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DRab, I believe that you misunderstood my point. Just because one pays $40K to attend an does not mean that there will be no possibility of being in a course taught by a TA. These days, TAs are part and parcel of the operation of colleges.
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<p>This I disagree with. They are part and parcel of only a subgroup of colleges, namely the research universities. </p>
<p>Look at the elite LAC's. They use very few TA's (in fact, many use none at all), for the simple reason that they have very few graduate students in the first place (and in fact, many LAC's have none). In fact, this has always been one of the LAC's main selling points - that you are going to get intimate contact with professors. Not TA's, but actual professors. </p>
<p>So the point is, anybody who wants to maximize his exposure to profs and not TA's, the answer is simple - go to Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, or one of the other elite LAC's.</p>