Somebody needs to bookmark this thread the next time the “small is better” crowd starts crowing that the only way to give your kids a proper college education is at a small LAC.
I have never heard of a large U having trouble matching up students to WS positions. And often a large number of WS positions go unfilled because departmental jobs in research, etc. pay much more.
My kids were not WS eligible and I was amazed at the campus jobs they were able to find. Research, fact checking a professors book, ghost writing articles and blog posts for departmental faculty, etc. Well paying, some were “do it when you are available” types of work, some were “show up in the lab at the following times to take a shift” but ALWAYS better both financially and professionally than cafeteria (not that there’s anything wrong with cafeteria- my spouse and I both had menial type jobs in college and they taught us tons).
I feel sad for families that assume that WS is abundant, convenient, and available if that’s not the case on a small campus.