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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I definitely get where you're coming from. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a Berkeley alum, so every time someone mentions my alma mater on here, it is resoundingly negative; even though, they somehow believe that these large class issues disappear for UVA and other public institutions.

I've also had the humorous experience of being yelled at on this thread that [b]a certain tiny Liberal arts college has better research access than Caltech[/b]. If there were better forums for California parents, I'd honestly get on them even though I live in the DMV, because the takes on Californian institutions are so bizarrely wrong here.[/quote]

I've yet to hear anyone say that a SLAC has better research access than CalTech, which is actually LAC size. But if the comment is about better research access than UCB the answer is most definitely. The typical student at a top LAC will have better research opportunities than the typical UCB undergraduate. AS far as class sizes I would suspect that UVA has the same issues as UCB though not to the same degree.[/quote]
I've never seen someone so confident about such a wrong opinion. The average LAC student has like 3 labs they can choose between.[/quote]

Maybe so, but that is three labs that they are welcomed into and actually expected to participate. As opposed to a multiple of labs where undergraduates get to "look into from the outside" or if they are let in the door they are considered a burden because they are in teh way of teh grad students and people who are actually doing the work. We've been there, we've told you but you are just too dense to 'get it'. It will be your kids loss.[/quote]

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