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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But I had small classes, a terrific honors program, and never had a grad assistant for an instructor. (Ivies use GA instructors too, of course.) [/quote]

FWIW I went to a large state university and had a similar experience. I was in the Honors program and had amazing instructors with a passion for teaching. I had only a couple large lectures (Psych 101) and even then was able to get a personal experience by taking the time to talk to profs in their office hours. (I did test out of some of the large lecture type classes with AP credit.) I remember having TAs for a couple French classes, but thye were good and the main point was conversation and they were fluent. I did have TAs for lab sections. Once I got into my upper division major classes I had small classes all taught by mostly wonderful profs. A couple duds, but do small l/a colleges have NO duds? I doubt it. And those were the profs who wrote my grad school recommendations, not TAs.

There are definitely profs at large universities who are only interested in research and not teaching. But IME, they did not teach much, and in general the vast majority of profs were kind and patient teachers who loved their subject matter.

Anyway, my only point is that for a certain type of student, who is self-confident and willing to put themselves out there and take advantage of the resources available at a large school, you can get an excellent education at relatively low cost.

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