<p>Hi. I'm interested in Smith, Wellesley, and Mount Holyoke. They all sound great, but I'm mainly looking for small classes. It seems to me that Wellesley classes are like public high school class sizes, I don't know about Mount Holyoke. I'm especially interested in how large the science classes (intro chem, bio, & physics classes) are.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>all small colleges have larger intro courses, but they all give lots of attention to students. don't choose a college based on this because they are not very different from each other. choose based on quality of courses. mt holyoke is best for chem/bio. smith is better than mt holyoke for physics/math. not sure about wellesley.</p>
<p>Thanks! I really appreciate that! Yeah, I guess Smith is good for math/physics b/c of the engineering program. I'm not a science/math person but I want to go into medicine, so I need to take all those classes. </p>
<p>Would you say that the quality is high?</p>
<p>The quality of the courses at MHC is very high. If you're looking to be Pre-Med, Smith and Mount Holyoke would both be fabulous courses. Also, don't forget that by enrolling at one school, you have access to take classes at the other. I do not know much about Wellesley, but I do know that they are not really part of a consortium as we are. </p>
<p>My largest class at Mount Holyoke has had 115 people. My smallest has had 5. This semester, my largest class was actually one I took at Amherst, which had 40 people in it. My other classes (on-campus) were pretty small. My class at Smith was only 11 people. Class size is relative, but if you want small classrooms, I'm sure any of the schools would cater to your needs.</p>
<p>This semester, my courses had enrollments of 4, 7, 7, and 11. I was originally in a class with about 20 but switched out of it, though not because of the size. I think the largest class we have is American Foreign Policy, which is taught auditorium style, but everyone I know who's taken it has said the size really wasn't a problem because of how well it's managed. I think that our professors who do teach larger sections are really skilled at making them feel smaller.</p>
<p>Also, Kiefer, just so you know, we have engineering at Mount Holyoke as well. :) You can do a joint program with Dartmouth, Cal Tech, or UMass here.</p>
<p>sort of off topic, but at wellesley you have the opportunity to take courses at MIT which can be a great resource for science/math unergrads and allows you to make connections if you want to go there for graduate school</p>