<p>Sanderson will get to know you if you make the slightest effort, anyway. I sat near the front (due mostly to not having the greatest hearing or vision) and went to the review sessions, though I never went to office hours or spoke up in class, and midway through the first quarter he came up specifically to ask me my name. He has very good facial recognition, and he definitely knows who I am.</p>
<p>I believe that econ tends to be the largest course in the school. It doesn’t depend on AP credits at all, really, because Chicago doesn’t have large “intro” classes for most (any?) of the subjects that APs would place you out of. There is really no need for an intro econ class to be small, though. The classes are popular as lectures partly because of the format. Of course, I was talking to one of my friends at another very good school, and she was looking forward to a class with 150 students which would be her smallest ever. </p>
<p>Classes are the sizes that they should be, I think. There aren’t large classes for courses that should be small or discussion-based, but they don’t try to have tiny classes for courses that are mainly lecture. The econ class usually have about four or five TAs who hold regular office hours (but do not teach) for questions, in addition to Sanderson’s office hours.</p>