This. There is not 1 perfect school for everyone. My general impression is that once kids go to a school, most of them end up loving it. And all schools have lots of things that students can take advantage of. As someone said in this thread, you get out of your college experience what you put into it.
Just have to ask: was that school a public school that was mostly remote all year? The public university results are about what I'd expect, except maybe UW. Out of state at top publics can be brutal. BU no surprise. Northeastern probably needing a small class this year to make up for the big class last year. Also, did she declare an expected major? As @upstater has noted, certain schools within the school need students, others are full. Declaring in the sciences may hurt your admission chances.
the majority of 'trades' folks that i know make way past 100k these days. good on them if making bank was their agenda, relative to any 'school choice' issues that might have been on their mind in hs days. i've always expected that the folks who actually do the stuff integral to the rest of us would get recognized some day. when wacky times began a few years back, it turns out that was the starting bell for this overdue rec. at first, they all went full in, taking every job possible, thinking 'make it while u can, cuz who knows how long it will last?' now, most are settling into,
@QDOG5 Chris had a VERY solid frame in college and played bigger than his size. Was one funny SOB back in the day too. Have some great stories from his freshman year - big personality for sure. Small world!
Did you play with Leland and Vaidas?
@superjohn no sir, but they both had really nice careers at Conn.
Well, you're not the big, bad world yet... so maybe it's better to be helped a little longer.
It's actually more difficult to have a faculty member take interest and drive you. Sitting back in a big class seems easier to me. Less work.
It very much depends on the class and the kind of student you are. I excelled in small classes and was lousy in big classes. Big classes tend to favor memorization skills in my experience. Kids who could read the book and regurgitate it. More multiple choice, less essay. Nobody wants to grade 300 essay exams.
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Conn did great recruiting my daughter, it was really different in 2020 (everything was closed and still remote) and schools were just trying to get you to commit. The campus was closed and we hadn't been there so we told them no, then the assistant Dean contacted us and said he would give us a private tour. During the tour security tracked us down and almost through us out, he got a phone call from I think the Dean, and was being yelled at for doing this, but he forged on with the private tour. My daughter was so impressed she accepted the next day.
More difficult in the class itself when smaller, absolutely. I'm quite sure that you're probably more likely to succeed academically in a small class, because the attention, interest, and anxiety will motivate you. All that is true. But to me the most valuable aspect of college is the transition to becoming self reliant (that and all the social stuff). In most cases it's way more important than the actual knowledge and academics (aside from the diploma itself). A big class forces you to develop the skills to self-motivate. Will you study, work, and learn if nobody is breathing down your neck? In my opinion, that's the single most important skill in the workplace. At some point you have to learn to help yourself and college seems to me the best time to do that. For a lot of people I'm sure it doesn't matter either way. And for some people they won't be able to self motivate and they'll fail. If you know you're like that, then maybe the risk is too great and should stick with small classes. But for a lot of kids in the middle of the motivation scale, at least some exposure to hands-off large class experiences is probably beneficial.
I can certainly see the benefit to this in big classes. Not every class has to be intense.
Is this the gun fire you're talking about? Says it happened back in February. Only reason I'm asking is my wife grew up in that neighborhood and she was curious.
But Northeastern will also brag about their average test score, even though it only includes the students proud of the score. I’m with Nelson, either require it or don’t, but optional is only so the school can play games with admissions and stats.
Good question. On the other hand, my youngest daughter is a senior. Her academic stats are not as good as those. Despite that she applied to 11 schools and got into 10 (including UConn) including several merit scholarships. I think it’s the program. She applied specifically into programs for speech & language pathology.
Loyola Maryland has great undergraduate and graduate programs in speech pathology, and they are very generous with merit aid for good students.
My daughter chose a small school, and knew all of her professors. She liked it. When I was at UConn in large classes… didn’t even bother going too often. Couldn’t do that in small classes.
Interesting. I’m hard of hearing and my sister in law is a speech pathologist. My daughter was somewhat Interested in the field. Northeastern has its own clinic. But I thought the lifestyle was not for her. It’s massively in demand though. Not nearly enough people.
