<p>I am actually hoping that if (very big IF 
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<p>If I’m accepted everywhere, (LOL), I’m gonna be tearing my hair out between Yale/Cornell.</p>
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<p>Quality post is quality. Seriously do you even spend 10 seconds thinking about what you type?</p>
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<p>I’m well aware Math 55 isn’t for every talented math student. I know for a fact that one of the star professors at my school went to Harvard as an undergrad and did NOT take Math 55, and I guarantee he is where most 55-ers could only dream to be. </p>
<p>I might’ve been a little unclear, but what I meant is that Harvard’s math department + faculty have a certain reputation – it’s not just 55, look at how many things they do in their classes (I know, based on actually being a math major, that they’re actually of especially good quality). This doesn’t mean there aren’t good reasons to go to Yale based on fit, but what I meant is that if it were your primary goal to study math, it’d be an easy decision.</p>
<p>No math department that is heavily reputed is so reputed for a single course offering, by the way. It’s a combination of stellar faculty and strength of program + offerings. And it’s definitely a little shallow an assessment to say “all the classes offered later are the same old…” – just because a class is called “analysis” doesn’t mean it’s taught the same way, and it takes some fair knowledge of analysis, for instance, to realize when one class is better than the other. While I’m not sure how Yale is, I really think Harvard’s undergrad math program is hard to beat.</p>
<p>Collegehopefull - The Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ spring production at Harvard each year is two solid hours of bawdy, risque, politically incorrect musical satire and horrific puns characterized by a preternatural degree of cleverness and creativity. There a contest each April for students who want to be chosen to write the following year’s production. You want it. You know you do.</p>
<p>yes, i received one in Feb.</p>
<p>Lmao. Oh, you guys…</p>
<p>^ See, Harvard? </p>
<p>We’re model students! Of excellent character and paradigm mind!</p>
<p>@ mathboy
Thanks for the post mathboy! (Lol, suffixing ‘boy’ makes it sound almost derogatory)
Well, you’re right, I’m not a math major yet ( But I’m reading up on Dedekind cuts/constructing the real num line as I type - Gotta catch up! Well. No, I have a tabbed window open with that on it, and as I type I’m - you know what I mean), so I’ll have to take your word for it.</p>
<p>I’m not sure my primary goal in my education is to study math - I’m really interested in Linguistics too, and I feel that for most students (even ones doing only a math major), with effort put in, there wouldn’t be a significant difference between Yale/Harvard. (* Though I suppose, again - I’m a highschooler…*)
Anywhoo, thanks for responding.</p>
<p>@ gadad:</p>
<p>That sounds absolutely fantastic…excellence in learning, the companionship of scholars…and depraved wonderfulness? Excellent.</p>
<p>(Did anyone catch the ‘I Spy’ reference? A lot of the episodes are on Hulu…)</p>