hey nycchillin2003,
thanks so much for your valuable information...the information you gave me really help me make my choice.....I will go to Stony Brook, yeah Prof James Glimm is one of the best applied mathematicians in the world. I have also asked some grad students at my current school and they told me the same thing you said, they said its a great prgram....
.....So how about yourself what school you going to, are you srudying applied mathematics cause you seem to know a lot about it....Myself I am interested in mathematical physics particularly the application, of Group, field and ring theory to problems in physics......talk to you later buddy!