As a senior at a smaller high school in rural Pennsylvania, the idea of having a class with 100+ does not seem promising to me right now. I am currently 1 of 7 students in my AP Biology class and only one of my classes has 30 people in it.
I have read the statistics of what they claim the class sizes to be, but I’m not sure. I need to get high grades right from the start in college in order to have a shot at acceptance into dental school. The biggest concern I have is the proffesor not knowing me when they grade my assignments, and look at me simply as a number.
Any response would be greatly appreciated, thank you
Well, if you do your work properly and correctly, that would have no effect on your grade…
Anyway, my biggest class here has been about 300 people; my smallest, four to eight people (they showed up intermittently). Grading isn’t a problem. Big classes often have smaller recitation sections, and the TAs in those will be doing the grading of your assignments anyway. Exams might be by ScanTron, no human intervention necessary. Just consider your learning style: can you pay attention well in big lectures? I don’t find it troublesome but some people do.
My son is a freshman in Smeal (as much as any freshman is in Smeal anyway). He has 4 classes next semester. The current number of students registered in each class is 300, 312, 594 and 700. Fairly certain that no instructor will know who he is at the end of the semester. If this environment won’t work for you, you may want to reconsider.
I’ve never been one to worry about large classes until now. My main priority is to get high enough grades my first two years to be very competitive for Dental school admission. This requires a lot of math/science and at times I fond myself not able to grasp a concept and I’ve always had someone to help me through it. I’m worried I won’t find that at PSU, where as many students are happy to just get their diploma. Ultimately this is a stepping stone for me.
Plenty of other people want high grades too.
Getting help is what office hours, tutoring, lab assistants, teaching assistants, and classmates are for. Really, you’ll have plenty of resources at most schools. PSU graduates hundreds of pre-meds, engineers, future academics, whatever…every year.
Class size can obviously be a concern for some people. But grades are grades no matter if it’s a TA or a professor doing the grading. If you want a relationship with your professor, go to office hours, stay after class to ask questions, or take that one Spanish class I had where six people showed up on average. 
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