<p>“Stating our skepticism doesn’t mean that we’re attempting to bring up Berkeley or bring down ND. Let’s look at it: ND has 55% of its courses under 20 and 11% of its courses over 50. Stanford has 74% of its courses under 20 and 10% of its courses over 50. And yet it’s ranked far below on this? If that makes sense to you… well, okay.”</p>
<p>Look, to the person who posted that response, its wrong to think ND is better than/on par with Stanford. No offense to ND, but ND is a step, though a small one, down from HYPSM, and a few others. To be sure, ND is still a top twenty school, but not a top 5. </p>
<p>However, its important to note that though that stat points to smaller class sizes for stanford, it does not necessarily state that the faculty attention is that much better. At a place like stanford, where there are so many grad students and such a strong focus on research, its easy to see how faculty dedication for ugs could be worse than at a place like ND, Dartmouth, Princeton, or many other LAC-style universities. </p>
<p>btw, though ND only has 55% of classes under 20 total, there is small classes where necessary. For example, the intro to calc class may be large, but almost all the arts and letters courses are much smaller.</p>