<p>When you’re saying “general education courses,” do you maybe mean truly-elective electives? So after you’ve done all the stuff you have to do to meet one requirement or another, that’s how many credits you have left to use absolutely any way you want? (I agree, telling us the real question rather than setting it up as an elaborate hypothetical always works better.)</p>
<p>I anticipate that my D is going to have to make the “tech school or LAC-like school” choice at some point. I suspect a LAC-like school is going to be a better fit for the kind of kid she is, and would point her in that direction, accordingly. But that reflects on her as a kid, not the school as a school. </p>
<p>I would strongly dissuade her from a specialized school with loans as the primary form of financial aid (like RHIT, for instance), because failing to graduate but being burdened with a significant amount of debt is a bad place to be.</p>