<p>I can’t really answer the main question, however I can tell you that even with a large student body, the problems, for us, students, can easily be ‘fixed’. As you mentioned, it might seem like it’s harder to reach out to a teacher, however in my experience, I come from a small school but we often had to select at least 2 year-round courses which were like lecture rooms literally like five hundred or more in a class (nasty I know lol), and the most serious students still were the ones benefiting more from the class, even though the environment wasn’t ideal.
The thing is, and mainly with college, you have to make what you want out of it. In my school these people, the ‘serious students’, sat in the same spot every class and they were the last ones to leave, they would talk to the professors and even schedule a meeting so that they got extra help. These are the same things you would have to do even in a class of 15 students.
Also, I know someone that transferred to NU a couple of years ago, and even though he wasn’t there for freshman year, he says that his classes don’t exceed an excessive amount of students, so don’t worry about that.</p>