“this argues that LACs are better at providing undergraduates with more opportunities at gain this experience.”
The RU vs LAC discussion gets played may be too much in threads like this, but this is so far off the mark and an exaggeration that it needs to be brought out. There are kids I know at Stanford, Berkeley, MIT and Harvard who do not clean up labs but do actual research.
By your logic, someone getting into Stanford and Amherst to do CS research should pick Amherst because a LAC is better at providing research opportunities than a RU like Stanford.
https://www.swarthmore.edu/institutional-research/doctorates-awarded.
This also shows that Swarthmore is proud of their kids getting into Cal Tech, MIT etc, because guess what, that’s where the real research is done, at a RU, surprising as that sounds.