<p>So right , VeryHappy. We know this from personal experience. My son is a senior with this criterion. (He’s obviously more observant than his mom, who is online on a Saturday afternoon. 
) In many respects a LAC would have been a great choice for him, and he kicked the tires at several. Of those he looked at, only Amherst has regular Saturday morning services within walking distance, and they are at UMass Amherst (there is an active 5-College Consortium Hillel). The problem would be finding a few other like-minded Amherst students to walk there with him on a Saturday morning. Too lonely, otherwise.</p>
<p>So having a particular type of Jewish community at or near the top of your list of criteria makes things both harder and easier. Harder because many excellent schools are arbitrarily eliminated from consideration. Easier because the universe of possibilities is narrower. My son was able to formulate his college list fairly easily last spring, and it hasn’t changed.</p>