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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll throw my knowledge into this. I am an academic in an area adjacent to math, so this is second hand.

From what I’ve heard, math PhD admissions is all about taking hard courses and getting good recommendation letters. Surprisingly, research doesn’t matter as much because real research is too hard for most undergrads.

So, your kid should go somewhere where they can take lots of advanced courses, impress the professors in those courses, and get them to write excellent recommendation letters. Keep in mind that applicants to top programs are usually expected to have completed graduate courses in the core areas of math, so you should ideally be taking grad courses starting sophomore or junior year.

If you want an LAC, this is possible through consortiums at the following: Claremont Colleges, Tri-Co colleges, Amherst+Smith? (not sure on that one). Williams and Reed don’t have consortiums, but they do run advanced courses regularly. Wesleyan has its own PhD program, so there’s that too.

Again, this is for pure math. I think that expectations are slightly lower in applied math and statistics.[/quote]
Reed hardly ever has graduate level mathematics course; it's seriously just a [b]hard[/b] program that filters many from the analysis course and continues past their qualifying exam.[/quote]

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