SEAS or Columbia College

confidentialcoll
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:15:55 +0000

“By no means is it “just a continuation of your high school classes”. That’s a crock.”

I was referring to the way classes are taught, the material is definitely not comparable. But every class i’ve taken in the math dept / phy department (i’ve taken 2601, and 3003 for a short while) are more abstract than AM, AP classes.

“but there is substantial class overlap and also substantial opportunity overlap”

this is true, forgot to mention

“you do your share of proofs”

in an AM/AP problem set 1-2 out of 8-10 problems will be proofs, in a higher level math or phy class in the college, the majority of questions could be proofs.

“both AM and AP majors - end up going to grad school in their subject”

most AP kids i’ve met plan to go into physics research, most AM kids i’ve met are interested in mathematical finance/ actuarial science/ climate science modeling / computational bio, i definitely don’t know them all though.