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<p>Frankly, I’m not sorry LACs are given the cold shoulder coming from a student’s perspective. I used to be enamored with UChicago as what one CC user called a “think tank factory”. Ever since it gained mass popular appeal under the Zimmer/Nondorf regime, it is gradually becoming “Princetonized”, as they say, and watch that acceptance rate plummet as Chicago gradually have more cross-applicants with HYPS than Reed, St. John’s, Shimer, etc. Think tank factory is exactly what I was after and frankly the (admittedly vain) regard for rankings kept me from it. In fact I still wonder if I should have applied to a Great Books program or Reed. You know, even more out-of-the-way, purely intellectual and little known.</p>