<p>I am a rising senior in the top 1% of my class. I love math, but am also very into art & the liberal arts. I want to go to a school with a moderate size & SMALL classes w/ an undergraduate focus. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>How about Brown, Conn College, Grinnell, or Skidmore?</p>
<p>There are many more that one could name as well</p>
<p>Any stats to go with the earlier info?</p>
<p>Williams, Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Amherst</p>
<p>Williams is excellent for both math and art (studio and history). Very selective though.</p>
<p>For art I would also suggest Wesleyan, Conn College, Skidmore, Hamilton, Kenyon. Smith if you are female. I’m not sure about the strength of their math departments.</p>
<p>Holy Cross-has great math major and the school is need blind for finacial aid.</p>
<p>St. Olaf College has a very strong math department for a small liberal arts college.</p>
<p>Take a look at Harvey Mudd. It’s part of the Claremont consortium which means you get the shared resources of 5 liberal arts colleges with contiguous campuses, the small classes and personal attention of a LAC, great math, and it’s located in So. Cal so the weather is terrific.</p>
<p>I was also going to suggest St Olaf. They have a great Math department and are especially strong in Statistics. They also have a strong Fine Arts program. When we visited last year they had a student exhibit in their art gallery that was very impressive. It is an LAC but a little larger, approximately 3,000 students.</p>
<p>Regarding SMALL classes with an undergraduate focus: I did my math degree at Harvey Mudd. The smallest math class I took was Algebraic Topology: the prof and three students, including me. Most other upper division math classes tended to be a trifle larger, however (a dozen students or so…).</p>
<p>Classes in other departments (at least once you got past the core classes) were also small and well staffed. I took a course called “Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” senior year. About a dozen students, co-taught by a Physics prof and a Philosophy prof. And by co-taught, I don’t mean each one taught one-half of the classes; both were present for all classes. We had a lot of fun discussions in that one.</p>
<p>And even large core classes broke up into much smaller groups, taught by professors (no grad student ta’s).</p>
<p>Note, however, that small classes are not an unmixed blessing. If you’re having a bad day, and all you want is to fade into the background during a particular class and be left alone, it’s tough to do if you’re one of only a half dozen people or less… :-)</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, Williams, and St. Olaf are often cited as exceptional LACs for math. Williams is also regarded as exceptional for art history, in part because of the adjoining Clark Art Institute.</p>
<p>What about colleges/ universities in general that are strong in photography?
I’m looking at mid-size schools too. I know Carnegie Mellon has a Bachelor of Science & Arts (I could do both photography & math), but does anyone know of other colleges/ unis that are strong in photography without being an arts school? (I already know about RIT, but i’m not sure if I can double major in different schools)</p>