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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know of many large rah-rah schools with less than 30-40 students in *every* class, but here are Virginia Tech's numbers:

20-49 students 46.2%
Classes with fewer than 20 students 33.3%
50 or more 20.5%

Pretty good sizes for a large school.  The intro classes are generally larger, but not huge.  My DC goes there and has also had a very responsive advisor who has met with her both virtually and in person since the summer before she even attended.  As a freshman, they mapped out her entire four years and she is right on track to graduate on time.[/quote]

If, let's say, 
2/6 of classes have 10 students,
3/6 have 40 students, 
1/6 have 100 students

Then the average is that 40% of a student's classes have 100 students. 
Even though large classes are a small fraction, they have have almost half of the students, so students take a lot of large classes.
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Depends on the major.  My kid is also at VT and has never had a class larger than 50 students, and that was just in one intro class freshman year.  She has also never had an TA teach a class.  Are you the poster who is making lots of absolute statements about state schools that aren’t even true 99% of the time?
DP[/quote]

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