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Can you find a LAC whose freshman analysis sequence covers the topics listed I'm this comment, or similar?

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1gviqgo/differences_in_undergrad_math_programs/ly78zey/[/quote]

I had a similar sequence at Maryland, College Park.  They no longer offer this tiny honors sequence.

I'm pretty sure you could get something worthy at Harvey Mudd.

Professors disproportionately send their own kids to liberal arts colleges.  Small schools are focused on undergrads, where professors aren't managing big labs and travelling to research conferences.

Most undergrads don't need highly specialized education at the cutting edge of research.  They thrive with standard classes, good classmates, and attentive professors.[/quote] Analysis is not ordinarily offered to freshmen at Mudd.[/quote]

Perhaps the primary reason is that Harvey Mudd has a strict core requirement. [/quote]

Mudd also isn't interested in training pure mathematicians and they are small, so multiple tracks for math aren't as feasible.[/quote] Certainly. That being said, the "why" doesn't change the "what". And Mudd is about as good as it gets for SLACs in terms of math.[/quote]

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