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Of course. It’s a far larger school. Texas offers ~4x as many undergraduate classes but has more than 10x as many undergraduate students.</p>
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25% is not a few. A percentage that high means big classes are absorbing a major share of students’ aggregate class time (often in classes with 100+ students at UT). See bclintonk’s analysis of this in several threads, including <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1286756-ivy-league-reputation-v-small-class-size-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1286756-ivy-league-reputation-v-small-class-size-2.html</a> (post #18).</p>
<p>Introductory courses are the foundation for more advanced work. If you aren’t getting significant feedback from professors, in discussions and writing assignments, you may as well be taking online classes.</p>