Re: Advice for undergraduate schools?

From: John Doe (john_at_doe.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: 14 Apr 2004 16:16:46 -0500

On 2004-04-13, Rick Decker <rdecker@hamilton.edu> wrote:
>
> Not necessarily. What you should be looking at is the best four-year
> school you can get into. You're interested in, say, type theory right
> now. What you can't anticipate is whether some other area about which
> you know nothing yet might not turn out to be even more interesting.
> If a school is strong across the board, the odds are better that you
> might be exposed to areas that turn you on. The moral is that there's
> a wealth of fascinating stuff out there so you should be open to
> opportunities you may not have thought about.

Thanks. I don't want to put on blinders and to ignore every other
posiibility, but I guess I'm worried that I could end up at a school
that gives my current interests short shrift. At the same time, I'm not
sure how best to explore those interests or what background would be
useful. Maybe I just need to poke around some more.