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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd absolutely leave Sidwelll (or any private HS) if they doubled or tripled the size.

I pay primarily for the small class size. Size matters. Research is pretty clear that the ideal learning environment is less than 16 students per class.[/quote]

Fine…skip all nationally ranked colleges and just pick a SLAC.  Have fun because I guess your kid needs the same handholding as 13 year old.

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Handholding is expecting billion dollar institutions to have support resources? Also many ivies you can go four years without a class about 20 students, but you just won't be a STEM student.[/quote]

Don't understand the issue. Went to a T20 school. Great classes freshman/sophomore year with classes with roughly 150 students. By senior year, it was seminars with 15 or so. But what I remember as my favorite were the big ones. [/quote]
I have no problem with class sizes, but I think it is a bit ridiculous when people get on these threads and act like class sizes don't matter when most colleges are in an arms race to have lowest class size and many of the top colleges have the largest size similar to what you said of 150. Heck, my Probability course at a liberal arts college had 95 students. It's always a conversation about handholding and spoonfeeding, when I do think that the most rigorous environments are small ones where you, the individual, are challenged.[/quote]

Except they aren’t in arms race for smallest class size…where did that come from…it is never talked about as an issue at my kid’s top 10 (nor is anyone complaining about class size).[/quote]
Is your child in any STEM courses, particularly CS. There is a pretty big talk about overbloated CS departments, even in top colleges. Kids don't complain about class sizes, but they really don't know much about learning and are happy to skate around an education. Professors do care about the class sizes and do weep for their universities to decrease the sizes.[/quote]

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