Anonymous
06/05/2024 15:03
Subject: Re:Big, rah-rah schools with mostly small (<30 or 40) classes and sufficient hands-on advising to graduate in 4?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don't buy the bs posted about state flagship honors colleges. Notice how the few posts giving elaborate criticisms of state honors colleges never name the school and ignore other posters requests to name the school or schools.
I asked before reading the whole post and just got to the end. I did notice how no one named the bad experience state schools. Hmm.
+1
That’s because they’re lying. I have kids at three different large state schools. None of them have had any of the weird experiences that poster describes - in fact, quite the opposite. They are all having fantastic experiences.
Anonymous
06/05/2024 15:01
Subject: Re:Big, rah-rah schools with mostly small (<30 or 40) classes and sufficient hands-on advising to graduate in 4?
Anonymous wrote:Don't buy the bs posted about state flagship honors colleges. Notice how the few posts giving elaborate criticisms of state honors colleges never name the school and ignore other posters requests to name the school or schools.
+100
They know they’re spewing BS and that gullible parents will buy it. Probably the SLAC booster.
Anonymous
06/05/2024 15:00
Subject: Big, rah-rah schools with mostly small (<30 or 40) classes and sufficient hands-on advising to graduate in 4?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
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