's keep things in proportion.[/quote]

You say that as if LACs don't have those other things as well. [/quote]

* Diverse peer groups?
* Huge sporting events? 
* Decent career offices and OCR?
* Well resourced libraries? 
* A wide variety of specialized majors? 
* State of the art labs?

All of the above items could be construed as part of a good college education. Many LACs have none of them and some have none of them. I'm not saying LACs are bad. But it's a trade-off that's not worth it for most.[/quote]

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