Class Size

[Sam_Jackson]

@486hunter: Cool! Just wondering which percentile you will be in. LOL! ;-)

Sam.

[stupidolive]

Columbia is 22

[486hunter]

Originally Posted by Sam_Jackson

@486hunter: Cool! Just wondering which percentile you will be in. LOL! ;-)

Sam.

As long as I'm in the top three! Seriously though, I think it's good to be a member of a sizeable cohort -- there's a lot of learning to be done from your classmates. I'm doing the econ core so hopefully I can learn from the econ folks!

[Sam_Jackson]

@486hunter: LOL. Indeed! I think small cohorts have their advantage; everyone knows your name; better attention. However large ones also, like you mentioned, have their pluses. Either way you'll have a great time at a great place man! Hope to join Berkeley in the coming years! Maybe then I can take guitar lessons from the Satch man in San Francisco!

Sam.

[frankcw]

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.

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?

[asquare]

frankcw, if you go back and look at my post which you quoted above, you will see that I quoted and was replying to something someone else, not you, posted. That person said, "in the job-market i think a smaller cohort is better" and that is the statement I was disagreeing with.

My first post was in response to your message. You didn't say anything about housing, and I explained in that post why I 1) don't think smaller is automatically better and 2) don't think it makes sense to compare class sizes across schools in an absolute sense. But disagreeing with you doesn't equal attacking you

[buckykatt]

Originally Posted by Fulbrighterpak

Brown incoming class is 13....for next year..

Wow! Isn't it usually more like 20? Is the "slowdown" in the economy starting to hit even the private schools?

[Golden Rule]

Originally Posted by buckykatt

Wow! Isn't it usually more like 20? Is the "slowdown" in the economy starting to hit even the private schools?

From what I've heard, Brown wanted to fully fund everyone this year, whereas it hadn't in the past, and thus it has a smaller class size.

[mogelsworth]

UVA is 24

[econyun]

Originally Posted by reactor

U of Toronto had 2006 entering class of 12 people and a year after only 6 remained.

what happened??