<p>How Big are classes at Cal Poly more specificly the Pre-Med classes such as Gen Chem, Organic, Bio, Physics for life science</p>
<p>please give me an estimate of how many people are in each class</p>
<p>chem 127,28,29-
Phys 121,22,23-
chem 316, 17, 18-
bio 160, 61, 62- </p>
<p>one of the factors in my decision is class size the UC’s that accepted me have a class size of about 300. i wanna see how Cal poly compares</p>
<p>Class sizes for these classes at Cal Poly is 34 students for lectures. Labs are 11-12 students per lab. The calculus class my daughter was in this year had 24 students total. The professor knew all their names and was available for help.</p>
<p>My child and I were at the open house for accepted students and toured the chem and physics labs. Class size was addressed. The largest class for chem and biochem majors is general chem and it holds 99 desks. We were in the actual classroom. It is the biggest class as general chem is also a general ed requirement for non science majors. The room was set up like a small auditorium with the back rows elevated and a large screen in the front. </p>
<p>After that the classes get progressively smaller and the lectures are multiples of the lab sections. Example-if the labs hold 16, then the lecture may have 32 or 48. BUT, 99 is the largest class size.</p>
<p>Our tour guides were students-a couple of seniors and a recent graduate. They stressed that 99 is small relative to the classes at UCLA, UCSB etc. From other parents who have kids at the UC’s I have heard the same thing.</p>
<p>I thought you said you were still a high school junior?</p>
<p>I had asked this in an earlier post, as well. I’m confused! <------???
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Socal70 said:</p>
<p>I thought you said you were still a high school junior? **</p>
<p>My older son at CU Boulder had the opportunity to do a RAP program. (Similiar to the LLC at CP) During freshman year, his classes that would have been 300 were only about 15 and in the dorm. Does UCB have anything like that?</p>
<p>One of the reasons I loved CP is the class size, especially for a state university. My S’s business classes will be about 35 students and the professors give the kids their cell phone numbers. You would NEVER get that at a UC.</p>
<p>The one thing good about Berkeley if you do decide to go is that I have heard that it receives the most money of all of the UCs, followed by UCLA and UCSD. I’m not sure that is true though. My friend’s daughter is graduating from UCLA in June and she can’t wait to leave. All of her classes have been severely impacted, especially the Senior Seminars.</p>
<p>My son is a business major and has had a few classes (bus law and econ) that were 200+ students and one GE that was 500+ students.</p>
<p>Yeah, they tend to cap off the classes you need for your major at relatively low numbers, and they’re pretty firm about it. This can be nice, since you get to know your teacher better and I personally like smaller classes rather than huge lectures. However, it can also be frustrating because it can make it nearly impossible to get into some classes that you need. An example is general psychology. This is a GE class, and this past winter quarter they were offering several sections, one of which happened to be a 500 seat lecture. I registered for classes on the last day because that was my rotation that quarter. I was number 83 on the waitlist. Something really needs to be done about this.</p>
<p>my son was in that psych class. 3 professors rotated teaching it. my son actually likes large classes but 500??? that’s a bit much.</p>
<p>The OP is a junior. he is always on the Davis site showing his stats and asking for his chances. It is his “dream school”. Not sure why he is acting like he was accepted now?
Something isn’t right…</p>
<p>my “decision” wasnt my decision to go there. its my decision to apply there. i made this thread initially thinking i dont wanna apply to CP if it has huge classes like UC’s because atleast the UC’s have better premed oppurtunities. </p>
<p>as for applying there. it nice how there are smaller intro science class than the UC’s. biggest at CP around 100 wheras at UC’s 300-600</p>
<p>Yikes! I’m disturbed by the Psych class with 500 students. I wonder if there’s a different (smaller) Psych class for Psych majors. Obviously the upper division classes will be smaller, but I hate to think of this being my D’s first experience in a class in her major. This is probably a question for her department chair…maybe there’s a freshman level psych class that fills the requirement but isn’t quite so big, and so loaded with kids just trying to fill their GE list.</p>
<p>A quick and easy way to gauge class size is to check the class schedules on PASS [Plan</a> A Student Schedule](<a href=“http://pass.calpoly.edu/init.do]Plan”>http://pass.calpoly.edu/init.do)</p>
<p>Courses with a large section (100+ students) will usually also have several smaller sections as well (25-40). </p>
<p>That Psych class you guys are talking about is likely PSY202, it’s capped at around 300. There is a lecture component which everyone attends together, and also a Discussion component which is broken into groups of 20-25.</p>
<p>I’m not too worried about large class sizes at CP. Sure there will be a few G.E’s here and there with 100+, but for your major/support classes, it will be generally lower than 50 at most. C’mon, CP is known for learn by doing with lower class sizes.</p>
<p>It was PSY 201 and the lecture enrollment was 507.</p>
<p>“one of the factors in my decision is class size the UC’s that accepted me have a class size of about 300. i wanna see how Cal poly compares” </p>
<p>the UCs that accepted me???, you are rignt momofmv something defnitely is not right–</p>
<p>This is exactly the statement that baffled me. </p>
<p>crunch said:</p>
<p>“one of the factors in my decision is class size the UC’s that accepted me have a class size of about 300. i wanna see how Cal poly compares” </p>
<p>**the UCs that accepted me???, you are rignt momofmv something defnitely is not right-- **</p>
<p>I think he is harmless. Just a kid who really wants to know that he is on the right track for the colleges he likes. I think he wasn’t getting the info he wanted, so he said he was accepted and acted like a senior. I hope he learns that honesty is best.</p>
<p>OP: IMO, I would chill out if I were you. You still go half a year before you actually get started on your CSU applications. Don’t think about college ahead of time and just focus and finishing out your spring quarter/semester grades solid and perhaps a SAT/ACT retake. Maybe volunteer or take a summer class at a local community college. Even after you submit your application, it’s going to feel like all eternity waiting to hear back. I would take up a hobby or something so you’re not so tense on college admissions stuff. But seriously, chill out for now.lol.</p>
<p>My son at Boulder had a few really large classes: 300 students, but his recitation class was about 20 students.</p>
<p>Another idea. The Business School at CP has the Green Light Program. If a student qualifies with Math scores, they can take B-school classes the first year that they normally would take the second year. When I watched the video, the student said that she went this route and then took her GE classes during study abroad. That way, she did not have to take the classes with 300 students. Maybe the other majors have a similiar program?</p>