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[quote=Anonymous]Umich poster again. I don’t disagree UC schools don’t have issues (eg housing and class seat buying, and wow seat buying seems like a new extreme). I was trying to clarify that all top tier schools may have or may not have similar issues. Look at the previous post about VTs housing issues in 2019.

Private schools have these issues as much as public. Someone upthread mentioned Middlebury and FEMA trailers. When I toured Cornell on an admitted students day I was told some large intro classes have over 1K in the class.

A comparison in one the presentations I sat through had this information on class sizes: 
Berkeley - Data Structures Course had 1500 students (and lucky if you could get in)
Wisconsin Op Systems course - 400 students
Cornell Op Systems course - 500 students
Stanford- average CS class size - 125 students
UT Austin - largest CS class size - 125 students (source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--upJd-y_gQ)
It also references a Columbia student who had 200 students in an upper division class after waiting years for smaller class sizes.

This data shows large class size is not just a public vs private issue. Is it a top tier university issue? Maybe. Do your research and figure out what your family is interested in terms of a university education. There are small, personalized campuses if that is what you want.

For me, it’s harder to pay private school tuition rates and have the exact same issues as the typically cheaper public schools.

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