My son is a strong math student with executive function/organizational issues. He has been advised to seek a school that offers support for students with strong academic abilities (math especially, but he's strong in every subject) and lopsided strengths. He just graduated HS and decided to take a gap year to mature before settling down with a full college load. His last 3 years of HS he took math at Michigan (185 Hon Calc I, 296 Hon Math II - Spivak Calculus/Linear Alg, 395/396 Hon Analysis I/II - Manifolds) and did very well. Last year his UM advisor recommended Hon Alg or repeating Hon Analysis because each year a different professor teaches the course with their own emphasis. He loves the process of learning vs getting through the classes as fast as he can so he chose to retake 395/396 and was very happy he did. He learned a lot of different material and it steered his interest toward Representation Theory. For his gap year he is doing an independent study/tutorial course at Oxford focusing on Representation Theory.
We are looking for schools where he will be able to continue his studies in Pure Math/Representation Theory as a freshman. Michigan and U Chicago are his top choices, but we would like him to have other schools as backups. He loves the math dept at UM and he really liked how the U Chicago admissions officer spoke about wanting students with an intellectual curiosity.
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