<p>okay so if im finding that the classes at yale arent suitable in terms of the teaching (i need more instruction from my profs, which isnt really happening...) would it be worth looking into Dartmouth as a transfer, or should I look at the LACs like Williams, Midd, etc.?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Dartmouth is awesome, with a real focus on undergrads. For Fall '07, however, no transfers were accepted, due to a higher-than-expected yield with freshman.</p>
<p>That said, it never hurts to try.</p>
<p>Sorry about your experience at Yale.</p>
<p>Matty,</p>
<p>How long have you been at Yale? If this is your first semester, you may be working from limited data.</p>
<p>Certainly the smaller LACs will give you more of what you are looking for. I hear that Dartmouth's entry courses can be biggish though.</p>
<p>yeah im in my first semester, but its not too encouraging when my residential college dean tells his freshman when asked why its difficult to find a decent math teacher that we shouldnt take math here ... </p>
<p>i mostly interested in math and science, and it seems like those are areas where the college is more interested in what it produces in terms of research as opposed to the quality of the profs, which is why im considering transferring. </p>
<p>when i was deciding where to go to school, yale and dartmouth were my top two ... so of course im reconsidering dartmouth, but im really just looking for a school where the quality of the teachers / classroom experience the first priorety, not research of the profs.</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>The largest math classes are the intro courses 3, 5 and 8 (and a student can get exempted from those courses through AP scores or placement test). THe are the largest in the fall terms when most of the pre-meds are trying to fulfill their pre-rec. However, most of the math classes on average are under 20 students in any given term.</p>
<p>I'm currently in Math 8 and there are maybe 30 students in my class section -- not bad for an intro course.</p>
<p>Math 3 may be bigger though; and Math 8 may be bigger in the winter. I have no clue.</p>
<p>how have you found the quality of the profs?</p>
<p>What I hear from all the upperclassmen is that in many of the intro level courses for math and economics, especially, the professors are not as good.</p>
<p>However, I'm also taking an Intro Physics course with an outstanding professor; I don't think I'll have many professors as good as that one in future years. My Phil course also has an outstanding professor, but unfortunately, I'm not like the material as much as I had initially hoped. As for math, the professor is decent; she teaches the material but it's straight out of the book. She doesn't offer many further explanations behind the examples she works out or the theorems she writes on the board since she teaches from the book. That said though, it hasn't been that hard to follow.</p>
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<p>Matty7589: The son of a friend, who's a freshman at Yale, was told the exact same thing, but by a math professor. Yalie went to the prof and said he was very interested in math, wanted to know what was involved in the major. The prof said, "Then why'd you come to Yale?" Kinda scarey, huh??</p>