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I went to smallish private schools for both undergrad and graduate school, so there really wasn't THAT much of a difference between them for me in regards to the campus culture.
Class types: Lectures for the basic stuff (ie, History of Architecture), seminars and independent studies for more advanced things. In fact, most of my undergrad seminars were capped at 10-15 students, while there were usually enough spaces for my entire grad program to take a "seminar" together (we had a graduating class of 30).
Grading Scale: In undergrad, we had the option of ABC/No credit or Satisfactory/No Credit. So, I took classes that I was merely interested in pass/fail, and kept the graded classes for my majors. In grad school, we had High Pass/Pass/Low Pass/Fail. Most teachers just gave passes. There were a few that gave High Passes or Low Passes, but they were in the minority.
Level of Competition: In grad school, most people tried to be very competitive, but most weren't competent enough to pull it off. The program tended to attract a lot of people based on where it was, but most graduate schools here have just gotten their yields up to pre 9/11 levels. So, there were a lot of people who wouldn't have gotten in if it hadn't been for 9/11.
Social Life: See above. Many people were just way too pretend-competitive to have social lives. There was a couples' clique, and there was also a bunch of us who had friends in the city to begin with. Once in a while, someone would have a party or two, or groups of us would go out for happy hour. But, for the most part, it wasn't the way it was in undergrad.
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