My “kicks butt in Calculus and Physics” D did not look at LAC’s precisely because they do not include the “T” and the “E”. At the moment, she is a bit undecided about a major, but she wanted the security of knowing that the school had an engineering program if she does decide to go that direction. At the same time, she didn’t want to go to a purely technical school. Her list contains a couple state flag-ship universities, a couple Ivies and some smaller private research unis. All have engineering. Well-known and selective schools such as UChicago and UNC-CH did not make the list either, precisely because of lack of an engineering program. LACs did not even get the opportunity to sell themselves, so they weren’t doing anything wrong, they just weren’t what she was looking for.