I don’t know how Elmira College would place against other LACs, but I just visited there and they are very undergrad based. I talked to a professor in the Political Science department and he mentioned that undergrads have lots of opportunities to work with their professors on their research/work. He had had some undergrads fact check for a textbook he wrote a bit ago! A lot of this is because they don’t have almost any graduate degrees, therefore no graduate students to take up opportunities with professors, or to teach lower level classes.