<p>college is obviously very different from high school and much more populous</p>
<p>how likely is it for a person to know most of the people in the same college and graduating year, and especially in the same major? </p>
<p>it obviously depends on the college…but what about places like the UC’s?</p>
<p>Probably extremely unlikely. Maybe if you went to a small liberal arts college, but even then theres way too many people and too many different classes and there aren’t a lot of activities that involve the whole campus.</p>
<p>You may know most of the people in your particular college (like college of CS, or college of engineering).</p>
<p>Im guessing this won’t happen with the UC’s.</p>
<p>lol yes I meant in the same major/specific college</p>
<p>The reason I bring it up is that I got curious after I recently read about a “controversy” over a public figure being accused of faking his years at a certain uni because a fellow classmate from the same year says he never saw him on campus (this wasn’t at a UC, but the college wasn’t exactly tiny either)</p>
<p>I felt that to be an absurd accusation because I can only remember 1/3 of my HIGH SCHOOL class anyway. And college class scheduling is much more flexible and varied</p>
<p>I only know two people, my room mate who I haven’t even met yet and someone I met on oreintation before the summer, but I don’t care i love meeting new people</p>
<p>Maybe if there’s a small program. I know a school that I wanted to attend for physics only had about eight students in the entire program. Hard stuff.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m a transfer student and don’t actually care to get to know anyone at the school I’ll be attending all that much. I see them more like as competition (within my major). I will get to know people outside of my major, tho.</p>
<p>Even with in the same college, it’s unlikely that you would know everyone. At my school, there are about 300 people in my major. I’m not sure how many are in my graduating class, but I know exactly one person who’s the same year and major as myself. When you live in different places on and off campus, are involved in so many different activities, and attend a large university, you’re not going to get to know even half of the people in your major more than likely.</p>
<p>I knew everyone in my high school graduating class of 43… Beyond that… I knew every student in grades 6-12 at my high school.</p>
<p>My friend, on the other hand, went to the largest high school in our state, and had a graduating class of over 700. There was no way she knew everyone in her graduating class.</p>
<p>In college, I definitely won’t know everyone in my class. I should know everyone in my majors, but not in the College of Arts and Sciences. I don’t really have a problem with that, because so far, I’ve ended up having classes with the same people three semesters in a row. And they aren’t lecture classes… they’re small 20 students or less classes.</p>
<p>My high school experience is very similar to my college experience, even though my university has 20,000 undergrads and my high school only had 120 students.</p>
<p>Not likely. My high school had about 1500+ in the graduating class. I knew very very few lol. </p>
<p>However, I’m in a small residential college in my u and I know everyone in my class because there’s only like 75 of us. My other major, no.</p>
<p>You may know everyone in your major if it’s small. Academic college? Maybe at UC Merced, but probably none of the other UCs.</p>
<p>I see you go to UC davis. niiice.
I’ve heard there are hundreds of psych major grads there every year lol</p>
<p>Most people in my graduating class? No. Most people in my major? Probably. I already know many of them and this will be my second year in my major… we share classes occasionally, and many of us are in the same clubs/activities. Know them well, though… nah.</p>
<p>depends on school
at a much larger school in a large program still maybe unlikely. at smaller schools more possible to know people in program. everyone in your class? still probably unlikely</p>