<p>wat are the class sizes like at uiuc? are they really as big as i’ve heard?
is it easy to ditch?</p>
<p>Depends on course. A lot of your required or popular lecture courses will have several hundred; a senior math course may only have ten; many of your upper level courses in a major may have from 20 to 40.</p>
<p>Ditching: most professors do not take attendance and don’t care if you ditch. Since ditching classes is the number one cause of students getting low grades and flunking or dropping out, the professors don’t care if you do that either. Also, a hint: many professors have a tendency to include in their lectures a lot of things that are not in the books, and guess what most of the test is on?</p>
<p>they claim only 10% of all their classes have over 100 students. the rest are relatively small just like the guy above me said, depending on what course.
my belief is: a course like econ 102 or math 220, those are going to be pretty large because almsot everyone has to take them.</p>
<p>“they claim only 10% of all their classes have over 100 students.”</p>
<p>I hate it when colleges and anybody fiddle with numbers like this.</p>
<p>that doesnt mean 10% of the classes you take will have over 100 students. lets look at it this way:</p>
<p>lets say you will take intro to physics with a class size of 180</p>
<p>next you can choose what physics class you want to take. you take quantum physics, a class with 20 students in.</p>
<p>but what happened to the other 160 students from intro to phys? they took other small classes, 8 other classes with 20 students in them.</p>
<p>So, thats 10 classes:
9 classes with 20 students in them
1 class with 180</p>
<p>10% of the classes have over 100 students, but 50% of the classes you take (in this scenario) have over 100 students in them.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/faq/freshmen.html[/url]”>http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/faq/freshmen.html</a></p>
<p>my bad it says five actually.</p>
<p>Taffy is on to something because there are a number of ways where that 5% of “100” level courses comes out to below 100 students even though you will likely see 2 or more courses in your first semester where the number is well over 100 students. Chemistry is a good example. Chem 102, a required course for science and engineering majors, usually has several hundred students. However, all those students also take the lab course that goes with it, Chem 103, and there can be 25 or more different lab sections with the result that the number of courses with 100 or more for that pair of Chem classes is less than 5%. The same happens for biology. Moreover, there are a lot 100 level courses that may not reach 100 but they will have well over 50. </p>
<p>A correction to mention is that quantum physics (Phys 214) actually usually has in the hundreds because it is a required course for most engineering majors. (It is also known as one of the weed-out courses for engineering since 35% or more usually get a D or F.)</p>