<p>??? see above</p>
<p>LAC stands for liberal arts college. They are small colleges who focus on teaching: small class sizes, overall little research (with exceptions), no graduate programs. Most liberal arts colleges offer liberal arts classes only (sciences, literature, history, sociology, music etc) and no pre-professional majors (business, engineering, nursing, etc).</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p>Liberal Arts College -</p>
<p>The art of being a liberal; the pursuit of both education and poverty at the same time, the crux of which is a liberal arts degree.</p>
<p>“Jaclyn received a degree in Media Study from a prestigious liberal arts college and works at Starbucks fifty hours a week to repay her $120,000 of debt.”</p>
<p>a cadillac</p>
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<p>You do realize no one actually has that much debt from undergrad right?</p>
<p>^ not true - I’ve met people with that much debt and more. My college has the unfortunate combination of being both expensive and stingy with financial aid, so there you go. honestly, I don’t even feel sorry for people with that much debt - I’m shocked anyone would be dumb enough to take out so much in loans, when there’s cheaper alternatives. Plus, that definition sounds like it was from Urban dictionary :]</p>
<p>post 2 is like the perfect answer</p>
<p>also, media study isn’t even a liberal art…is it? i thought liberal arts = humanities, social sciences, math/science.</p>
<p>I know, guys, I was being facetious. Hell, I go to a “prestigious” liberal arts college …</p>
<p>math, science, and economics are all “liberal arts degrees” technically, so you can get a good degree from a LAC, and most people going into med or law school will have a liberal arts degree</p>
<p>but there’s a lot of people who don’t take degrees seriously unless they’re in engineering or business, and those people tend to frown on LACs</p>
<p>^ since when do people take business degrees seriously? (unless they’re from wharton and the like). as for engineering, it’s unpopular with americans in general. that’s one of 'em jobs we leave to the furreigners. </p>
<p>I don’t like LACs myself, because they’re small and usually in the middle of nowhere. plus they tend to attract a certain type of student who’s after a “nurturing and cuddly” environment and wants lots of attention from professors. I wouldn’t be surprised if LACs had a higher percentage of middle children compared to universities. </p>
<p>(ps - i was kiddding, kind of, so no one bother being offended :P)</p>
<p>Oh I was talking about CCers.</p>
<p>Can we use this thread to get the rest of the acronyms out of the way? Everytime I read someone with HYPSMU or D or something like that, I feel like a German code breaker in WWII.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah. D means daughter and S means son. HYPSM refers to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Moody (Bible College), Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and Utica College of Syracuse University, the top colleges in terms of prestige and name recognition by non-students.</p>
<p>i’ve never heard of Moody, Utica or Shippensburg. I figured the M stood for MIT, the S for Stanford and… well I’ve never seen a “U” before.</p>
<p>A LAC–a college where coddled rich white kids place the ‘high’ in ‘higher education.’</p>
<p>see also: money pit</p>
<p>so many lac bashers on here. post number 2 got it. but would also like to add, that universities also have liberal art colleges in them, hence college of liberal arts and sciences or the acronym CLAS. universities have colleges with in them, including professional schools, graduate schools, “clas” or liberal art colleges, etc. The difference between both is usually the university will have more course offerings, more research, and a bigger student population(which usually can mean less attention than a small lac)</p>
<p>Lame-ass college :P</p>
<p>Just kidding. Post #2 was the most accurate.</p>
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<p>Oh, I’m talking about elite colleges here. You pretty much have to be in the top 1/2 percent of all the students in the world to even hear about most of these, let alone apply. The only reason most people know about Harvard, Yale, and Princeton is because of publicity campaigns.</p>
<p>If anyone’s looking for a good laugh google these colleges that you haven’t heard of because you’re not ‘in the top 1/2 percent of all students in the world’… see just how elite they really are. We’ve all heard of Yale, Harvard etc for a reason, the same reason we haven’t heard of ‘Moody Bible College’.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my old community college was more ‘elite’ than some of those places.</p>
<p>Jahaba was either joking or ■■■■■■■■:</p>
<p>Utica College: For the Class of 2013, the average high school GPA was a 3.42.
[Utica</a> College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utica_College]Utica”>Utica University - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Moody Bible College: Average high school GPA: 3.3
[Moody</a> Bible Institute Admissions Profiles](<a href=“http://www.eduers.com/University/Illinois/Moody_Bible_Institute.html]Moody”>http://www.eduers.com/University/Illinois/Moody_Bible_Institute.html)</p>
<p>Shippensberg College: Average High School GPA of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA: 3.2
[Shippensburg</a> University ? Institutional Research ? Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.ship.edu/IRP/Common_Data_Set/]Shippensburg”>Shippensburg University - Common Data Set)</p>
<p>Oh, those are actually real colleges? I should have known that only on CC would someone investigate a joke post. :D</p>