2 years expensive LAC then transfer to UC?

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@arabrab

Neighbor’s kid went to a highly ranked LAC as a math major and felt pretty constrained on the math front. (He’d gone having already completed multivariate calculus at our local flagship, as I recall.) Transferred to the flagship and was happy as a clam because there were so many more classes and professors to pick from and they welcomed his enrollment in a number of graduate classes that were in areas of math that matched his interests.

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<p>A student who is very advanced in math and intending to be a math major is a typical example of a poor fit for an undergraduate-only LAC, since such a student would likely exhaust the undergraduate math offerings and want to take graduate level math courses. Such a student would also be a poor fit for starting at a community college, since s/he would have no opportunity to take junior and senior level math courses as a freshman or sophomore.</p>