An accomplished math professor from a public university told me that, in his opinion, Macalester College is probably the best liberal arts college in the Midwest (and one of the best in the country) for math majors. That’s just one opinion and it surprised me. I knew Macalester was very well regarded, but I didn’t realize it was THAT well regarded. He said he was basing his opinion on faculty he knew, not on profiles of entering students. He acknowledged that Grinnell and Carleton probably accepted, on average, high school seniors with higher scores on their math SATs and ACTs. But he still thought Macalester was better. One other plus for Macalester is that it is very close to the University of Minnesota.