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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cambridge for math. After you decide on the University you have to pick a college.  Trinity tends to be the hardest to get into.  That's where the Olympiad kids are.  St. Johns is second but the year we applied it was harder to get into.  If you don't get into your top choice you'll be pooled and could be picked up by another college.  You should definitely visit.  Ours was going to apply to Oxford and picked Cambridge.  DD got in but chose Harvard.  10% of her 55 class were also accepted to Cambridge.[/quote]
Why choose Harvard? It is much less renown for mathematics education. Sure there's 55, but there's much more prestigious institutions that it sounds like your DD got into.[/quote]

Math 55 was replaced over 10 years ago by "Math 55" which is just Math 112, 123, 121, and 122 (real analysis , complex analysis, theoretical linear algebra, and group theory  algebra), cohorted with only first years and granted only half credit so that that students are encouraged to take more math classes later on.

But Harvard is still tippy top tier university for math.  There certainly is no institution "much more prestigious" than Harvard math department.

Some examples

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/mathematics

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-math/[/quote]
I’m sorry what? Uchicago, MIT and Princeton are better at Harvard at Mathematics[/quote]
DP, I think honors analysis at UChicago and math 216/218 at Princeton are more rigorous/challenging than math 55, but it's not a dealbreaker or anything. What matters is that they allow students to place into classes that fit them, even skipping those intro classes for truly exceptional students. Cambridge, on the other hand, does not allow this.[/quote]

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