<p>any yale math majors out there?</p>
<p>how is the teaching quality after you get out of intro courses?</p>
<p>Math 55. period.</p>
<p>For any math majors: If you aced AP Calc BC with a 5, took some undergrad math courses at local colleges (multivariable, lin alg, diff equations), but the level of teaching was subpar - profs didnāt really teach the whole curriculum - do you need to do any of the intro Calc courses? Or do you recommend 220, 225? Also, are there any profs to avoid? Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Once you get passed the introductory courses, most of the professors are fantastic. Thereās always a few classes to avoid due to lousy professors, but mostly, the teachers are fantastic. Hereās why you should pick Yale over Harvard for math:</p>
<p>At Harvard, youāll have fantastic professors who are renowned in their field. Opportunities will abound, but getting them is difficult due to the size of the department and the skill of your peers.</p>
<p>At Yale, youāll have the same fantastic professors with the same awards and similar course materials. However, your class size will be in the teens at most in any advanced course, and higher level, more obscure courses will often have under ten students. The department has lots of opportunities for its students, and thereās so few of them that itās not competitive. Yaleās math department gives EVERYONE who asks for it money for research.</p>
<p>So, Harvard gets all the awesome math students? Good for them. Go to Yale, and you can stand out.</p>
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<p>Wellā¦ the chances are that most people wonāt have the luxury of making the choice between the Harvard math program and the Yale math program. </p>
<p>Ewwā¦ mathā¦ Iām going to major in something humanities relatedā¦ Fill up my Quantitative Reasoning category with stuff like Astronomy and Geology. I hate math. :(</p>
<p>sorry to hear math made a bad impression on you Gryffon- I think a lot of it comes down to how the material was presented in grade school and high school. Math is a ton of work, more abstract and difficult than any other field of human endeavor. Also, positions in academia are ridiculously competitive so unless one were to get a quant trading job at a hedge fund, society doesnāt really value a math whiz much (and to finish a math PhD takes a tremendous amount of intelligence and talent). But this IBM commercial gives us a glimpse of how amazingly useful the subject can be. </p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - IBM TV - Smarter Math: Equations for a smarter planet](<a href=āhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-udGE8POcZk]YouTubeā>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-udGE8POcZk)</p>