Advice for nervous HS Senior: Traditional Unis vs LACs

Recently graduated from a top LAC and recruited into MBB, so will speak on the pros and cons of recruiting for consulting from a top LAC. Unfortunately can't speak on the experience of LACs in general or those larger universities, maybe someone else can help you there. 

Cons:

• We didn't have an accounting/business program. Off the bat this means several of the larger firms (think EY-Parthenon, S&, etc.) were less interested in us and so there wasn't a clear pipeline into these firms. We still sent kids here because we're a competitive school and have a great alumni network, these firms just didn't put in the extra effort to send representatives to our school for coffee chats, presentations, etc. 
• We're a small school in general (as are most LACs), so it just doesn't make sense for a lot of firms to come out and visit us for chats, presentations, on-campus interviews, etc. 

Pros

• IF (and this is a big IF depending on the college) your school has a strong track record in a specific firm OR there are higher-ups in the firm that are active alumni, this can create a pipeline into a firm. This is true for us in 2/3 MBBs. We regularly send 4-5 full-times, and 2-3 interns to one of them, and 1-3 full-times, 1-2 interns to another one like clockwork. (This is a decent amount considering these are smaller schools and we have <60 students recruiting on a regular basis) This is also true for a few boutique consultancies and some of the economic consulting firms. Less true for Big 4 or the T2 firms. Not sure how you'd be able to figure this out from the outside, maybe a Linked-In cross-reference? But that might not even be accurate. Regardless, I'd say this likely applies to the top LACs. 
• We have a great network. Alumni are willing to chat and help out all the time, which is helpful to learn about firms, industries, recruiting processes, etc. This is less true for larger universities where 100+ are reaching out to the same alumni, whereas we have maybe two dozen reaching out to any single alum. This gives the alumni more bandwidth to help the students out. 

It's great to maximize exit ops, and I'm happy to share this info, but you shouldn't close yourself off to other possibilities. Especially if you go to a LAC, you'll have exposure to a wide breadth of different fields and opportunities to explore post-grad via close relationships with classmates from different backgrounds and diverse interests which could potentially be more appealing to you than consulting. Overall advice would be to just go to the school you think you fit best with and maximize your college experience (not in the go party and have fun way, but in the finding yourself, areas you want to explore, and what interests/challenges you way).