Now you're talking.

I've tried to get my kids to look at small liberal arts colleges or jucos for undergrad (they wanna go big-time). In small institutions you get a lot of TLC from small classes and profs who love to teach. Compare that to major universities with hundreds of freshmen to a classroom and profs on closed-circuit TV, unable to take time from their research schedules to help students.

Many profs in major universities deeply resent having to teach--they took the job for research, not teaching. The result is you get piss ant profs and underpaid grad students to teach the freshmen--the kids who should get the most attention.

$0.02

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