Nerdiness at Yale

Mathinduction
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:30:26 +0000

Thanks so much both of you for the University of Chicago suggestion; I’ll definitely look more into it. One thing which slightly intimidates me with Chicago is the number of core requirements. I looked into Columbia but won’t apply there simply because the size of the core (I want to go very , very deeply into math/science) and want to have some breadth but prioritize depth of curriculum.

So how far would both of you (and any others on this forum) go as to the Yale student culture I’m looking for? Is it non-existant? Just very limited?, etc.

It seems like a great shame if it isn’t there as I really did love Yale and get an amazing vibe when I visited there, but I want other students who share my interest. Even with challenging classes/problem sets I always extend further just because of passion/curiosity. For instance in my AP physics C class (which is probably harder than most), we were studying simple harmonic motion, and I looked into damping/that second order differential equation just out of natural curiosity. I’d love to be at a place where no matter how hard the problem sets are, people want to do them not just because they’re due but because they’re genuinely interested in tackling incredibly challenging problems (and are curious about further problems/the implications of the solutions even once those problems are solved).

I’m really hoping that there is at least a little of that student culture at Yale as I loved it so much in every other regard.

Thanks so much for both of your help so far!