I just read this: https://medium.com/@brunorigonatti/pack-your-diplomas-international-students-9248ed61b2e4
I go to a small LAC right now, and I would recommend internationals who do not want to get a PhD and want to work in the US after graduating to simply go to the big prestigious school over a small LAC. I love my small LAC, especially since I have no intention of getting into the finding work grind, and I love the small LACs I have visited, but I would recommend UChicago over Amherst and Pomona simply because reality will set in after four years. UChicago can offer many of the benefits of a small school, like small classes and such, and the small-school setting the dorm communities can provide. Yet it can also offer the opportunity of studying under unparalleled scholars: I would love to take a class with Mearsheimer.