<p>Are this school's class dizes really small?</p>
<p>or are they big lectures?</p>
<p>when posting the same thread in multiple forums, it is particularly egregious to have typos both in the title and also in the body of your thread.</p>
<p>That being said, the class sizes here vary from a few students up to several hundred. It depends on what you concentrate in, what year you are, and how much you want a small class dize.</p>
<p>LMAO @ "dizes"</p>
<p>I copy and pasted it, ok?</p>
<p>And everyone tells me that almost all of Harvard's classes have huge lectures.</p>
<p>6 billion people told you that? omg no way</p>
<p>Seriously, jmanco49, the copy-paste thing is getting tiresome.</p>
<p>When you see in US News that something like 70% of a school's classes have fewer than 20 people, don't make the mistake of thinking that means that 70% of the classes YOU take will have fewer than 20 students. At most universities, your intro classes will be large, and your upper level courses will be smaller, sometimes having only a few students. My friends tell me that this is the case at Harvard, and I can vouch for it at Princeton.</p>
<p>S's classes for the same semester have ranged in size from 4 to 200+</p>
<p>Well, there's a cozy little seminar called Ec 10. On the other hand, there's a huge survey class called Math 55. So you really have your choice.</p>
<p>If everyone tell you that... and you are already bashing Harvard on CC... why would you want to inquire about Harvard's class sizes?</p>
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<p>Funny reply.</p>
<p>Many classes that my daughter, who just completed sophomore year, has taken were quite large > 200 students.</p>
<p>S took a class whose enrollment had been estimated to be 37 but ended up being 270+. This was totally student-driven, just as his 4 person-class was.
Of course, if one attends a LAC with only 1600 students, there's less likelihood of being in classes of 200+; but also perhaps less likelihood that such classes as S has been able to take so far would be offered.</p>
<p>When we toured Harvard in March our tour guide said that Harvard doesn't put a minimum or maximum size limit on classes. So the class size is based on how many students sign up to take the class. So you could have 1 person or hundreds in a class. This sounded good to me since you wouldn't have to worry about not being able to get into a class because it's filled up or the class being canceled due to not enough people signing up (as happens at my D's high school).</p>
<p>and for many concentrations (such as mine), the classes never get bigger than about 30 kids. Ever.</p>
<p>What are you majoring in piccolojunior?</p>
<p>My D has had mostly smaller classes, less than 15 people. A couple were large, Ec10. Her Soph tutorials were 2 profs for 5 students. Her Jr tutorials were 1 on 1. A great deal depends on your major. She is doubling in Hist & Lit and Women & Gender Studies.</p>
<p>The size of classes is dependent on major. For example, classes required for premed are huge.</p>
<p>@weasel: chemistry. </p>
<p>Actually my number was way off. Never mind lol</p>
<p>Haha yeah, at Princeton the organic chem lecture has 250+ people in it. I'd imagine it's similar at Harvard.</p>