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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math is the largest major at Amherst (sometimes alternating for 2nd with economics), [b]and advanced students can take graduate classes at UMass. [/b][/quote]

This is important as some math students need more than is offered by the typical LAC curriculum. One reason that OP's student should give serious consideration to U Chicago or any other National University.

How many math major at Amherst College ? TIA[/quote]
You wouldn’t have this issue at Pomona.[/quote]
I'm not a mathematician, so actual mathematicians can correct me on this if needed. But my understanding is that the math offerings at LACs like Mudd, Pomona, Williams, Reed, and Swarthmore will be more than enough for the vast majority of math majors. If your kid is a true savant (not just the best mathematician in their high school), however, then they should consider a university's deeper grad school offerings. A university might also be preferable if a kid is interested in a niche mathematical area. But most kids at these LACs tend to get humbled pretty quickly when they realize that most of their fellow math majors also took Calc BC by their sophomore year of high school and are incredibly intelligent. [/quote] Most of the mathematicians I know where either taking graduate courses sophomore year or went somewhere like Princeton, UChicago (whose honors analysis sequence taken by freshmen is grad level), Caltech, MIT, etc[/quote]
Do the mathematicians you know distinguish between anecdotal observations and empirical evidence? Do they account for the heuristic traps and biases of the former? Also, who the hell are you and why do you know so many mathematicians? [/quote]

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