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[quote=Anonymous]Kids can be happy and successful in a variety of environments.  With a few exceptions.

The biggest advantage of a big school for every student is the ability to continually progress to a degree with a wide variety of majors.  That is a huge advantage.

If your kid attends a large school - say for example, a Big10 sized school (30,000 - 50,000), they can explore a very wide variety of majors particularly as a freshman/sophomore, take and retake classes if necessary, and keep moving forward.  You cannot do that at a small school.  Simply put - needed classes are not offered every term at small schools.

This is a very big deal when you start looking at required prerequisite classes to keep advancing.  Need a 3.0 or better in Organic Chem 210 and didn’t get it or the class was full Fall term and you couldn’t register?  See you next Fall.  But, but I need that class as a prerequisite for my Bio that is only offered next Fall.  Darn. Better switch majors then.  Whereas a big school will offer the same class again in the Spring term.

The flexibility of big schools is a great benefit for students.

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