<p>Core classes at Chicago are taught by full time professors and capped at 24 or 25 students if I am correct. I’ve heard someone on this forum say that it feels like a liberal arts college even though it’s not. I honestly doubt that the class sizes at Reed would actually be smaller than those at UChicago. Though class sizes are often a selling point of liberal arts colleges, big, elite universitities like some of the Ivies, UChicago, and others offer the same class sizes or smaller in practice. Usually the % of classes with 50 or more students at those “big” universities is maybe 5 to 10%, while it is maybe 3-8% at the LACs. The student:faculty ratio at the big schools is usually 5:1 or 10:1 while the LAC are usually 8:1 to 12:1. Can you tell me that is a big difference clearly breaking in favor of the LACs? I don’t think so. And since the big universities typically offer a much wider group of classes to choose from, if you don’t want a huge class that might be there, it can be avoided.</p>