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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you look at the top math reu, Duluth, very few spots across decades have gone to LAC students: https://sites.google.com/view/gallian-reu/additional-information/list-of-participants?authuser=0

SLACs are great, but the difference in talents and options between a medium elite university and Williams or Pomona (two gold standard LACs for math) is pretty vast.[/quote]

Which other math REUs are considered "top"?[/quote]
CMU SUAMI and SMALL are both pretty well known and important. Duluth is the best of the best, though.[/quote]
How is Duluth so elite when the school itself isn't, even for undergrad mathematicians? Why wouldn't highschool wannabe mathematicians go to Duluth for undergrad to get guaranteed access to the same profs conducting these top REUs?[/quote]
Many research programs for undergrads is focused on being exploratory/first time research. This is rarely publishable and often meant as an exposure program pipeline to a masters/phd program the institution offers.

Duluth is not this. Duluth is built on the idea of students generating their own research and publishing at a professional level. It’s alum have received various prizes and acknowledgments throughout the math community.[/quote]
My point is why don't appropriately talented students choose to got to Duluth for undergrad where they can get access to all the same professors who manage the Duluth REU without needing to go through the competitive application process?[/quote]

This is a VERY interesting question that deserves its own whole thread.

1. Duluth MINNESOTA is paradise in the summer, and frozen hell in the winter (school term)

2. An REU is just 1 or 2 professors, not a whole department. Research opportunity isn't the only valuable part of school, despite DCUM obsession. Duluth REU students (undergrads who are at the preparation of level of normal grad students) spend their semesters at schools like MIT and Harvard with larger, more challenging math departments, if they got admitted.

3. Duluth REU is the Joe Gallian REU. Joe Gallian is retiring after 50 years, and the famous Duluth REU is shutting down, and Colin Defant is moving it to wherever he goes after his postdoc, TBD: 
https://sites.google.com/view/gallian-reu/additional-information/who-am-i[/quote]

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