An elite private. Comparable schools academically. I just didn’t a lot of difference between being in an LAC and being in a liberal arts college embedded within a larger university. The courses were similar. The class sizes were similar. The interaction with profs was similar. You’d learn exactly the same things being an Econ major at the LAC as you would being an Econ major at the research u. The division seems a little arbitrary to me and indeed my kids had both LACs and research u’s on their lists.