<p>Let us know how the decisions turn out!</p>
<p>My own bias: students have this opportunity to obtain a liberal arts education at a LAC, and can continue on to graduate school for more labs and problem sets. At a LAC you will also be interacting and making life long friends from students from nonscience areas. My own experience: earned a physics degree from a LAC, went on to earn a Ph.D. in engineering at top engineering school. I asked why they accepted me. Answer: “you went to ABC LAC and you have a physcis major.”</p>
<p>Is your student committed to spending their very first year at college working on problem sets and labs? I know HMC has its HUM classes, but in reading posts, the students don’t take them very seriously. HMC students take music and language off campus, but what are the real numbers for other nonscience classes?</p>