Those were just examples, and I am more familiar with them. UWisc-Madison would also be good to consider. UWash is no longer a safety for anyone, I think and UMD can sometimes be unpredictable for OOS. You can check math grad school rankings as a proxy and see how many of the top 40 or so are state universities that are not a reach for undergrads.
Perhaps University of Utah as a likely admit with a large math department?
https://catalog.utah.edu/#/courses
http://www.math.utah.edu/directory/faculty.php
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University of Utah general education requirements:
https://ugs.utah.edu/general-education/requirements/
The most significant outlier compared to other colleges is foreign language to fourth semester college course level (16 credits if started from beginner course, AP score of 5 satisfies, AP score of 3 or 4 gives advanced placement so that fewer courses are required).
Utah gives math majors the choice of a BA or BS. The BS has no language requirement, instead it has a higher level QI (Quantitative Intensive) course requirement which is already covered by the math major courses. So an overwhelming percentage of math majors choose the BS degree.
But completely agree that it’s a great safety for math, with a lot of opportunities for top students.
Note that a math major who needs to take a foreign language may want to choose French, German, or Russian, because a reading knowledge of such can be helpful in math research, and may be required by PhD programs.
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This is just anecdotal, but I have an acquaintance at Wisconsin doing math and they love it!
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Thanks. We haven’t looked into Oberlin at all. I wonder if Cornell would be another good reach to add.
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