<p>S is a sophomore OOS non-honors student. He has always had a discussion section for his large lecture classes, and he hasn’t been able to retake quizzes. (I’ll have to tell him about PSYC 100 ;).) In some classes attendance has counted towards the grade and in some it hasn’t, but I don’t think this is particularly an issue: if kids don’t want to show up, then it will presumably be reflected in their grade anyway. As Mwallenmd says, this is college, not high school.</p>
<p>As a counter-example, the fall of his freshman year two of his classes (an intermediate Spanish class and a required English class) had around 20 students in them, smaller than his high school classes. </p>
<p>It probably is easy to “slide by” (i.e. pass) some courses, but in his experience you have to work hard (and show up!) to get As. I imagine the same could be written about most big state schools. He has found most of his professors to be very good and also very willing to help students one-on-one, to a much greater degree than he anticipated. UD is large in terms of the number of students, but feels much smaller, both in the physical size of the campus and the individual attention that the students get.</p>