<p>but is Caltech a good school for someone who's planning to Major in Computer Science and Mathematics?</p>
<p>Other than the school in my username.. I'm considering Caltech as well.</p>
<p>Yes. Both might be difficult, though that depends on how smart you are.</p>
<p>Ok, if we define smart as being non-quantitative…(for the most part)</p>
<p>I work great under pressure
Have a high aptitude for both math and computer science</p>
<p>If we go to the classroom…</p>
<p>The teachers compare me to some amazing mathematicians they’ve had, who go on to Yale, Harvard, MIT.</p>
<p>“amazing mathematicians”</p>
<p>What class is this? Your information was pretty non informative. Also, what is your purpose for telling us this? Do you want to know if CS/Math double major is possible for you? </p>
<p>CS and Math is a common double major among math majors and the more theoretically minded CS majors. Both majors are fairly theoretical, and share a lot of overlaps. They’re also fairly difficult, and unless you’re USAMO, there’s no way of telling how well you’ll do until you get here.</p>
<p>By “amazing mathematicians”, do you mean “top high school math students”?</p>
<p>Yes, they were top high school math students. All went on to yale, princeton, or harvard. I’ve even had the pleasure of meeting a few, and they are amazing.</p>
<p>I will be USAMO. If I take it this year, I know I’ll qualify. Next year, I’ll qualify.</p>
<p>caltech is so far below your level that you will be bored to tears, o royal god of math</p>
<p>lol, nice sarcasm. Math is impossible to bore me to tears. Not trying to be arrogant, but know I could qualify this year. Caltech is either at or above my level.</p>
<p>Then what are you asking us here?</p>
<p>If you wish to know if the classes will challenge you intellectually, you’re free to look up what typical problem sets are like.</p>
<p>math.caltech.edu</p>
<p>If you want to know if we regularly deal with kids who are “amazing mathematicians who went on to Yale, Harvard, and another prestigious liberal arts school” then no. There’s only a few in every class. We usually only get one Nobel winner every other class, so we don’t meet amazing mathematicians often. No one respects a field that doesn’t get awarded Nobel prizes :D. For me, I only meet one when he’s passed out on my couch. I meet another one when he’s taking advanced mandarin and not singlehandedly destroying the Putnam. Not being an amazing mathematician myself, I also often get helped by some other amazing mathematicians, though maybe they don’t count, since one of them is going to Wall Street, the other one is in applied math (obviously not real math) and the third is a girl 
(xkcd says girls can’t do math, and we all know xkcd can’t be wrong).</p>
<p>Ok, thanks.</p>
<p>Actually, from what I’ve heard from math/CS majors- Caltech is an alright place to do math/CS. It’s strong, but I believe MIT is better. But I’m not a math/CS major, just word on the street.</p>
<p>There are quite a few complaints that the CS major here is lacking in programming courses and that the math major doesn’t quite get you to the grad schools that you’d like compared to other undergrad institutions.</p>
<p>I read the last post here while taking a break from working on a theoretical CS set, so I felt compelled to reply. : )</p>
<p>I’m guess I’m not the best judge of things because I’m just a sophomore, but from what I’ve heard CS at Caltech includes more courses in theory it does at other schools. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Many people, like me, who do CS here are also very interested in discrete math and probably don’t object to the idea of taking lots of courses in computability and algorithms. </p>
<p>Earlier tonight I overheard some junior year CS majors talking about how they’re “afraid” to put in the work required from one of the hardest courses here in programming (a graphics class in which each set involves reading a current paper on graphics research and implementing the methods discussed), so if you want to you will definitely have the option to take intensive programming classes. Here’s our full [course</a> listing](<a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/catalog/courses/listing/cs.html]course”>http://pr.caltech.edu/catalog/courses/listing/cs.html) for cs.</p>
<p>quello should actually be the one talking about this, not me…</p>
<p>… Wow. That is one impressive Course Selection.</p>
<p>and I love discrete math. I tend to go on the pure side of math more often than the applied.</p>