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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professor quality matters if you actually get to see the professor. Yes I had good profs at State U, on paper, but I rarely got to interact with them in a class of 200-300-500 and a smaller group led by a TA a few years older than me.  At private it was me and ten others in a smaller classroom and occasionally a pub after class. Much different interaction level. [/quote]

I had a very different experience at State U. Most students didn't care to interact with the professors, so when I sought them out after class or during office hours, they were usually pretty open for questions or conversation.

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The problem is that at the flagship/top public U's, a professors' job is research first and foremost, then advising grad students, teaching PhD. level class, etc. etc. Teaching undergrads is pretty low down. They also have massive classes to teach.

They have a lot of responsibilities so they tend to be completely burnt out by the time office hours comes by. It's not that they don't want to help undergrads (although some don't like any any university), it's that they simply don't have all that much time.[/quote]

I was a graduate teaching assistant at Michigan and I was the one who wrote letters of recommendation for the undergrads, not the professor of record for the course.  I literally had no idea what I was doing and I suspect the letters I wrote weren't very good.[/quote]

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