<p>Keep in mind, looking at school-wide data for student/faculty is useless. Some majors (like bio) have enormous classes. As a bio major, many of my upper div courses had 75+ people. That’s fine for me because a) I like large classes and b) science courses are conducive to large lectures. There’s not much discussion involved in science courses.</p>
<p>However, that’s irrelevant for you unless you plan on taking a large amount of bio courses. Most of the humanities courses at Cornell have around 20-25 kids. Some people might say, “Come to my LAC! We have classes sizes of 5-10. That’s 5X smaller than Cornell’s classes. omg omg omg!” But, in the end, we’re still just talking about a class size of 5 compared to 20. I don’t know about you but in a discussion-style class, I’d rather hear the opinions of 20 people rather than the same 4 people over and over again for 75 minutes straight. </p>
<p>Class size is usually a worry for science majors who feel they may not be able to get help from the professor (although I haven’t found that to be true). I haven’t heard many humanities majors complain about class sizes.</p>