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<p>I disagree. At the large universities, it’s usually the professor that writes the grant proposals and develops the big idea, the grad student that develops the more defined idea and designs the experiments, and the undergraduates that carry out the experiments.</p>
<p>Then, the undergraduates follow a path: you start out with tedious lab work, after a while you’re asked to provide feedback, and after a while you’re asked to do independent work.</p>
<p>At an LAC, you don’t have such a situation, so it can be harder to find opportunity (you can’t necessarily jump in on the bottom rung). In addition, you’re usually working with less well known faculty on research that’s not on a huge grant and is less likely to make a big A publication.</p>