u/Expensive_Cry7591

hi! i'm incoming freshman at berkeley for applied math. i was looking through the fall 2026 class offerings and realized that all the intro classes are super big, and although i realize i need to take them eventually, my first semester, i really want at least one "small" class where i can get to know the professor and eventually build a good relationship with math faculty. looking through the courses, i basically boiled it down to Honors Introduction to Analysis with Charles Pugh (class size, what people say about the professor, etc). is this in the scope? any advice?

i spent much of high school doing research in math-adjacent stuff and have read a couple higher math textbooks, so i think i'm comfortable with the content. i'm really just trying to "rep-build"

I am majoring math at UC Berkeley; applied for CS double major and want to go into quant (specifically QT). Do you guys think it is worth it to transfer to any of the following schools for a math major and potentially take CS courses? If so, which one?

I'm an incoming freshman at a target school (like a solid step under the S tiers). What is the QT internship process like at firms like Jane Street, SIG, etc? Is it the same as applying for a straight QT role? Ideally, I want to land an internship summer after freshman year, but I'm starting to realize that's really hard.

background on me: Through high school, I did math olympiads and qualified for AIME a bunch and made JMO once my freshman year. i'm a bit rusty at comp math rn, but I could change that with a little bit of practice. i'm also not sure how much comp math actually helps for these roles though..

so i've seen on this subreddit a bunch of people practically saying "full-pay uchicago ted is locked w good stats". i doubt the validity of this statement but.....to what extent is that statement actually true? what type of kids get into UChicago TED full-pay math/cs/physics?

on reddit and friends at UC Berkeley constantly tell me it is IMPOSSIBLE to get into these consulting clubs (literally one applied to 10 clubs and got into 2), so naturally I want to know what gets people in (prestige whoring a bit)? What even are these clubs for? Are there perks to joining other than a social life?

I saw a thread about genetics and skin color but I can't lie, half of the consulting clubs seem to be brown asf and very average looking across the board. so this seems like bs to me 💀