I just need to say that I think @Lindagaf is getting a lot of negative reaction for what struck me as a pretty innocuous post. I understood her post to mean that some people may not know that small LAC’s are a possibility, because maybe they have not heard of them as much as big research or sports universities, but that they have some positive characteristics she listed, and maybe applicants might want to consider them. She never said anything negative about big universities and clarified in later posts that it was never her intention to disparage universities.
I do agree with someone’s comment that some of these benefits pertain most to highly selective and well funded colleges, not all small colleges.