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Anonymous
Additionally, Haverford students can take mathematics graduate courses at Bryan Mayr and upper level electives at UPenn. |
Anonymous
| *Bryn Mawr |
Anonymous
Highly disagree. There's a significant difference into going into a Pomona-style math department where you have mostly pure math, some applied, and almost no stats but have access to another department for statistics and applied math (Harvey Mudd and CMC) than going to a college where they may not even have a statistics concentration. |
Anonymous
cmon haverford and hamilton are in an entirely different tier (lower) than the aforementioned schools |
Anonymous
St Olaf is a good school, sure. But a “top” school? Nope. Clearly not. |
Anonymous
| For math, it’s one of the best lacs. Better than Carleton |
Anonymous
As another poster noted, for math it absolutely is. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#math shows St. Olaf sending more alums on to get PhDs than any LAC besides Harvey Mudd, and more than many top R1s. I have a good friend who's a stats professor at Berkeley who absolutely lit up when I asked him about St. Olaf, and said that at St. Olaf they were doing "really interesting work". I'm not a mathematician, so I don't really know how to parse that, but it's well respected by people who know what they're talking about. (My kids ended up somewhere else, but I came away from our time looking at it convinced that it's way undervalued, and should be a likely on many more students' lists, regardless of major, but especially if they're interested in math / science.) |
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