<p>How is math at dartmouth in terms of placing people into top graduate schools (harvard, MIT, stanford, princeton, berkeley, chicago) is there a link with previous alumni?</p>
<p>Is dartmouth math more theoretical or more applied?</p>
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<p>check out the courses here: [Information</a> for Undergraduates](<a href=“http://math.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/]Information”>Information for Undergraduates | Mathematics at Dartmouth)</p>
<p>I have spoken with my cousin (who graduated from D in 2007) several times about choosing courses in general, and she has said “Dartmouth’s math department isn’t that great” more than once. </p>
<p>Don’t know if she meant that the profs aren’t spectacular, or just that the classes aren’t popular, or what…</p>
<p>To put it bluntly, you’re not going to get into Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, or Chicago as an undergraduate here. You really have to be something special, as the smartest students here have placed into schools just below the top-tier (i.e. just missing Berkeley). But even from a tenure track point of view, you wouldn’t want to go to the very top schools anyway unless you know for sure you can handle the rigor and the competition.</p>
<p>Just worry about studying the subject first, and the rest will come later.</p>