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[quote=Anonymous]Lol, yes, of course. The school is large but of course you will also take tons of courses with small class sizes and direct attention from a professor. Pretty much all your upper level classes in your major, for instance.

Also, all these large state schools have honors programs. All of them. In most you will get an honors advisor and many have thesis options where you get a thesis advisor (my university had this, I spent my junior year writing a thesis to graduate with honors and developed a close relationship with my thesis advisor that I still maintain today, 20 years later).

I find it moderately shocking that OP and others may not understand this. I mean, some elite schools are huge with huge 100-level sections, but of course students also get 1:1 attention and lots of opportunities for small seminars, labs, etc. Going to a school like Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UCSD, etc. is really not that different. Still very high caliber of students, phenomenal professors (sometimes even better than at an Ivy or SLAC depending on course of study) as well as lots of supports in place, especially for honors students or students in certain majors.

Also, some Ivies and elite SLACs have reputations for partying that rival even the most notorious state university. I have friends who went to Dartmouth, Princeton, and others who definitely did more partying, more drugs, more binge drinking, than I have ever done. Some of them were academic, too, but some were not.

This just seems like a really naive question. Have you met people? Ever worked with someone from one of these state universities? It would take so little life experience to dispel these presumptions.[/quote]

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