For example, does it lead to a less cohesive student body? Or, does it make classes more competitive?
1. Cornell has the largest undergraduate population in the Ivy League I really can’t compare the size of Penn to other colleges because I have only attended one. Penn can be as big or as small as you want to make it. You could come up with a schedule where you take very few large lecture classes. You could also make a schedule where all of your classes are large lectures. Even if you have a large lecture, the largest it will be is 200 people (many capped at 100 or fewer) and many will have recitation sections that are smaller and taught by a TA for more individual instruction. A 200 person lecture is still smaller than lectures at large state schools, and really for an intro economics class or an intro science class do you really need to have a class of 15 people? The whole recitation thing with a TA can have mixed results (usually depending on how well your TA speaks English). I would say that our student body is fairly cohesive. It’s not like a small liberal arts school where you wil
