Berea
Centre
Guilford
New College of Florida
Rhodes
Sewanee
Take a look at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fl. They offer very generous merit and financial aid. The professor/mentor program is well known. A mentor will involve you in their research as an undergrad. As a freshman, you begin a single class of your choice during Autumn term. This is a 3 week period at the end of the summer. Freshman, RA’s and student activators are the only ones on campus. You take a class every morning and the afternoon, evenings and weekends are spend with dorm activities, team building activities, sightseeing, etc. The professor that teaches your autumn term class will be your mentor and help you to select classes for fall term. That professor also teaches your year long human experience course. You develop a close relationship with that person who will see you in class 3x/wk for an entire year. They will also assist with course selection for spring term and help you to find your mentor for the next 3 years in the major.
Mathematics at Eckerd College
The best way to describe the mathematics program at Eckerd College is through the use of the word ‘flexible.’ Every semester we offer a variety of courses in both pure and applied mathematics and many of our courses are sequenced so that the knowledge gained in one reinforces the learning in another. This gives you a great deal of flexibility in your studies because you will be the one who will choose whether to emphasize the theoretical, the applied or a combination of both. At Eckerd, each student majoring in mathematics has a truly unique graduation plan.
Because our major is not prescriptive (essentially any eight upper-division math courses), you will also find that there is ample room in your schedule to double-major with another field: biology, physics, computer science, economics, psychology, visual art, marine science, and creative writing have all been popular choices these last few years.
Most mathematics majors take no more than two math courses a semester and a typical four-year plan is:
Sewanee - definitely.
I would look beyond small schools and consider Alabama:
PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR
A first-time freshman student who meets the December 15 scholarship priority deadline, has a 32–36 ACT or 1400–1600 SAT score (critical reading and math scores only) and at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will be selected as a Presidential Scholar and will receive the value of tuition or $103,800 over four years ($25,950 per year) to be used towards undergraduate or graduate/law studies.**
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New College of FL is surprisingly affordable for out-of-state students, and very affordable for FL residents. They are small, and don’t have the wealth of formal course offerings, but students are always welcome to design their own tutorials and independent study projects, so they actually attract a number of Math geeks. They have a first-rate record for graduate-school admissions, and a number of Math majors have won Goldwater fellowships.
Another vote for Hendrix in Arkansas. Some nice scholarships and programs for strong students.