Best Universities for Math and Science

collegemom3717
Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:23:10 +0000

If you want to do math + some humanities in the UK, your only choices are Oxford, Warwick and KCL (Math + philosophy), and UCL (Math + languages). Well, unless you consider econ a humanity!

I know you are from the UK, but I don’t know how familiar you are with the university system, so apologies if this is stuff you already know. If you do a math degree in the UK it will be all math all the time; if you do math + philosophy at Oxford, all of your first year classes are compulsory (3 math, 2 philosophy); you get some choices in years 2 & 3 (all math in years 2 & 3 is pure, not applied), but your final exams will be 3 & 3 (see here: http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses-listing/mathematics-and-philosophy).

From the sounds of it you will have the 5 in APCalcBC with no problem, and one assumes the 2100+ SAT, so take a look at the MAT: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/how-apply/mat

Again, from the sounds of it you are just the sort of student they love: somebody who loves their subject! But…

…do you want to have more balance / more options on the humanities side?