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Majoring math at Princeton is hard---it's hard to get in, every year the department takes only a dozen or so students. They make it very exclusive.
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The math department does not decide who they will take. At the end of sophomore year, anyone who has fulfilled the necessary prereqs can declare himself a math major. The small number of math majors is indeed a function of the difficulty of math at Princeton, but to describe the department as exclusive would be a gross mischaracterization.