So for the record I'd like to take my own derogatory words small, boring and Christian and turn them around to reveal the assets of any school fitting that description. Community used to be one of those things that the whole world took for granted. By now, America has gone from community to commuting, and the former is prized, cultivated and studied to death. Impersonal public personae serve as survival techniques, unfamiliar faces are the norm and neither is conducive to warm group solidarity. At small schools, by contrast, community arises naturally.
Students are never far from their comrades, yet it's never difficult to find new people.
Even the smallest schools have a few hundred people, and a few hundred friends is enough for anybody. The stability coupled with freedom of movement is a pretty healthy social arrangement all around. Conflicts tend to be expressed for resolution rather than suppressed by fear of exile from the protective group. New people and ways of thinking blend into existing groups with ease. Failed romances have a cushion and successful ones have regulation.