Well-Known Colleges with good Mathematics.

College Search & Selection
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<p>Well, I havent got my SATs back yet, but I have a 4.00 GPA, 12/520 Rank, an 800 on Math Level 2, and a 226 on the PSAT. Will that help narrow it down?</p>

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<p>^
St. Olaf is definitely cold enough for the OP, methinks. :)</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=60986%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=60986&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>According to Rugg's, the best undergrad schools for math are</p>

<p>Bates
Boston U
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Bucknell
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
Caltech
Carleton
Case Western Reserve
U Chicago
Colgate
Columbia
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dickinson
Duke (which has done exceedingly well in the Putnam competition, btw)
GA Tech
Harvey Mudd
Harvard
Kenyon
Michigan
MIT
NYU
Northwestern
Oberlin
Occidental
U Penn
Pomona
Princeton
Reed
RPI
Rice
Rose-Hulman
Stanford
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Olaf
Trinity (CT)
Tulane
Union
Villanova
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
WUStL
Whitman
Wesleayn
Willamette
Wisconsin
Vassar
Yale</p>

<p>Arizona State
Birmingham Southern
UC Irvine
College of Charleston
U Colorado
DePaul
Earlham
Fairfield
Hendrix
Illinois
Knox
Michigan State
Muhlenberg
U Oregon
SUNY Pottsdam
SUNY Binghamton
USC
Stetson
Valparaiso
College of Wooster</p>

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<p>I actually was kinda interested in Duke, even though its warmer. Is the atmosphere too preppy?</p>

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<p>Eh, it depends on how preppy is too preppy. As a general rule, people like to look nice, and most students care about their appearance. A rather large portion of the student body isn't that wealthy, though, and ~60% came from public schools. There's plenty of people here from the Midwest, South, and CA, and they balance out the preppiness. Personally, I come from a laidback public high school, wear jeans and a t-shirt/sweatshirt, and fit in just fine. It's a little preppier than Brown/Yale/Columbia/etc., but I'd say it's comparable it to Dartmouth, UNC, U Penn, Williams, Amherst, etc.</p>

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<p>Cool, thanks for your help!</p>

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<p>Math Ph.D. per capita undergrads, 1994-2003:</p>

<p>1 California Institute of Technology 27.2
2 Harvey Mudd College 18.7
3 Reed College 13.5
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9.3
5 University of Chicago 7.6
6 Harvard University 7.5
7 Pomona College 6.7
8 St Olaf College 6.5
9 Rice University 6.1
10 Princeton University 5.9</p>