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Originally Posted by asquare
But if there are positive externalities from your classmates in the process leading up to the job market, then we don't know which direction the causal effect of class size goes in.
Also, since job market placement is a repeated game for a school, it "sells" students based on their strength relative to more than one year of classmates. If all the students in a given cohort just happen to be weak for some reason, the placement director isn't going to try to get a top placement for the best of that weak cohort, because it could undermine efforts to place future, stronger cohorts.
My point isn't that small cohorts are bad. My point is that it's silly for people here to claim that their entering cohort, at their chosen school, is somehow an advantage relative to the entering cohorts at other schools based on size. In addition to the ambiguous effect of cohort size, it's cohort size relative to the school's resources or the school-specific optimum cohort size that matters.
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Woooooo, seems that you are attacking me. Have you read my post carefully? I am mainly talking about the housing. Smaller size class may more possiblly to make sure every students get housing. And this is a big problem in many schools. So I said it is "good news"I have never said that smaller class is better than others. Why you are so sensitive?