<p>How strong is this department at Harvard? </p>
<p>(From a prospective 2007-2008 applicant)</p>
<p>How strong is this department at Harvard? </p>
<p>(From a prospective 2007-2008 applicant)</p>
<p>Quite strong. What other colleges are you looking at?</p>
<p>Harvard's mathematics department in general is one the best in the nation.</p>
<p>See the link below for more about applied mathematics at Harvard. </p>
<p>There are plenty of sublinks to follow from that page.</p>
<p>smder99 I have a good friend who is majoring in Applied Math and loves it, although he says it is grueling and gets four hours of sleep a night. Let me know if you want to speak to him (PM me), I can give you his AIM.</p>