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<p>I’m having trouble with this part. No graduate program is going to have a preference for taking students from one of these schools over the other, both math programs are first rate and plenty of students from both schools go on to get PhDs.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to state the obvious but graduate programs will weigh your son’s grades and teacher recommendations more heavily than which of these schools he matriculated from. At either of these schools it is hard to get As in math classes but some students do it. In their classes professors see students with a wide range of aptitude and the few who are really capable stand out. Down the road the recommendations given to these students reflect this.</p>
<p>I think your son should base his decision on where he would rather spend the next four years because at these schools even the weather is different.</p>