UPenn and PSU are great tips. Actually I have been thinking the same thing myself. In fact, I am thinking about dropping Berkeley and Stanford altogether and adding UPenn and PSU instead. So it would both be more local and also i will scale down a little bit on the TOP10 schools.
I was just listing the name of the class, but really it should be called Linear Algebra. I think we had a total of 2 weeks going over very basic linear differential equations. So yeah, I basically count it as Linear Algebra only.
A question for bertthepuppy. Could you share any impressions you have about Pitt? I am a little ambivalent on it for two reasons. First, their mathematical disciplines in general are good, but their website did not display any particular strenght/focus on econometrics which is one thing I am looking at. Secondly, Pitt, at least on the undergraduate level, has a pretty gloomy reputation at least in our part of town heh
Do you guys think U of Pitt would be a sensible replacement to say U Washington, if I wanted to do any of the following: Econometrics, Macro, Financial and lately i am thinking may be micro or game theory or something in the lines.