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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being from an urban area, I wanted a change and graduated from a rural college. Loved it! Was a peaceful, low crime, nurturing environment with lots of campus activities and [b]instruction from actual professors instead of teaching assistants[/b]. [/quote]

Let's not confuse the thread.  You went to a very specific type of rural college...there are hundreds if not thousands of small, rural colleges that are just regional colleges with declining student populations and underfunded programs.

Rural college does not automatically = Williams.  In fact the Top SLACs are the exception in terms of the profile of the average small, rural college.[/quote]

Look at the original post: "Some lovely schools are in distant locations, from Bates and Bowdoin to Grinnell and Oberlin.
Why go to a school like this if you could get into a comparable school with access to more resources? I'm not being snarky. I am genuinely curious about the appeal."

The question was not about the average college. [/quote]

Fair enough...I focus on the recent posts.  The heading really should be "why go to a selective small college in a rural area"...using the definition that if you accept less than 50% of applicants you are selective.

To the PP regarding the vast majority of rural, small colleges:

So the school (Chatfield) announced in the fall of 2022 that it would shut down at the end of that semester, taking 70 jobs with it. It barely made the headlines. But it had joined more than a dozen other private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve rural students that have closed or announced their closings just since 2020.

Those include Nebraska Christian College, Marlboro College in Vermont, Holy Family College in Wisconsin, Judson College in Alabama, Ohio Valley and Alderson Broaddus universities in West Virginia, Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in New Hampshire, Iowa Wesleyan University, Marymount California University, Cazenovia College in New York, Finlandia University in Michigan, Presentation College in South Dakota and Lincoln College, Lincoln Christian University and MacMurray College in Illinois.[/quote]

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