Walking across the campus each day, you'll get to know many of your classmates, and they'll get to know you. You'llget to know your professors well, too, and they'll get to know you. The whole college is your community. This personal attention is what many students like best when asked why they chose a private college. You sense it just walking around the campus.
Many students live on campus and that makes for a strong feeling of community and cooperation.
Faculty and students, alumni and parents really care about each other and the college. The campus of a private liberal arts college feels like a home town. At Elmira College in upstate New York, students spend several nights each fall serenading the college's president in front of his home with traditional songs. Better opportunities for extracurricular activities. Students at private colleges have more chances to participate in extracurricular activities than students at larger colleges.