<p>I would like people to share their opinions about what they think about Liberal Art Colleges. What make them different from other colleges (academic, student body/diversity, social life, etc.)? Why would you say "nah" to LACs?</p>
<p>For those who are into LAC, please feel free to share your thoughts/why you fall in love with LACs :)</p>
<p>I love LACs. I love that as the Amherst tour guide took us on the campus tour, he constantly had to turn around and greet friends walking to and from classes. That didn’t happen at larger universities. There was a whole feeling of community there that I feel you just don’t get at a larger university.</p>
<p>Just my opinion, everyone has different preferences.</p>
<p>I LOVE LACs… I really like small campuses and small classes. Also, I don’t care for big football games or sororities or anything. Normally(not always) LACs do not focus on these thing. </p>
<p>Not just that, but I’m primarily interested in women’s colleges, and they are all LACs</p>
<p>When I was looking for colleges (I graduated from high school in 2003), I had absolutely no interest in LACs. I threw away any mailings that I received from LACs. That’s not to say that they are not perfect for some people, but I knew that I didn’t want to go to one.</p>
<p>I wanted to go someplace where world-class research, particularly science/engineering research, was being done, and that was very strong in science/engineering, which, while it doesn’t eliminate all LACs, cuts into them quite a bit. I didn’t need a really big school (and in fact, the school that I went to has an undergrad population of only about 4000), but I wanted it to be big enough that there was plenty of diversity in the social scene, which some LACs pull off and others don’t.</p>
<p>On a bigger-picture level, the very thing that appeals to so many people about LACs made them, and makes them, very unappealing to me. I did not want to be an undergrad at a place where undergrads were the center of the universe. I did not want to be in a place where the existence of the faculty was primarily for my benefit. I wanted to be a small part of something bigger, to be involved at a junior level with a great university enterprise. I liked being able to walk through the halls at night and hear the humming of the lab equipment and machinery and think about what might be going on there.</p>