<p>...any opinions or comments are appreciated!</p>
<p>Math. Because it's awesome. And also the department is amazing. And also less people do math, because not everyone can hack doing just math all the time. Oh and also did I mention math is awesome? Also, if you are a girl, you have an AMAZING ratio and thus much more dating options.</p>
<p>Also, if you are a girl, you have an AMAZING ratio and thus much more dating options.</p>
<p>hahahahaha, i love this kind of reasoning! ;)</p>
<p>I find it weird that people would go to Princeton for its Engineering school. Its BSE program is not that great in comparison to even Cornell, so I would definitely say go Math.</p>
<p>Math traditionally has a stronger dept. But engineering is by no means weak (I want to go into engineering)</p>
<p>Take an introductroy course with both departments, and see which appeals to you most.</p>
<p>I might end up double majoring in both. ;)</p>
<p>You can't really double major at Princeton</p>
<p>Let's see...pure math by itself (being mostly abstract) is really fun, but has almost no real world practical applications and opens one job for you...math teacher. Practical's the word, in my humble opinion. I would go engineering.</p>
<p>hmmm...well based on stength of department, I would say math in a flash. Engineering is good, but it can't even compare to the best. I wouldn't suggest Princeton if you know engineering is your thing.</p>
<p>BUT, as bladeofgondor points out, there are very limited oppurtunities for math grads, especially at the undergrad level. You know with engineering you have job choices.</p>
<p>That's actually really a lie. There are TONS of opportunities for math majors. The NSA alone hires something like 500 new math majors every year (I'm not exactly sure of the number, but it's a /lot/ higher than you'd think). I'm majoring in math and there's no way in hell I'm going to be a teacher.</p>
<p>maybe physics??</p>
<p>I'm doing engineering, and I love Princeton. Its defintely one of the top 15 undergraduate engineering schools, if not top 10, and that's good enough for me. I looked at all the schools ranked above Princeton, and with the exception of Stanford, they are not for me.</p>
<p>As far as engineering vs. math, do what you love. I don't know about job opportunities for math majors, but engineers are very much in demand today, especially electrical engineering, one of Princeton engineering's strongest fields.</p>
<p>Well, I was thinking of majoring in engineering at Princeton because I could also have the liberal arts experience at the same time. I love the fact that Princeton has such a wonderful undergraduate focus. It sounds like the PERFECT undergraduate school. I would like to one day go into business and figure that having a bit of engineering in my background could be a good thing. I also know that the Math department there is great. In the end, which would be the better experience and the better background choice for the future? </p>
<p>I am a girl so I figure the whole math thing might work for me:-)</p>
<p>fer- do you not find these reasonings to be enough reason to go to Princeton?
h88- I like your idea...but what should I say I want to major in when I actually apply?</p>
<p>What does everyone know about the Physics department? How could that help me if I do not want to be a scientist or something?</p>
<p>Sorry about all the posting, I missed Silmon77's.</p>
<p>Silmon- I agree. Stanford is my other top choice school:-) What other schools are you applying to?</p>
<p>When you mark majors on the app, it's not like the bind you to it, and you have to pick three, so you'll be good.</p>
<p>Math majors are so much more rare than engineering. Math all the way!</p>
<p>(or maybe I'm just sick of people assuming I'm going to be an engineer. "What are you majoring in?" "Math" "Oh, so you're gonna be an engineer?" Um, no.)</p>
<p>if you only want to major in math/engineering to enrich your business career, i dont think that's a good idea. it'd help you maybe, but if you are'nt really interested in that major, ehhhh.. you know :P</p>
<p>anyway, pton's physics is one of the coolest.</p>
<p>For some reason I really like Penn. I also applied to Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD</p>
<p>Well, I love math so it would be fun too. Economics just sounds so typical...I hear that having engineering as a background of business can be very good because if one gets into that field they can explain and understand it better than most. I also hear that it is not rare for someone to take engineering undergrad and business grad. </p>
<p>prettyfish-as a girl...will they need more of us in thir math or engineering programs? What sorts of courses would I end up taking?
duh-what is so great about the physics program?
Silmon- I also want to go to NW! I guess that we are both into that 'nice suburb right outside of the city' thing. I do not want to go to Penn. My mom went to Penn and hated it. Told me specifically not to apply there lol. It is to bad since maybe being a legacy would help me a bit:-) It looks like you are looking at alot of schools in Ca...are you from there? If so, is Palo Alto beautiful?</p>
<p>They always need more of us. It can only help your application if you show a passion for the hard sciences.</p>
<p>For math, you start with taking 3 courses before you declare your major: basically, Real Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Complex Analysis (the Honors versions of all of them) are probably the most common, although you can substitute Honors Algebra for Real Analysis and normal Multivar for Complex Analysis, but you shouldn't since you need to know the analyses to graduate, and the honors teachers are amazing. After that I'm not even exactly sure what you take, but I know you need to take tests to get your major, showing profiency in 3 areas: Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, and Algebra (surprise surprise). You do junior seminars which is basically really small classes in an area that you want to study with world-class professors. The faculty there is just amazing, and with only around 18 majors per grade, you get to know them all amazingly well.</p>
<p>Also, they have tea every day at 3:30, for the professors, grads, and undergrads, and you just hang out drinking tea solving amazing math problems.</p>
<p>Also once I get to Princeton I want to be a tour guide and I am going to give special guided tours to prospective math majors, because math majors are AWESOME like that.</p>