<p>Sorry, I didnt read what F.Scottie said.. I basicly repeated his post. Sorry man :)</p>
<p>I would urge you, if you like California, want a rigorous education, and overlook that it doesn't have "the" name, to look into CalTech. CalTech is a very demanding school, arguably more demanding and more selective than MIT. Personally, I want to go to MIT because I live in California, and am desprately trying to go to an school on the East Coast.</p>
<p>"I never thought of Duke's math department as 'outstanding' or even 'excellent' (at least in terms of other top 25 unis)..."</p>
<p>that may very well be true, jpps. i was basing my assessment off of how well duke places in the putnam year after year, and how often it seems duke math majors win prestigious post-graduate scholarships. if the department doesn't "produce" distinguished students, it at least manages to attract them in the first place (with the help, perhaps, of robertson and other scholarships). see, e.g., melanie wood, duke '03, currently at princeton grad school.</p>
<p>"She won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Fulbright fellowship, and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship in 2003, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow."</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Wood%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Wood</a></p>
<p>I've heard great things about MIT, one of my friends goes there, not for math though. But she loves it.</p>
<p>Still struggling</p>
<p>1.Princeton(Und)->MIT(grad)
2.Harvard(und)->Princeton(grad)
3.Princeton->Harvard</p>
<p>1, 2, or 3?
At least..Harvard or Princeton for und?</p>
<p>f.scottie:</p>
<p>Where can I see the list of Putnam winners?</p>
<p>I always thought Princeton was definitely more an undergraduate school than Harvard. Harvard and MIT would be much better for grad school IMO.</p>
<p>Putnam results for the past few years:</p>
<p>Bro....Harvard, come on.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot everyone. I decided to go to Princeton.</p>