Are these schools good for math (pure, or applied)?

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Anonymous wrote:NYU
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Harvey Mudd
UMich - I heard their Math Honors track is good?
Williams
Swarthmore
CMU

These will all be good. But if a truly gifted student - Rice, Harvey Mudd, and Williams. A math undergrad will get a lot more opportunities there than at Michigan, CMU, and JHU.

Completely wrong! Caltech if truly gifted and ready for research if you need a small college. Out of that group, really only Harvey Mudd has the course availability and research depth/clout to accelerate you, but you’ll be spending A LOT of time not doing math to finish their core.

Top undergrads in math at research universities get red carpet service and work with amazing professors early on. For special attention, I’d look at UCSB CCS.

can you give an example of this "red carpet service" outside of UCSB CCS?

Berkeley. If you’re a top undergrad at Berkeley (obviously very few students), you can get top research advisors and will be passed along by research faculty. Same with Princeton. Of course, this is an extraordinarily small percent of undergrads

How does a top undergrad a Berkeley get top research advisors? How does an undergrad know which research advisors are top and which are not in order to ask the top ones to advise research?

The professors invite them.

And how do they know who the top undergrads are? Exam scores? And if a top undergrad is approached by a professor, how are they supposed to know if the professor is "top" or not?