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Anonymous
| How would you choose between the top LACs for mathematics? What makes one lac a better institution for math than the other ones |
Anonymous
| Williams has typically led the pack for lacs in math, but its offerings arent special and faculty diversity is about the same as other lacs. Id reason they’re all about even and there’s other reasons to look between the colleges. |
Anonymous
| They’re all roughly equal. Pomona and swarthmore or Harvey mudd if you want to go to grad school |
Anonymous
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This was just discussed at length:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1273568.page |
Anonymous
| As an opinion, looks for LACs that offer upper-level courses in complex analysis, topology and functional analysis on a reasonably frequent basis. |
Anonymous
| Look into St Olaf for math, CS, or music. |
Anonymous
| Pure or applied? |
Anonymous
| depends what the end game is - for pure intellectual horsepower, you can’t go wrong with Williams, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, or Pomona. But in terms of practical job related math, I would say schools like Bucknell, Lehigh or even W&L really weave math concepts seamlessly into the fabric of a pre-professional curriculum. |
Anonymous
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I am a huge fan of lacs. But if your child is such a math superstar that you are getting into the weeds to differentiate different math departments, your child probably should not be going to a lac. Otherwise just choose one of the top lacs that generally seems like a good fit in terms of culture, learning structure, etc.
All of the people who cite that school A has 5 more highly respected journal entries published than school B need a hobby. |
Anonymous
| The print addition of the Princeton Review includes a sampling, "Great Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics Majors," in which LACs appear. Examples include Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Amherst, Haverford, Hamilton and Williams. |
Anonymous
yeah these two definitely do not belong on this list |
Anonymous
Hamilton graduated more math majors in a recent year than Williams (based on IPEDS information) and offers the option of a data science major. I'd recommend it highly for the study of math. I like Haverford for math as well. |
Anonymous
I'll mention Reed as well, which also appears in the sampling. |
Anonymous
Haverford is very strong for math, not sure what the PP is objecting to. |
Anonymous
To complete an earlier reply, Haverford also graduated more math majors in a recent year than did Williams (based on IPEDS information). |