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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math 55, which cannot be less rigorous than UofC honors analysis, covers most of the undergraduate math curriculum (100 level courses at Harvard, already pretty hair raising stuff) but does not delve in any depth into graduate topics (200 level courses, the cliffs of insanity). There's just no way honors analysis is harder than that, so it's an exaggeration to say it would be a graduate class at most schools, unless you're thinking of schools like Montclair State.

HOWEVER, not a single LAC in the country offers the equivalent of Math 55 or honors analysis. They are extremely accelerated classes for a small sliver of the national undergrad population. Those kids didn't go to LACs. So UChicago booster is right in that respect.[/quote]
They’re correct, but a student that strong in math, should just start in graduate courses. Math 55 makes sense, but the Uchicago class seems like a borderline incoherent offering when they have a graduate department in mathematics that would set up a precocious student in mathematics anyway.[/quote]
+1, I don't really see the point. If a student is that advanced, move on?[/quote]

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