<p>I am wondering does that matter for grad school admissions for a Math PhD if I try to double major in Math and Computer Science. I will be missing out on a few graduate courses in Math but am I screwing myself for top schools (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Princeton) in Math PhD by taking CS courses?</p>
<p>i recommend focusing on grad math courses</p>
<p>You’re not even a freshman yet, right? I’d say you’re a bit early to worry about it. You don’t even know what you’d like to focus on within math yet, right? </p>
<p>I don’t think you need to do the full double major if your goal is to go to a Math PhD program though. Certainly some classes will be useful, but not everything. Especially if you’re starting off with Math 295 instead of 451, you’re going to have a couple years before you get into the PhD classes anyway. </p>
<p>Had a friend in grad school who was pure math (Chicago) undergraduate but moved into CS concentration. The first year she was getting crushed by the CS folks with deeper skills; after the first year, she felt she was beginning to compete/dominate because her insight (gained from math) was deeper than people who were more heavily weighted toward coding. If her perceptions were valid and somewhat transferable (and this is not only an open question in general, but constrained by your particulars), I’d side with nubswitstubs and suggest that you focus on the math.</p>