<p>Here’s an OPINION in favor of LACs from a prof:</p>
<p>"I haven’t forgotten! The short answer is that your professor’s advice is basically correct. People who go to Stanford as undergraduates are discouraged from doing graduate work there in the same department. The examples work with any major university (Virginia, Michigan, Duke, Harvard, Chicago, Montana, Alabama, Texas, Yale you name it). Even after a Ph.D., universities usually want a professor to teach somewhere else for a while before “welcoming” him/her back to the university where s/he earned the Ph.D. Yes, I wouldn’t mind teaching at the Committee on Social Thought someday, but it couldn’t have happened right away. It’s been fifteen years now, so who knows?</p>
<p>I think that nothing is better preparation for graduate study at the top schools than a great liberal arts education. It is why I chose NOT to go to Chicago as an undergraduate. I wanted the perfect preparation, which I got at a liberal arts school, followed by my dream of studying for the doctorate at Chicago. An anthropology major at ****** College (recognized as one of the best, and often THE best, undergraduate department of anthropology in the country) is perfect. I am biased toward liberal arts colleges (four year ones like ******) for the B.A. Not everyone would agree, but it is hard to argue with the results over time."</p>
<p>Yes, it’s an opinion.</p>