Great article on the value of a Residential Liberal Arts college

Colleges and Universities A-Z Swarthmore College
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<p>Not specifically Swarthmore, but it still applies</p>

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<p>Very nice. Thank you for posting. When D first started looking at colleges we had no idea where, what, when. Her school wasn’t very helpful and for the most part our friends didn’t have kids looking at the same types of schools. Everyone we know goes to about a handful of schools within a 2 hour drive and they are universities (UMass, UNH, BU), alot of my friends’ kids went military or tech. When D first gave me a list beginning of her junior year I hadn’t heard of most of them. Turns out they are all LACs. They were many on that original list that I vetoed that I wish I had looked at more closely now. I won’t say which they were but they didn’t meet my criteria. Little did I know how much my criteria would change. Hers not so much. I think all but one or two of her 18 schools are LACs exactly for the reasons this article states, personal attention.</p>