DISASTER! What shall I do?

[jennifer]

By the way Jules, Université de Montréal is privately run, compared to UQAM that is government run!

[Jules80]

not in the sense that it receives MAJOR gov't subsidies - that's how you pay only 2000$ a year.

jules

[jennifer]

yes of course, but it's actually still private

Even official private schools receive some grants in Canada

[Jules80]

true enough

i think there's only one private high school in the province that gets no public funding...

[me]

there are lots of colleges & universities in USA that are publicly funded. but, they tend to be on the big side, many thousands of students.

University of Texas at Austin, www.utexas.edu/ has nearly 50,000 students! unless you're in very high level, specialized classes, you're nothing more than a number to the professors.

what i liked about AC, the professors - all of whom had PhD's - knew the students by name. it was a very supportive environment, mostly. unfortunately, in my case, there were powers in the administration who didn't know me. so, going back to finish after my injury was a pain. [much of that pain was of my own doing]

- d

[Jules80]

mcgill is huge, too: 30,000. but whether or not you're a number depends on your department... biology i was a number, geography you knew your profs. its probably similar in a lot of places...

[jennifer]

Well, German studies, we are 20 in my year, 65 in the whole programm, so EVERYONE knows EVERYONE!

It's cool, but at the same time, if you screw up, EVERYONE knows

[me]

my alma mater had less than 1200 undergrad students plus a handful of grad students. each classification/class-rank had fewer than 400 students. [each starts with no more than 400, and some would inevitably drop out. *very* few transferred in]

no way to be anonymous!

- d