<p>How easy is it to get into classes, are the professors personal, and is it more than just about grades? I know that with a state school your going to get some of this, but I was just wondering how much?</p>
<p>It is relatively easy to get into classes, particularly after your first term. </p>
<p>Classes are large your first year, but that's the same whether you are at Michigan, Cal, Northwestern, Columbia, Stanford, Penn or Cornell. AQt all of those schools, you will have 200-400 students at most intro-level classes. Research universities with more than 6,000 undergrads are going to have large classes. Even intermediate level classes will tend to have anywhere from 80-120 students. Junior and Senior classes tend to get smaller (20-40 students). It is a myth that private universities offer smaller and more intimate classes where faculty really get to know the students. My friends at Stanford and Northwestern always complained that they seldom got to know their professors and that the majority of their classes were relatively large. I personally attended Cornell for graduate school and Cornell definitely had large classes. Of course, the above is true of only of popular majors, such as Economics, Political Science, Psychology etc... If you intend on majoring in a less popular major, such as Mathematics, Physics, the Classics, Philosophy etc...classes will tend to be a lot smaller. </p>
<p>Michigan as a school tends to be relatively intellectual, which means that learning is more than just about grades. A large chunk of the student body really want to learn. </p>
<p>I hope this answers some of your questions.</p>
<p>thanks, that was really good</p>
<p>I think it's sorta large, but avialable transportation to help get around campus. Although from what I observe it lacks the campus feel that you will have at Michigan State University. A comment on college click tv said the square is the campus.</p>