<p>“You can make a large college small, but you can’t make a small college large.” </p>
<p>Pithy, but I don’t buy it. There is no way to make a lecture with 300 students small, nor to get the personal attention from faculty or that sense of community from Day 1 at a large school. That said, there is no way to make the course catalogue for 1,600 students equal that of a school with 31,000 students. You’ll have to decide what you value and accept the trade off.</p>