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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is at Michigan. To her, it represents the whole package. Many opportunities, academic and social. Great research to be involved in even as an undergrad. Well respected. Huge alumni network for job opportunities.

She doesn’t like the fierce competition for some classes but she actually said to me, “I took some classes I didn’t think I would like all that much but they turned out to be good. And now I am more interested in X.”

It is true that as a Freshman she could disappear and no one would know. As the kids progress, many of their classes get smaller and it would be much harder to skip classes and such. Even as a sophomore some of her classes like Mandarin had maybe 20 people. She said her Freshman year was the outlier in this respect, and overall academically it was probably the least fun year but most fun socially.

She is very happy with her choice but it’s not for all kids. Other DD is at Colby. Go figure.[/quote]

Can you elaborate on the 'fierce competition for some classes'? I'm not sure what you mean by that? Competition to get the classes you want to take?[/quote]

I'm the UCLA poster but I can answer this. Often during registration there are waitlists to get into popular classes or widely required general ed classes and students have to wait for another quarter or semester to take the class.  My DC says there's always a ton of movement during the first week of classes as students drop and add other classes, and DC has always managed to get in off a waitlist either that quarter or the next quarter.  But as the Michigan poster said, sometimes they end of taking classes they may not have taken if they'd gotten into their waitlist class.  My very non-STEM DC ended up in a computer coding class and actually loved it.  Taking another one this quarter!

This is a typical complaint about large public universities.  But my sister teaches at Stanford and she told me it happens there too.  [/quote]

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