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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to do research, go to where the research actually happens. LACs are great for certain subjects where they aren't expected grad coursework or sophisticated research. Mathematics grad school will expect graduate-level courses completed before you finish undergrad[/quote]

And this is relevant to OP's complaints about physics and...history? English? OP can't really remember...at a supposed real-world LAC that is definitely not a figment of his imagination.

When you start a new thread about math students who dream of doing a Ph.D. at Princeton, then perhaps we can advise on where they should go for undergrad. [/quote]
Physics is very similar-not in terms of graduate study, but you need very strong research and access to a few grad level math courses if you want to get into a top program, especially for theoretical. This is easier to achieve a top research university.[/quote]

You will not run out of advanced math or physics courses at any top LAC. The notion you have to take grad classes to get into a top grad school is laughably misguided. [/quote] I know from personal experience of someone doing a PhD in theoretical physics at a top uni who had some catching up to do in order to get on to the level of his peers despite taking grad courses in undergrad. His research mentors assumed he had a background even more extensive than the one he had, which itself included plenty of material that's graduate level at most schools.[/quote]

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