Let me try to make myself clearer. In our experience, our student was asked to be the research assistant for their chemistry professor during the second semester of freshman year at the LAC. This class was a gen ed Chem 201 for a student who was planning on majoring in Economics. Because of this prof and and the research ended up not only majoring in Chemistry but pursuing it as a career. Our Junior at a University has not had the same type of opportunity.
Yes, but this is just based on two examples. This is why I wanted to get other input. outside of the chance to do research, we have found the mid-size University offered everything we were looking for and beyond the LAC.