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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends at private schools tended to have a smaller, more personal experience.  I wanted to go somewhere that had lots of choice and lots of people, so I went to a big public.

I endured 600 person lectures, but I think that was ok for me.  I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17, so it was best to have lots of decent quality options for courses of study.  [/quote]

That perspective has always confused me.  In the long run, would having access to 2000 courses at Yale for undergrad vs. 4000 at UCLA make a major difference? Even small LACs offer 500-1000 courses annually, which rotate around each year. One only takes 30-50 courses to graduate, depending on the school. Isn't there a threshold where each additional class offered means less and less? [/quote]

Here is how it matters:

1. Well, when you don't know what you want to do, you don't know which matter.

2. When I was in grad school, I met plenty of people who had run out of advanced courses in their field by senior year.

3. At my elite private, by grad school I was taking a nontrivial number of lower-level graduate classes, which would not have been available at a small college.[/quote]

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