<p>My kids aren’t parallel majors, but I know enough about the course offerings to know that there isn’t much difference between being an economics major at Wellesley and an economics major at Northwestern, except that one is plopped down in the middle of a larger university than the other. The differences I see between their experiences are more related to the specifics of <em>that particular college</em> (Chicago vs Boston, co-ed vs all-female, one place takes itself far more seriously than the other) but I don’t think they are categorical “RU vs LAC” differences, just differences between those two places. In other words, if you want to compare experiences at different schools, compare those experiences, instead of trying to compare the categories.</p>