<p>I'm looking for schools with good undergrad math. Ignoring money, what are my chances of getting in with these credentials.
SAT total: 1820
Math: 630
Writing: 630
Critical Reading: 560</p>
<p>High School GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>I'm retaking the SATs in October and will hopefully improve my score.</p>
<p>Almost all universities have great undergrad math programs; however, are you sure you can handle a math major with only a 630 on your math section? My math section score is similar to yours, and I certainly know I wouldn’t be able to handle a math major!</p>
<p>I love math. My 630 was very early into my precalc course. I scored a 96 on the NYS Math B Regents, and am taking AP Calc AB this year. Hopefully the 630 will go up dramatically on my next SAT, because it has on my practice tests.</p>
<p>Where are you from? What kind of school/location?</p>
<p>I live in NY in the Hudson Valley. Im looking around the Northeast, but am not limited to places such as California or Florida. School size isnt really an issue and I would prefer a city environment, but the quality of the math program is my top concern.</p>
<p>How about SUNY Geneseo, Binghamton, or Buffalo?</p>
<p>I’m sorry to break it to you, but the Math B Regents is a joke (as are all the regents).
Also, if you’re interested in math, you should be doing Calc BC instead of AB, considering a lot of AB is covered in any given Honors Pre-calc class (unless your school doesn’t offer BC). </p>
<p>Are you absolutely sure you want to study math? </p>
<p>PS-your GPA doesn’t match your SAT score at all. Is that 4.0 from regular classes, or Honors/APs? Colleges will think that either a)you got an easy 4.0 by taking non-challenging classes or b)that your school has rampant grade inflation. </p>
<p>Definitely retake the SAT.</p>
<p>On taking Calc BC, I should be in the class, but on transferring from a private school that didnt offer the Math A regents, I was forced to go back half a year in the math program. I have taken all honors and AP courses through high school. My public school is kind of a joke being in a small town with a limited budget but I try to make the best of it. I have the ambition to push myself if needed. When I was in 7th grade, I had mastered most of 10th grade algebra and geometry at an accelerated course at a private school. So I am definitely sure I would like to study math.</p>
<p>dont listen to these people. cc’ers dont EVER know what theyre talking about. college math is not even close to the same as high school math. however at the same time its the same. its hard to explain. definitely go for it, rankings in undergrad math programs by the nrc </p>
<p>1 Princeton 4.94
2 Cal Berkeley 4.94
3 MIT 4.92
4 Harvard 4.90
5 Chicago 4.69
6 Stanford 4.68
7 Yale 4.55
8 NYU 4.49
9 Michigan 4.23
10 Columbia 4.23
11 Cal Tech 4.19
12 UCLA 4.14
13 Wisconsin 4.10
14 Minnesota 4.08
15 Cornell 4.05
16 Brown 4.04
17 Cal San Diego 4.02
18 Maryland 3.97
19 Rutgers 3.96
20 SUNY Stony Brook 3.94
21 Illinois 3.93
22 Penn 3.87
23 Texas 3.85
24 Rice 3.82
25 Purdue 3.82
26 Washington 3.76
27 Northwestern 3.71
28 Ohio State 3.66
29 Johns Hopkins 3.65
30 CUNY 3.65
31 Brandeis 3.64
32 Illinois Chicago 3.58
33 Indiana 3.53
34 Duke 3.53
35 Utah 3.52
36 Penn State 3.50
37 Washington (St. Louis) 3.42
38 Carnegie Mellon 3.41
39 North Carolina 3.24
40 Southern Cal 3.23
41 Georgia Tech 3.19
42 Virginia 3.18
43 Notre Dame 3.11
44 Oregon 3.06
45 Michigan State 3.05
46 Cal Santa Barbara 3.04
47 Boston University 3.03
48 RPI 3.02
49 Dartmouth College 2.97
50 Arizona 2.96
51 Florida 2.95
52 Cal Santa Cruz 2.92
53 Rochester 2.90
54 North Carolina State 2.90
55 Massachusetts 2.90
56 Georgia 2.90
57 Pittsburgh 2.88
58 Iowa 2.85
59 Texas A&M 2.84
60 Cal Irvine 2.84
61 Colorado 2.83
62 VPI 2.79
63 SUNY Buffalo 2.79
64 Houston 2.78
65 SUNY Binghamton 2.74
66 LSU 2.74
67 Kentucky 2.72
68 Temple 2.67
69 Syracuse 2.62
70 Claremont 2.61
71 South Carolina 2.60
72 Tulane 2.59
73 Tennessee 2.59
74 Iowa State 2.59
75 Cal Riverside 2.55
76 Delaware 2.54
77 Northeastern 2.52
78 Florida State 2.49
79 SUNY Albany 2.48
80 Cal Davis 2.48
81 Arizona State 2.43
82 Kent State 2.41
83 Nebraska 2.40
84 Vanderbilt 2.39
85 Case Western 2.38
86 Oregon State 2.37
87 Kansas State 2.35
88 Clemson 2.34
89 Auburn 2.31
90 Wayne State 2.30
91 Missouri 2.30
92 Colorado State 2.28
93 Lehigh 2.22
94 Hawaii Manoa 2.20
95 Polytechnic 2.18
96 Oklahoma 2.18
97 Connecticut 2.16
98 Wesleyan 2.12
99 Miami 2.12
100 Washington State 2.10
101 North Texas 2.06
102 Cincinnati 2.06
103 Texas Tech 2.03
104 Texas Arlington 2.02
105 Southern Illinois 1.98
106 Drexel 1.97
107 New Mexico State 1.95
108 South Florida 1.90
109 Western Michigan 1.86
110 Bowling Green 1.85
111 Wisconsin Milwaukee 1.84
112 Southern Methodist 1.83
113 Howard 1.82
114 Northern Illinois 1.72
115 Maryland Baltimore County 1.69
116 Clarkson 1.68
117 Saint Louis 1.63
118 Stevens Tech 1.62
119 Rhode Island 1.57
120 Ohio 1.57
121 Wyoming 1.53
122 Alabama 1.47
123 Illinois Tech 1.45
124 Old Dominion 1.39
125 Missouri Rolla 1.33
126 Alabama Huntsville 1.28
127 George Washington 1.26
128 Colorado School of Mines 1.26
129 Adelphi 1.24
130 Southwestern Louisiana 1.13
131 Florida Inst of Tech 1.09
132 Mississippi 0.97
133 Texas Dallas 0.76
134 Idaho State 0.69
135 Illinois State 0.40</p>
<p>^^Odd, that Wesleyan is the only LAC listed above. Are you sure this isn’t just a ranking of Ph.D programs?</p>
<p>SAT math is stupid.
like really dumb.
i would say take the SAT II math 2. that is actually math rather than badly worded questions that are meant to trip you up.</p>
<p>none of them are LACs</p>
<p>^ Well not exactly. None of those listed are LACs b/c they weren’t included in the NRC study. (By the way, these figures are from 1993.) But, more important, as johnwesley suspected, it only covered “Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States.”</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html)</p>
<p>dk78, I suggest that you look into less prestigious schools with smaller math departments so that you can receive more individual attention.</p>
<p>I’m going to be a senior, and I’m looking for a college that has a strong mathematics program and is in an area I enjoy: something different than L.A. North, or Northeast. Do you have any suggestions? Anyone know where you can find undergrad math rankings also?</p>
<p>Quote from zfox001:</p>
<p>SAT math is stupid.
like really dumb.
i would say take the SAT II math 2. that is actually math rather than badly worded questions that are meant to trip you up.</p>
<p>End Quote.</p>
<p>The SAT reasoning…is reasoning. The questions can be answered more with logic that usual mathematics questions can. The SAT II Math Level 2 is like an algebra 2 test. I took the Math Level 2 test during my year of Calc BC last year as a junior…and i got 650. I got a five on the AP Calc test. If you’re in calc or way beyond your Algebra 2 year, definitely take a month to review all the topics.</p>
<p>There are many good schools for math. Here are some sources from previous posts:
Gourman Report ranking for undergrad math:
Princeton
UC Berkeley
Harvard
MIT
U Chicago
Stanford
NYU
Yale
Wisconsin Madison
Columbia
Michigan Ann Arbor
Brown
Cornell
UCLA
Illinois Urbana Champaign
Caltech
Minnesota
U Penn
Notre Dame
Georgia Tech
U washington
Purdue WL
Rutgers NB
Indiana U Bloomington
U Maryland College Park
Rice
UC San Diego
Northwestern
Texas Austin
carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Washington U St Louis
Ohio State
SUNY Stony Brook
Penn State
UVA
RPI
Illinois Chicago
U Colorado Boulder
U Kentucky
UNC Chapel Hill
Dartmouth
U Rochester
U Utah
SUNY Buffalo
Tulane
USC
UC Santa Barbara
U Massachusetts AMherst
U Oregon
Duke
Louisiana State Baton Rouge
U Arizona
case Western
Michigan State
U Pittsburgh
Brandeis
US Air Force Academy</p>
<p>LACs for math from Rugg’s:
Bates
Bowdoin
Bucknell
Carleton
Colgate
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dickinson
Harvey Mudd
Holy Cross
Kenyon
Mount Holyoke
Occidental
Pomona
Rice
St Mary’s (MD)
St Olaf
Trinity (CT)
Union
Wabash
Wellesley
Wheaton
Whitman
Willamette</p>