/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11007767
If I edited a journal I would desk-reject anybody who sent me stuff formatted in this two-column bullshit.
It's so fucking ugly. It needs to die.

>>11007772
There's almost no specifically mathematical advice worth giving to somebody entering undergrad. As long as you aren't at an absolute meme-tier university (I mean REALLY meme-tier, even average state unis are fine) your foundations will be basically the same. Name prestige does help, especially if you end up applying to jobs and not grad schools, but name prestige has nothing to do with the math department.

Find a medium-large math department, but err on the larger side if you have to. The only downside to a huge school is that it's harder to connect with profs. At a small school there may not be that many profs worth connecting with at all, there may not be many/any extracurricular math events, there may not be enough students to run a reasonable selection of upper-division and grad courses for you to take, etc.. A small department will hamstring you if you're trying to do math seriously.

Make sure you're happy with the location too. A lot of people don't think enough about the fact that they have to live there for four years and end up at Cornell despite hating the cold or Notre Dame not realizing they're headed to fucksville nowhere or stuff like that. Try to visit first if you can.