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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think anyone with a kid in the UC system knows the claim of 1:18 is flat out false.

I also went to HYS and I don’t believe those numbers. I’m sorry, but they are fake. [/quote]

I think that you may be misinterpreting the student: faculty ratio numbers as being directly related to class size. Is this correct ? Can you expand on your claim that the student:faculty ratio is false ?

The UCs report significant percentage of classes of 50 or more students (UCLA--23%; Berkeley--21%; UC-San Diego--24%; UC-Davis--31% of classes have 50 or more students; UC-Irvine--23%; Harvard--10%; Dartmouth--6%; Northwestern--6%; UChicago--6%; Duke--7%; Rice--7%)[/quote]

The PP seems to be claiming that the faculty ratio is reflective of the relationship between faculty and students at national universities. That’s deeply misleading. There is no way anyone with a kid in the UC system believes their kids get any significant faculty exposure there, particularly in the first two years.

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