<p>You could PM mootmom, if she doesn’t see this post – her son was in ESG.</p>
<p>I wasn’t in a freshman learning community, but it seemed to me that the smaller classes allowed for more one-on-one interaction with professors and more personalized learning (not to mention more free food :)). The con, I suppose, is that after a freshman year in ESG or Concourse, a student has to move back to mainstream classes, which are neither as small nor as personalized. But my friends who did ESG and Concourse liked them very much – if you’re even slightly interested, you should check them out during CPW or orientation, as they’ll have presentations which will answer all of your questions.</p>
<p>There was a thread on this last year ([here](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/497909-esg-concourse.html]here[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/497909-esg-concourse.html)</a>) with opinions from several students, alums, and parents.</p>