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[quote=Anonymous]When you tour, try to go on one of the days the math departments are doing colloquium. The Claremont colleges have one almost every day.
When we were deciding between these schools and Bowdoin, the importance became more on what it felt like to be a math major at each school. All three had amazing facilities for math (you can imagine how jealous I am when my alma mater UT had a massive drab gray building that could fit in an office park). Bowdoin had the most majors I believe but had the least "Community" feel-there just seemed to be classes and students and not much else. Williams had a great environment where students were talking in passing about math, and there was even an alum giving a talk when we came, which was interest. What sold Pomona for us was seeing how excited students were when DC told them he was interested in math, finding out that there's 0 department placement policies (an excellent thing if your child is advanced), a fantastic colloquium where DC was sat next to a freshman who asked a graduate student presenter many questions about their research (in a packed house auditorium too), and, embarrassing to admit but I'll say it, the very nice student lounge. It's small details, but it will help you whittle down.[/quote]

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