Using open curriculum to ignore boring courses?

fenwaypark
Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:49:34 +0000

I think it is fine to chit chat about whether MIT students are multidimensional, but I am wondering whether the MIT or Brown forum would be the optimal place for interested youngsters and parents to search for and respond to that.

In the meantime, a good point was raised about Applied Math at…ahem…Brown. It is a separate department from Mathematics and offers multiple concentrations such as APMA–AB and ScB, APMA-Bio–ScB, APMA-Computer Science–ScB, (normal and professional track), and APMA-Economics–AB and ScB (Advanced Econ and Mathematical Finance tracks)

It was the OP’s view that the math courses at Brown were few in number and scope. I believe this opinion should be reconsidered in light of the number and scope of APMA courses. OP also averred that the Math teaching at Brown is “horrific”. I can not express a comprehensive opinion about that, but I do know just one person in the middle of the APMA-Econ concentration who is fully satisfied with the level of instruction.

I believe the OP’s views about the Brown Math/APMA curriculum were not fully-informed and portray an incomplete and erroneous impression of the discipline at Brown.