<p>^^ JackUK: kudos for thinking “outside of the box”. The top LAC’s are an outstanding group of schools, and the best universities (deans, admissions officers) openly strive to emulate this quality in their university-based undergraduate programs (I’ve heard a Stanford dean bemoan the fact that they, of course, can’t have the depth of faculty-student interaction that occurs at Swarthmore, but they’re trying…).</p>