<p>Yup, already looking into Rice.</p>
<p>Yea, I suppose I’m not in the SLO area. I’m in SF Bay area!</p>
<p>I’ll look into WPI and RPI. I think Olin doesn’t offer major in math and CS? I think they just offer engineering?</p>
<p>Also, Colorado College’s block schedule seems very interesting…any thoughts on that?</p>
<p>Berkeley has one of the best math departments in the country, and one of the best computer science departments.</p>
<p>I don’t believe any of the UCs are weak in either subject.</p>
<p>One warning about LACs: if you have the talent and motivation, many math departments will push you forward very quickly. Most LACs (with some very notable exceptions) have limited upper-level math classes, which can hurt you. Many top math majors take graduate courses, so don’t automatically assume that undergrad-only is all good.</p>
<p>Yup, the UCs are pretty strong.</p>
<p>Thats a problem about LACs…I’m still kind of torn. At least I have a year to decide! I’d probably end up going to a UC or a small university…</p>
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Two of those “notable exceptions” are Williams College (in Massachusetts) and St. Olaf College (in Minnesota). Williams is one of the most selective LACs in the country. But St. Olaf, even though it is nationally known as a “math LAC”, is much less competitive overall; most people outside the math world have never heard of it. </p>
<p>If you want a small school with strong math that does not have cutthroat admissions, you might want to take a good look. If UCSD is a “match”, then St. Olaf is probably a match as well, based on test scores. If you happen to be Norwegian, it would be helpful, but this is not absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>In the 1990s, the National Science Foundation did a study to see which undergraduate programs were generating the most math, science, and engineering PhDs. They looked at the 1991-1995 time frame. Over that period, the 10 undergraduate programs that produced the most future math PhDs were:</p>
<p>62 UC Berkeley
50 Harvard
42 MIT
29 St. Olaf College
28 UCSD
27 UCLA
24 Reed College
24 Wisconsin
22 Minnesota
22 Princeton</p>
<p>See tables B-3 and B-8 [url=<a href=“http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf96334/append.htm]here[/url”>http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf96334/append.htm]here[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Reed is obviously another small school to look out, but it is better known than St. Olaf and admissions may be more competitive</p>
<p>^ Those who have read the Great Gatsby have heard of it. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, I’ll look into St Olaf</p>
<p>I think I’m going to read the Great Gatsby sometime this year</p>