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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted on the thread about UT Austin. The value of a big school for me was that there was the chance to study ANYTHING I could possible want, get involved with groups I'd never even thought of, tons of internship/study abroad/fellowship opportunities, etc. I felt like I could really customize the experience in a way that I might not have been able to at a smaller school with a more set curriculum. I really enjoyed the big lecture classes. You really got out of them what you put in. Also there were always TA sections and office hours, which I always attended.[b] I took a few smaller seminar classes and sometimes the discussion was good but a lot of it was 20-year-olds trying to sound like they knew what they were talking about, and frankly I heard enough of that all the time I wasn't in class. I would not have enjoyed being in mostly small seminars. But one of my friends went to a tiny liberal arts school and loved it! Different strokes.[/b][/quote]

You were at a large state school, presumably decades ago, where the bottom half of the class is dull, sometimes below college readiness. They're only there to party and get the easiest degree they can, many taking 5 or 6 years to finish. They coast and bulls*** their way through. In a selective private college, full of overachievers whose parents are paying big money for them to be there, the well-groomed kids CARE about their education and READ THE MATERIAL ahead of time, and know how to form arguments and SPEAK COHERENTLY.[/quote]

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