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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honors college at a state flagship?[/quote]

This is the answer. Most honors colleges promise smaller classes. [/quote]

In my dd's experience, they don't deliver. The only benefits she got were housing (which ended up being only with honors and awful) and early scheduling, which didn't matter because the classes were hundreds of kids. And for whoever replied with "and they have recitation" - do you even understand what that means?? It means DOUBLE the class time with a TA. It's bullshit. It's the class time PLUS another class time because it's necessary to bridge the gap with a class with hundreds of kids. DD transferred to a school with small classes, taught by professors. No recitations. It's D1 and has deep traditions, but isn't a big football school (if that's what rah-rah means here).

OP - you need to look at schools that don't use TAs and don't have recitation.

We tripled our tuition payments to get her out of an honors college at a rah-rah school [/quote]

My kid is transferring out of a state flagship for similar reasons. We all thought the TA model would work fine but they’ve found it tedious. Poor communication, bad TAs, checked out professors. Few return emails, few show up for their office hours, TAs pushing their discussion sections to Zoom. Students register for prerequisites they don’t need and then sell their seats on Reddit and the school does nothing about it. It’s been such a disappointment.

I would hope all state flagships don’t have the same culture, but it’s worth digging a little deeper on sites where students post.[/quote]

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