<p>kryptonsa36, that’s kind of condescending (the implication that people join groups like ESG as a crutch).</p>
<p>People have all different reasons for joining or not joining. Some like smaller/bigger classes. Some want a particular professor. Some want to hear the material twice in a lecture and in recitation, from two different people, not just once from one person in a small class. Some have scheduling issues. Some do/don’t like whatever the current ESG (or other freshman program) social crowd is. Some people want the focus in a field that a particular program (like Terrascope) provides. And so on.</p>