Liberal arts college for math?

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Anonymous wrote:I know a mathematician at a public university who raves about a few liberal arts colleges, including Williams and Macalester.

Nothing special about Williams math department. Most overhyped part of DCUM.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:A concern with Drew might be its paucity of math majors, with just 8 graduating in a recent year:

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Drew&s=all&id=184348#programs

For perspective, LACs with notably strong math communities may graduate 30 or more math majors annually.

Eh just depends on the LAC's size. Many are much larger than others. In general, Drew isn't a good college, so I wouldn't recommend it for that clear reason.

More nonsense from some clueless random DCUM prestige whore.

The burden of proof is ok the one claiming Drew is an unusually good university for a highly talented mathematics student.

O, it isn’t. Especially in the face of the tool making ridiculous negative statements.

I concur with this as the objectionable issue. In any case, I believe Drew was recommended largely based on its suburban setting, an aspect of stated importance to the OP.

It's to say "consider Drew since it's suburban" since anyone can Google its location, but saying "consider Drew because it's good at math" without explaining is much less convincing since that's less objective and harder to determine from a 10 second Google search.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a mathematician at a public university who raves about a few liberal arts colleges, including Williams and Macalester.

Nothing special about Williams math department. Most overhyped part of DCUM.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Right...my child at Brown is just screaming to get into Williams...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a mathematician at a public university who raves about a few liberal arts colleges, including Williams and Macalester.

Nothing special about Williams math department. Most overhyped part of DCUM.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Right...my child at Brown is just screaming to get into Williams...

Lest there's any confusion, both you and PP suck.

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Anonymous wrote:From the other new thread.

St Olaf has a semester in Budapest, and does not expect pre-PhD pure math students to sit through multivariables calculus before covering it in abstract real analysis class.

https://wp.stolaf.edu/math/files/2024/12/IMAP-Fillable-Version.pdf

However, multivariable calculus is not a typical prerequisite for courses in real analysis or modern algebra.

The first 4 places I spot checked (MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Pomona) all set multivariable calc as a prerequisite.

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Anonymous wrote:From the other new thread.

St Olaf has a semester in Budapest, and does not expect pre-PhD pure math students to sit through multivariables calculus before covering it in abstract real analysis class.

https://wp.stolaf.edu/math/files/2024/12/IMAP-Fillable-Version.pdf

However, multivariable calculus is not a typical prerequisite for courses in real analysis or modern algebra.

The first 4 places I spot checked (MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Pomona) all set multivariable calc as a prerequisite.

I'll stand corrected then. Thanks. I'd simply spot-checked a different set of schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the other new thread.

St Olaf has a semester in Budapest, and does not expect pre-PhD pure math students to sit through multivariables calculus before covering it in abstract real analysis class.

https://wp.stolaf.edu/math/files/2024/12/IMAP-Fillable-Version.pdf

However, multivariable calculus is not a typical prerequisite for courses in real analysis or modern algebra.

The first 4 places I spot checked (MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Pomona) all set multivariable calc as a prerequisite.

My only experience is Pomona, but if you have a background in vector calculus, the math department makes it really easy to move to the next course! You really only need to talk to faculty and they’ll let you bypass and fill in with more advanced courses split between Pomona, Mudd, and CMC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a mathematician at a public university who raves about a few liberal arts colleges, including Williams and Macalester.

Nothing special about Williams math department. Most overhyped part of DCUM.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Right...my child at Brown is just screaming to get into Williams...

Hopefully they are, they would get a better education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a mathematician at a public university who raves about a few liberal arts colleges, including Williams and Macalester.

Nothing special about Williams math department. Most overhyped part of DCUM.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Right...my child at Brown is just screaming to get into Williams...

If your kid was actually at Brown you would know better than to disparage Williams. So I’ll confidently call Bull. And while you were pretending you could have at least picked a better Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a mathematician at a public university who raves about a few liberal arts colleges, including Williams and Macalester.

Nothing special about Williams math department. Most overhyped part of DCUM.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Right...my child at Brown is just screaming to get into Williams...

If your kid was actually at Brown you would know better than to disparage Williams. So I’ll confidently call Bull. And while you were pretending you could have at least picked a better Ivy.

There’s really no connection between your statements. Most kids are brown never thought of and don’t even know about Williams. The overinflated egos by lac parents is dumb when the whole reason many kids like them is their underground status.

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