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<p>MissouriGal, my initial reaction to this post by CountingDown was that most universities (as opposed to LACs) will have plenty of math to offer advanced undergraduates because of the availability of graduate level courses. However, upon thinking about it a bit more, I agree that your son should ask specific questions about curriculum flexibility, rules related to enrollment in graduate level courses, etc. My son is a computer science and math major at a private university that has very different rules for students enrolled in the College of Arts and Science and those enrolled in the School of Engineering (which is where computer science is found, in this case). As an “engineering” student also majoring in math, he gets to follow the rules of the engineering school, and in this case, those rules are far more flexible than those dictating curriculum for students in A and S. As a result, he has been allowed to enroll in advanced courses from the start, including topology as a freshman–not such a hot idea, BTW, even for a student with several post-BC courses taken at a university while still in high school. (Son likes math to the extent that it serves his interests in cs and A.I., unlike most math majors who love it for its own sake.)</p>
<p>So, yes, encourage your son to make appointments and ask pointed questions of undergraduate program directors in the math and physics departments, if those are his probable majors.</p>