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If you want to quote anecdotes, I've got one for you too. Out of 210 entering EE grad students at Stanford, maybe 100 of them are from the U.S. When asked at orientation if any of us were from a LAC, not a single person raised his hand. Perhaps they all happened to be absent that day? Also, I personally have not run into any students from any LAC, prestigious or otherwise, but I know plenty from schools like MIT, Berkeley, and Illinois.
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<p>No LAC has a good engineering program to the contrary of what many people here claim, so it's not surprising. If you went into a humanities or pure sciences department and asked the same question, you'd get a different answer.</p>