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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It fully depends on what you do as a major. I don't think a Pomona Physics major is much different from a Brown Physics major, but a Brown math major will do more work than a Pomona linguistics major.[/quote]
A Pomona math major will do more work than a Brown math major, I can assure you.[/quote]

This is so not true.  Brown’s undergraduate applied math is generally ranked #2 or 3 and pure math 5 or 6.  Pomona has one math program and it isn’t even in the top 25.  Brown placed 8th in the Putnam Math Competition last year.  Pomona was not even the top 25.  A quick perusal of the respective course catalogs shows Brown undergraduate courses > 8x that of Pomona.  Roughly 1/2 of the pure math concentrators at Brown go on to top 5 Ph.D pure math programs. You are so wildly off base about this it’s laughable.

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A department’s mathematical rigor isn’t based off of Putnam- that would mean Princeton would be much worse than basically all the programs where IMO winners prefer going (aka MIT). Pomona per capita sends more students to PhD programs. I’d love to see a stat on the top 5 PhD pure math thing- it also doesn’t say how many pure math concentrators there are. Typically brown is known for applied math as you stated first.

I don’t even agree with the Other poster, But this is nonsense[/quote]

Princeton actually is much worse than other schools for STEM and particularly for math. Putnam Competition is starting to reflect that.  Retaining TO has really hurt their ability to attract the best STEM students.  Talk to Princeton professors. Like Harvard, Princeton now offers remedial math. Its heritage as a destination for the best mathematicians and physicists has declined quite a bit, too.  Princeton is much more preprofessional than say MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Brown and Columbia.  Princeton has a lot of recruited lacrosse types who dabble in a few low level math courses vs. the others cited above which have a higher quotient of truly brilliant folks who go on to get PhDs. Talk to faculty.  [/quote]

Stupid, just stupid[/quote]

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