<p>Moreover, when I attended back in the early 80s, the undergraduate college felt more like a small liberal arts college like Williams, Swarthmore, or Amherst. We only had about 600 graduates at the time. It is important to point out, it is not in the PAC-10/12, Big-10/12, or ACC which are mostly made up of extremely large schools nor is it MIT/Caltech. It has a very unusual position in the academic world that cannot really be described…it is like trying to explain what it takes to become a doctor or be a doctor to a person who never went through it themselves…</p>
<p>I believe the entering class sizes have grown tremendously in the past 10 years so it may feel very different…</p>