The Uneven Student

b_r_um
Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:08:24 +0000

One piece of advice: as you are researching colleges, especially smaller colleges, talk to current students to find our how committed or “geeky” their science majors really are. Bryn Mawr looked good on paper: ~30 students major pure math each year (that’s almost 10% of the student body!) and ~40 students do faculty-mentored and college-funded science research on campus each summer. What the view books did not say is that only ~5 of the 30 math majors like their major enough to go beyond the minimum requirements, and that most of the summer research students are international students who cannot get a work permit to work off campus.