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Hi,Some students, like Sheryl Sandberg, class of ’95, the Facebook executive and author of “Lean In,” sailed through. Yet many Wall Street-hardened women confided that Harvard was worse than any trading floor, with first-year students divided into sections that took all their classes together and often developed the overheated dynamics of reality shows.I'm having trouble understanding the overall meaning of the underlined part.  Could someone explain please?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

All the students who first enrolled in the same year (eg. 2012)  were divided into groups.  The people in a group attended the same course (eg English 101) with one professor.

Jooney · Answer

Now it's clear.   Thank you.

Clive · Answer

Hmmm.

I take it to mean that each group took a variety of classes, but always as part of the same group. In other words, the same students sat together, whatever class they were in.

Such groups are often called cliques.

Clive

Jooney · Answer

Thanks for your answer, Clive.

So,

Astars's viewpoint: The students in Group A take English 101, but they don't necessarily have the same class schedule.

Your viewpoint: The students in Group A take English 101. The date and time for that course is same for everyone in the group.

Did I get that right?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

jooneyAstars's viewpoint: The students in Group A take English 101, but they don't necessarily have the same class schedule.

I intended to mean that they all had the same class schedule.

It was hard to describe this exactly, because the word "class" is ambiguous. I was in the class of 1998 - I graduated with a whole lot of other people in that same year. I took a physics class (a course of study with one professor in one semester) Many people who were in my physics class were not in my biology class.

In the original sentence, suppose I am in Group 3, and these Group-3 people would all be in my physics class, biology class, and all the other classes I took for four years. We all take the same courses and have the same schedule (as much as possible, because of course, some may decide to take different electives, and some may have to repeat a course or two.)

Jooney · Answer

I see.  Thank you for your help, Astars.

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