<p>I am a junior in high school and would like to major in Math in college. I am currently taking IB Math SL and am going to take Calc BC next year. I was wondering which schools have good math programs that aren't incredibly expensive. Any comments are greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Whether a school is “expensive” depends on:
- what you consider “expensive”
- your state of residency (for state schools’ cost and financial aid)
- your family’s finances (for need-based financial aid)
- your academic and other credentials (for merit scholarships; you generally need to be in the upper part of the school’s entering class to get a merit scholarship)</p>
<p>Apply to college’s without looking much at the sticker price. Unless your parents are unbelievably wealthy, you’re most likely not going to be paying it. </p>
<p>Thank you for the input. Could you tell me some good math schools though? Thanks.</p>
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<p>That is a recipe for disappointment, as there are many colleges whose financial aid will be less than what students often expect. April tends to bring posts from students who cannot afford any of the colleges that they are admitted to, or who are “forced” to go to a lower choice because their higher choices are unaffordable.</p>
<p>Prospective students should run the net price calculators (for financial aid estimates) and check for merit scholarships before making their application lists.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus is right. He pushes this stuff around a lot but in order to even consider a school you need to know you can pay for it. This can be done by looking at the net price calculators and looking at the percentages of students that receive aid and how much of their need is met, etc.</p>
<p>Don’t misunderstand, I didn’t mean that you shouldn’t apply to “safety” schools from a financial perspective. Once you’ve covered your bases you might as well apply to schools of interest to get an actual glimpse of the tuition. </p>
<p>Can you understand the epsilon-delta definition of the limit? Have you ever studied that?</p>
<p>If you can’t understand the precise definition of a limit, you will fail as a math major. </p>
<p>^ I love how you have just joined this forum today and have done nothing but disparaged those who made a post on mathematics. </p>
<p>If you presented me with the epsilon delta def. of a limit, I would’ve probably said “ew” as a junior in high school seeing as I wanted to major in journalism. Fast forward a bit and since I’m graduating in the spring as a math major, I’d say you absolutely do not need to understand it when you’re in high school. You absolutely do in every sense if you are going to graduate as a math major, however.</p>
<p>I only completed Algebra II in high school. Trust me, you’re fine if you want to be a math major. </p>
<p>dctalay, I see from another post that you are from Long Island. You might want to look into Stony Brook or to get away U of Buffalo. Going out of state with tuition between NY state colleges and private colleges, you might consider places like Rutgers and Maryland. There are a couple but the questions an earlier poster asked really need to be answered for anyone to give a truly intelligent answer.</p>
<p>“If you presented me with the epsilon delta def. of a limit, I would’ve probably said “ew” as a junior in high school seeing as I wanted to major in journalism. Fast forward a bit and since I’m graduating in the spring as a math major, I’d say you absolutely do not need to understand it when you’re in high school.”</p>
<p>You’re right–he doesn’t need to understand the epsilon-delta definition of the limit while in high school–however, if he were to say, spend an entire summer trying to understand the precise definition of the limit and can’t understand it, then that is a big red flag. </p>
<p>^^Even then, I’m not so sure. If you enjoy calculus and do well in it, you can probably do okay as a math major. Because at first the epsilon-delta definition may fly over your head if you’re taking Calc I, but with time more abstract portions of math start making sense. </p>