Good pure and applied math schools?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I know that schools like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton etc... are the top math undergrad schools but I was wondering if there were any schools with a strong department for slightly "worse" (Not the right word but I don't have another one) schools, especially for somebody with my stats. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1118501-chance-me-good-pure-applied-math-schools-ill-chance-back.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1118501-chance-me-good-pure-applied-math-schools-ill-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I hear
U Mich
Hopkins
Chicago are good but I don't know others.</p>

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<p>Bump .</p>

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<p>I’m sure by ‘worse’ you mean ‘less selective’</p>

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<p>Yeah pretty much.</p>

<p>But Harvard/Caltech/MITetc… are always called the elite.</p>

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<p>Harvery Mudd</p>

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<p>Brown and NYU are excellent in Mathematics, particularly applied math.</p>

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<p>Since folks on CC constantly harped on the idea that students learn more from fellow students than their profs, it may be a good idea to see where the best math students enroll. While the results vary from year to year, I see pretty much the same group taking the top ten positions year after year.</p>

<p><a href=“http://math.caltech.edu/2010PutnamResults.pdf[/url]”>http://math.caltech.edu/2010PutnamResults.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Comments?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’ve looked at the top Putnam teams over the years.</p>

<p>They’re always Harvard/MIT/Caltech/Princeton/Duke and occasional Waterloo.
None of which I can really get into.</p>