Open for Discussion: Does attending a liberal arts college really help a student get a PhD

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People at LA schools sit around writing papers and stuff and probably aren’t prepared to get a job. So they go hide in grad school.

Yes, all LAC grads are making your latte at Starbucks or heading to grad school to “hide” from the real world.

Even if they try to get an internship, why would a software company in the bay area, for example, want someone even from a good school like Swarthmore when they can grab someone from Berkeley, Stanford, or even UCLA,

You might ask the large software companies why they hire LAC grads right out of school. My kid met with a senior at Amherst last month who accepted an offer from Google. That student is a CS/Biochem double major which isn’t as tricky as it sounds given that at Amherst it’s easy to double or even triple major because of the open curriculum.