<p>I have a son who’s a junior, and we visited Olin this summer and really liked it. I have a couple of questions for any of the Olin students (or admission folks) who visit this site. DS1 is interested in majoring in math/comp sci, and we were curious how folks who are intensely interested in math get their “fix.” DS1 will have several post-AP Calc classes by the time he graduates. Do they go to one of the other consortium colleges? Is this feasible if one wanted to major in math and comp engineering? What if one leans towards the theoretical side of things? Are the math profs at Olin willing to work with students to design a program?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I believe the last time I asked the question the answer was that the level at Olin was deeper than usual high school classes, and that if they want however, they could take a placement exam and take a math class that was even deeper than the standard Olin one, but would still be regarding the same stuff.</p>
<p>I am a freshman at Olin. We freshmen just got an email today saying we could enroll in the half-semester advanced differential equations course that is just starting now. Also, on every tutorial (problem set, but better) we are assigned, we can either choose to hand in a series of problems or the challenge problem at the end. So yes, there are enough opportunities for advanced work.</p>
<p>The way I’ve experienced it though, it’s ok to have one of your classes (e.g. calculus) slightly easier than your others because you are going to get mostly pwned (in a good way) by the workload regardless. In fact I can’t imagine how hard Olin would be if I hadn’t taken calculus already.</p>