<p>And xiggi, I know some professors’ kids go to LAC. I don’t need to meet them. I have met hundreds of professors (in grad school and as a professor) and the academics’ kids I know attend universities, not LACs. I find the study fascinating not because I think it’s false (it seems like a serious study), but because I wonder why as a professor in the social sciences, I haven’t met one colleague with kids in a LAC. I think it might be different in New England. In the midwest, where I live, for many students their top choices are either places like WashU or UChicago or universities in the big 12.</p>