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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Virginia Tech and graduated within the last 3 years. My intro to econ classes had about a 120 capacity, but probably only about 75 students routinely showed up. I took the "agricultural" economics though. My intro to chem lecture probably had 175-200 students and it was capped at 25 or so for the labs, which were taught by TA's but my professor only missed 2 or 3 labs the entire semester. My bio class was roughly the same size but I did not have to take bio lab. The biggest class that I had was probably about 300, I think intro to sociology or something. [/quote]

PP here. I do want to add that once my core requirements were fulfilled and I was in my major-specific classes, I never had a class taught by a TA (actually only my chem lab was taught by TA) and my class sizes never exceeded 40-50 absolute max and averaged 15-25. So once you really get into the nitty gritty of college (upper sophomore, junior and senior years), class sizes were a non-issue. Even before that, I didn't mind the large lectures at all. The people who would otherwise make that type of environment disruptive don't show up except for exams. [/quote]

+1 also went to VT - but a little longer than 3 years ago, haha.[/quote]

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