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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just happy that people aren’t putting 3 at the top. There’s too many PhDs coming out of the Ivy league, let alone the rest of the T50, to even begin suggesting that there’s some extreme difference in education. Unless your kid is on the bounds and is highly highly intelligent (like top 0.001%) where they need specialized/accelerated instruction to the level of grad school near freshman year, you’re probably receiving a very similar education to others.[/quote]
Even a standard freshman course like math 2230 at Cornell will exceed the level of rigor of any freshman math course at most lower ranked universities[/quote]

Cite?[/quote]https://math.cornell.edu/lower-level-courses (scroll to bottom)

https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~allenk/courses/14/2230/

Compre this to the freshman math options at most other lower ranked schools (e.g. any VA school besides UVA)[/quote]

Post the syllabus from a VA school to backup your claim. [/quote]

DP. Very few schools are teaching a course like that. [/quote]
I'm lost. As someone with a math degree, many colleges teach vector calculus. This is just Calc 3 for math majors and is not at all unique to Cornell.[/quote] It's not unique, but it is uncommon, especially outside T50 schools. For example, there is no such course at any VA school besides UVA. Most schools only have the equivalent of Cornell's math 1920 (ordinary calc 3) or math 2220 (honors calc 3, with proofs), with nothing matching the math 2230/2240 sequence.[/quote]
Seems like a virginia issue, plus not all colleges have the same name for courses, or teach them at the same time or in the same course structure. It's actually very difficult to compare across curriculums if you don't have access to a syllabus...Typically linear algebra/multivariable is a vector calculus course that separates it from MV calc. Really these skills can be taught in anything from 1-3 different courses, and that's a department structure thing more than anything.
When I think of unique math courses, I think of Math 112 at Reed for freshman or famously Math 55[/quote]

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