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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UC Berkeley-
Undergraduate classes with less than 20 students - 52.9%
20-49: 27.7%
50 or more: 19.4%

So over 80% of undergraduate courses at UC Berkeley have less than 50 students. Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, MIT, CMU, USC are also in the 80s. [/quote]

The statistics are misleading, because small classes are not evenly distributed across the various departments. At Berkeley (and probably all UCs), freshmen intro classes and cs /stem classes are huge.

Let's say a school with 2000 students has 50-50 CS and English majors. And students may only enroll in one class per semester. If this school offers two 500-student CS classes and 50 20-student English classes, the school can claim 50/52 or 96% of their classes have 20 students. Yet 50% of the population will experience the huge 500-student CS classes.[/quote]

Relax, 40-60% of the CS/STEM classes' students are GONE within 5 weeks. Another 20-30% of the remainder will be GONE within another 3 weeks! There will be plenty of empty seats in the lecture hall/classrooms you will be lonely.[/quote]

Not a ringing endorsement!

I still say, if the course content is important, they have to know this is not what quality education looks like.

(High school was free, and we  would never put up with 50+ size classes there). Just because it is common, does not mean it is right. [/quote]

You are not responding to the counter argument and furthermore, you are not making much sense.

The course content is important. Berkeley is known for being rigorous especially in their STEM/CS courses but many still try. Don't bother applying to Berkeley if your snowflake wants watered down *easy A) education where students do not learn much including dealing with people of all backgrounds.[/quote]

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