<p>Yeah, so I'm looking for somewhat selective universities with a LAC feel (no, really?), or just large-sized LACs (oxymoron much?). Lately, I have fallen in love with Princeton, with it's beautiful campus and small college feel, but hey, everyone needs matches and safeties.</p>
<p>Even though Rice is very strong in the sciences, I'd say they have an LAC feel.</p>
<p>Emory brands itself as such a university, but I've never attended so I only have anecdotal evidence to the affirmative.</p>
<p>I always think of University of Chicago in this way-- 4400 ugrad, 9000 grad, all professors teach ugrad classes, focus on discussion-based classes.</p>
<p>And, oh yeah, there's a major hospital right here, more research opportunities than there are students to fill them, and a business school and a law school right by campus.</p>
<p>College of William and Mary would definitely fit what you're asking.</p>
<p>So would UC Santa Cruz i would think</p>
<p>Rice University</p>
<p>Emory definietely has that "LAC" feel</p>
<p>Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Chicago, WashU, Brown, Rice, Emory, Tufts, Wake, W&M, Brandeis, Rochester, Case, Pepperdine, SMU, Tulsa, Clark, U of Denver, TCU, U of San Diego (those are just a few going down the US News top tier list)</p>
<p>Larger LAC options: Wesleyan, Colgate, Oberlin, Bucknell, Holy Cross, St. Olaf, Richmond, Union</p>
<p>Brandeis has about 3,000 undergrad.</p>
<p>A LAC that's a bit like a university might be one of the Claremont Colleges, its five LAC's all on the same campus; which is a bit closer to a university.</p>
<p>University of Rochester.
4000 undergrads
Most grad students are off campus at the hospital complex, or at the Eastman school downtown.</p>
<p>(columbia definitely does not fall into this category)</p>
<p>Tufts and Brown are two of the most cited examples</p>
<p>William and Mary/Rice/Claremont colleges/Wake Forest all have the best of both worlds of undergrad focus without the suffocatingly, small "everyone knows my business" environment that some LACs have.</p>
<p>Wake Forest University for sure</p>
<p>I second Huskem's statement that Tufts and Brown are the best examples of LAC-feel universities. Best of both worlds!</p>
<p>Dartmouth is probably the best example size and feel wise. Princeton certainly has UG feel with none of the main three pre-professional programs, although it does have PhD programs in most major areas of study.</p>
<p>what about Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>I don't think any predominantly tech school (MIT, RPI, WPI, CMU, etc) really qualifies as LAC feel since they have such a minimal focus on humanities and social sciences.</p>
<p>Haha, MIT students are required to take at least 25% of their classes in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.</p>
<p>The feel is still not the same. I doubt the % of students majoring in humanities and social sciences at MIT is nearly the same as at Amherst. At the very least, planning to focus on humanities and social sciences isn't why students go to these tech schools.</p>
<p>I like Art Vandeley's list, except nix Columbia, Duke, and Chicago (all have way too many grad students).</p>