<p>Is this discussion limited to the top LACs (like to give an arbitrary number top 50) or is it a discussion of ALL the LACs? It definitely should be the former, because if it is not, everybody can says things like “yeah, these apply to the TOP LACs but not to everyone and therefore it doesn’t apply to the LACs” and we can’t establish any characteristics or qualities about the LACs that will help to advance this line of opinion. I think that we are speaking Hanna, about the top LACs here. This is for your ‘not in every LAC’ point.</p>
<p>Hanna, if I understand you correctly, Swarthmore felt like a lap pool with baby floats and supervised instructors? Ouch. </p>
<p>Misinformation point - I concede.</p>
<p>You’re right. No one can argue against your experience. But even if that’s how you feel was the case in Swarthmore then I’m not sure extending it by default to all or indeed most students that are “comfortable speaking up, relying on yourself, and being assertive” will feel severely constricted in a LAC is exactly truth either. </p>
<p>Any Swats in the house to offer similar/dissimilar perspectives?</p>