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What do you all think? Are larger class sizes (200ish) necessarily worse, or are smaller class sizes (100ish) necessarily better? Does size matter?
Smaller school = less people per body, more time to ask questions to profs and TAs, more academic resources (TA help, review sessions, prosection practical practice) at least in my small class.
I would hope so....So, larger schools have larger faculty?
For med schools, I think it does count. Faculty to student ratio is more important, though I'd say. A larger class may have more competition for research, resources, and study space but a larger hospital system and school could always accomodate a larger class even better than a small school might accomodate a small class. I'd look to Wayne State, as an example though, where things go wrong. The class size has swelled to almost 300 students, and the first year lecture hall is overflowed, and they now cas the lecture in overflow lecture halls (oh, I mean non-traditional "break out rooms").