<p>If you’re considering schools like Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin, you might as well throw Connecticut College in as well. Unlike the other three NESCAC schools, Conn actually has a dedicated applied stats minor as well as a concentration track in statistics within the math major. But just a word of caution here, LACs generally don’t have the strongest or biggest math departments. This has nothing to do with the standard of teaching (I think teaching is probably much better in LACs in fact), but more to do with the fact that most kids at LACs aren’t that into math anyway and that there are only that many math majors around in a typical LAC. Thus there can only be that many upper-level courses offered each year. For instance, you probably won’t see a course like PDE or stochastic processes offered at a typical LAC, whereas that might be offered every other semester at a bigger school like Stanford. I guess there ARE some LACs that have fairly extensive course offerings in math (the most obvious ones being Williams and HMC) but they are usually few and far between. I don’t know how much of a math person you are, many people who are generally good at math but not passionate about it to the extent of wanting to pursue math grad school or take part in Putnam whatsoever should be quite happy with the math course offerings at a good LAC, but if you are the type of “math legend” kid that your nick suggest you are, I suggest you research more carefully into the course offerings by looking at the course catalogues.</p>