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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first two years were huge classes---the 300 seat seminar type stuff. The smaller classes were taught by Teaching Assistants, not professors (labs and cores like calc, etc). The last two years were finally normal sized. I liked the big school because I wanted anonymity, but I really hope my kids go to smaller schools. The partying and atmosphere of large schools I feel has gotten much worse too. [/quote] My kid is at a school ranked in T40 with only 6K undergrads. A few classes might be 100-200 students (think large stem classes like Bio101/chem101/calc 1, chem and bio might be 250) but they have discussion sections with 12 students for 90 mins each week as well as labs. Those extremely small discussion sections allow students to get the 1-1 attention to understand material. But outside of those freshman stem courses, classes are 20-40 students for everything else. My kids have all found that really helpful. [/quote]
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