Research Universities vs. LACs???

simba9
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:14:31 +0000

My experience seemed to be the opposite of Publisher’s. I started out at 50,000-student Ohio State, and found all the available activities and diversions kept me from studying. Since I was in a frat, that dominated everything else. The huge classes in auditoriums with hundreds of students, and TAs that couldn’t speak English, didn’t help.

After my freshman year, I ended up transferring to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which was one of the best decisions I ever made. While it wasn’t a LAC, it was a small, public flagship with only 3000 students, and the largest class I ever had was 60 people. The small size of the classes, professors who actually knew me by name and took an interest in how I was doing, and relative lack of things to do during winter outside of studying (you could either either ski, lift weights, drink or study) helped my GPA immensely.