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[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]

Even if there are only 1800 students in the entire school and it feels suffocating??[/quote]

then for that student, you find a bigger school. Not all of them are that small.

Also don't forget that there are consortiums at many smaller schools, and if the school is near a metro area, that also increases social opportunities.

A few examples:
As I stated above, my alma mater is Wake Forest. I was in the marching band and our consortium with Salem College allowed those students to participate with us. I have heard of other places where this happens, so worth thinking about.
My child was considering Randolph College, which has a consortium with ULynchburg and Sweet Briar - that would have expanded class options for her and social group.
We looked at Meredith College in NC. Small women's college, but a mile from NC State (also part of a consortium) AND in Raleigh. So you get the small school experience with larger school AND city opportunities. My daughter didn't wind up applying in the end, but it was a lovely school.[/quote]

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