Looking for small classrooms

whenhen
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:31:57 +0000

Here’s the thing, most top universities still have large lecture classes but also have discussion classes for the humanities. The big difference is, at many of these schools, the intense discussion sections are often 200+ level classes meaning that there are certain prerequisites students must take before being allowed to enroll. Many of these prerequisite classes will have 50+ students limiting the opportunity to take virtually all smaller seminar style courses freshman year. Also, if you’re interested in a hard science or math major, the non senior level courses may not be discussion oriented in the same way that a 300 level english class is.

You may want to look into the differences between starting at Oxford College of Emory and Emory College of Arts and Science since those are part of the same school and boast similar class sizes but one has virtually all small classes (Oxford) while the other has larger lecture classes for some of the more popular classes and then five person senior seminars on “Obscure Literary Figure from the 1790s”.

Also, don’t think for a minute that places like Wash U, Vanderbilt, Pomona College, and other schools aren’t just as difficult to get into as many of the Ivy League institutions. Again, what are your GPA and SAT scores?