<p>This entire discussion is pointless.</p>
<p>What are we talking about in comparing math departments? Great professors, number of top math students, the quality of the very best math students at each school, research opportunities?</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>All I’ve seen so far is comparisons on a certain math competition. That’s not an accurate way to judge math departments.</p>
<p>Regarding the Putnam, Harvard has historically dominated, but they’ve done considerably worse than MIT the past few years, as they have rejected a number of IMO gold medalists. </p>
<p>Nothing wrong with that, but it does tend to lower one’s performance on intercollegiate math competitions. </p>
<p>And saying that Harvard is clearly better than MIT in math is ridiculous. </p>
<p>Each school has unique advantages in their undergraduate math departments. </p>
<p>It depends on what a student is most interested in.</p>