<p>"Or why not find a university that doesn’t use TAs very often so you can be taught by the professors themselves? "</p>
<p>That is also an option. But be careful, you may get what you wish for. D1 had an experience at her LAC when she went to prof for help on a particular topic, then he deliberately put a question on the test on the precise point that he knew, through their help session, that she was bad at. If there had been a TA to go to instead, this would not have happened.</p>
<p>Usually where TAs are used it’s for recitation sections, extra help; not the lectures. So far as I know.</p>
<p>But I thought this thread was more whether, given a grad school, it’s better to have a high ranked one. Not whether it’s better not to have a grad school at all. That’s a valid discussion, but maybe for a separate thread. I though frequently where there’s a grad school there is the TAs; kind of a package deal of the genre. But maybe I’m mistaken.</p>