Chance and match for math majors

momprof9904
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:32:37 +0000

groundhog74:

Are there any/enough safeties on this list?

Any reason why only small LAC’s as safeties? For an advanced math student, it’s not clear to me that the safety LAC’s would provide the depth of mathematics after the first 2 or 2.5 years, and it would be easy to run out of math courses. This point was also raised by ucbalumnus. At first I thought it was because the student prefers smaller colleges, but then UCB and UMich were counterexamples to that.

Others have also suggested some state universities as safeties. Math departments at flagships like UMN and UMD have excellent undergrad opportunities. They regularly produce Goldwater scholars and the like, and have a critical mass of top math students. They also have access to graduate level courses, which I think your son would be able to take by junior year.