My Richmond Experience

Chedva
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:28:57 +0000

URdefect, I have no dog in this fight (my d decided not to go to Richmond). But what seems to be clear from your posts is that a small, liberal arts college was not for you. You are happy at a large university. That’s great. But not everyone wants to go to a large university, public or otherwise. That’s why people talk about “fit” and why it’s so important. The LAC list is not “seldom read”; it’s “seldom read” by people who don’t want to go to a LAC. It’s scrutinized by people who do.

From what I can tell, you’d have been no happier at Williams, Amherst or Swarthmore than you were at Richmond. That doesn’t make them bad schools; they’re just not for you.