The biggest drawback is what I have seen for people who attended WilliamsCollege for example and similar to Amherst is when they wanted to get agraduate degree in engineering. They were good students in mathematics andapplied technology and science classes but they did Not have theprerequisites for the graduate level engineering courses at MIT etc andtherefore had to take three to four undergraduate courses as a graduatestudent adding one to two terms to their quest. I also saw that for Harvardgraduates attending MIT in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering graduateprograms.So be careful if you want to do a graduate program in engineering. But foranything else there are no down sides.Note some of those colleges may have a 32 program where you attend e.g.Clark University for three years and then Columbias engineering college fortwo years. Similarly for Emory and Georgia Tech. That is another way ofgetting the beauty of a LAC and then getting a bachelors in engineering.