<p>To the OP: You have to admit, the last part of your post does make it sound like you’re concerned with rankings. I do think it’s interesting, though, that changes in ranking methodology caused such a great difference despite no significant change in Cornell. It shows that rankings don’t necessarily reflect actual quality of education. As for class sizes, I’m not taking any humanities courses, but my friends who do don’t complain about class size. So I assume it’s not really a problem. Looking at the median grade reports, I see a lot of classes with enrollment under 25. </p>
<p>Tsenguun: First semester engineering math lectures are often very small, around 25. I think they do this on purpose to make it easier on freshmen. Otherwise, lectures can be large, although that’s not necessarily a bad thing for engineers. They’re divided into smaller sections anyway, and professors are very accessible, so you shouldn’t have any problem at all.</p>