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<p>Grade: 10th
Purpose: Find schools I like, narrow down later
Degree/Career Plans: Current plan is a double major in math/philosophy and then a joint JD/PhD program. I’d like to be a professor/ researcher.
Location: Unimportant
Cost: Important at all but 1st and 2nd tier schools. </p>

<p>Looking for:</p>

<p>-Decent AP credit acceptance
-Strong Pure math/science program
-BS/MS or BA/MA program (4 years preferable)

  • Honors/Accelerated Programs NOT rank-based (My school doesn’t rank)
    -Openness for gifted students to take higher level classes
    -Questbridge program a plus
    -Credit-by-exam a plus
    -Accepting transfer credit from freshmen a plus (Particularly in Foreign language)
    -I’m open to LACs</p>

<p>My list so far: NCSU (in-state), UNC-CH (Instate, insane legacy), Duke (Legacy, instate, 18% must come from NC+SC),WUSTL, Umich University of Chicago, University of Rochester, Caltech, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Harvard</p>

<p>Philosophy </p>

<p>11th or 12th, PHI 340 Philosophy of Science w/ NCSU</p>

<p>Math</p>

<p>Algebra I (8th), Geometry (9th), Algebra II (9th), Pre-cal (9th), AP Calculus BC (10th), </p>

<p>11th-12th </p>

<p>MAT 242 Multivariable Calculus w/NCSU (Summer), Graph Theory w/HS (11th), Combinatorics (11th) w/HS, Number Theory w/HS (11th), Differential Equations w/HS (12th), Linear Algebra w/HS (12th), 3 independent studies for credit </p>

<p>-or-</p>

<p>Multivariable Calculus w/ NCSU (Summer), Linear algebra w/CC (11th), Differential Equations w/CC (11th), 3 independent studies for college credit</p>

<p>Thanks for any suggestions!</p>

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<p>Don’t know if they have everything that you are looking for but maybe Carnegie Mellon and Case Western.</p>

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<p>Thanks! Any school suggestions are very helpful. My problem has been how much time it takes to find the AP policy, transfer credit policy, math undergrad info, philosophy info, and the other stuff. Perhaps it is inevitable that I will apply to many colleges, and give an in depth look into where I get in.</p>

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<p>You have a good list so far. You might also look at Berkeley. There’s a frequent (and quite thoughtful) poster called mathboy98 who goes there, and my impression is that he is having an excellent experience.</p>

<p>Will you be going to NCSSM? I’m curious – why the JD? (I say this as a math major who ended up in law school but didn’t pursue math past undergrad.)</p>