<p>Caltech is literally a vocational school for future scientists and mathematicians. They force open graduate school’s mouths and shove PhD students into them.</p>
<p><a href=“Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College”>http://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html</a></p>
<p>Just to note, Reed didn’t publish that data, it was from the NSF. Caltech sends the highest % of their students to science or mathematics PhD programs out of any college in the country.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about MIT not offering you theoretical math courses. I would not doubt they are certainly available. The quickest way to figure that out is by actually looking at the math curriculum. MIT is also on the NSF’s list of top-PhD producing colleges for math and science.</p>
<p>Also, why isn’t UChicago here? Have you visited it or considered it before? UChicago has an incredible theoretical math program. Certainly worth looking into! However, the Early Action deadline has passed and the acceptance rate for regular decision is pretty darn low.</p>