<p><a href=“i.e.%20a%20large%20flagship%20level%20school”>I</a> will typically have a significant number of top students present, although it will be a subset of the overall student body. *</p>
<p>Exactly…</p>
<p>Large schools generally have a concentration of smart kids in the STEM majors…because those majors weed out kids who can’t compete quite early on. These majors tend to require classes like Calculus I, II, III, DifEq, Physics, and Gen Chem which often weed kids out rather quickly.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter that there are kids across campus who aren’t as academically strong…those kids won’t be in your classes…at least not for long.</p>