Top prospects:
Rutgers		(21,2)	app started
Berkeley	(2,6)	app started
UCSD		(21,2)	app started
Michigan	(7,5)
Minnesota	(17,x)
Waterloo	(x,x)
Wisconsin	(14,x)

(numbers in parenthesis are overall math grad school ranking followed by combinatorics ranking)

Worthwhile crapshoots:
Caltech		(7, 10)
MIT		(1, 1)


More in-depth:
Caltech (*)
	Jan 15
	http://math.caltech.edu/general/phddesc.html
	have 27 math grad students (total)
	3 faculty for combinatorics, 7 for algebra
	
MIT
	Dec 15
	http://math.mit.edu/graduate/index.html
	admit 16 pure math students / year
	lots of combinatorialists, recommended by Washington

NYU  (?)
	Jan 4
	http://math.nyu.edu/degree/phd/
	has at least 52 phd students (had to opt-in to the list)
	no real algebra/combo presence

Rutgers (for DIMACS)
	Jan 1
	http://www.math.rutgers.edu/grad/grad.html
	admitted 14 last year (9 from US)
	has DIMACS -- what else to say

Stanford (?)
	Jan 3 (but really Dec 19)
	http://math.stanford.edu/graduate/graduate.html
	total of 65 phd students
	no real algebra/combo presence

UC Berkeley (*)		//sent GRE scores
	Dec 11
	http://math.berkeley.edu/graduate.html
	total 180 grad students (all phd)
	large algebra/combinatorics group

UC Los Angeles (*)	//sent GRE scores
	Dec 15
	http://www.math.ucla.edu/grad/prospect.shtml
	total 160 phd students
	number theory group does "additive combinatorics"
	
UC San Diego (*)
	Jan 7
	http://www.math.ucsd.edu/programs/graduate/
	100 phd students
	lots of combinatorics people (and algebra)
	consider CSME for a computer science twist

U Chicago (?)		//sent GRE scores
	Jan 5
	http://math.uchicago.edu/admissions.html
	90+ total grad students
	lots of algebra, not much combinatorics. some TCS

U Michigan
	Jan 22
	http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/graduate/index.shtml
	141 grad students total
	lots of combinatorics, some algebra, recommended by Washington

U Minnesota (*)		//sent GRE scores
	Jan 15
	http://math.umn.edu/grad/
	admitted 22 grad students in 2005
	7 combinatorialists
	letters of recommendation should be faxed or in letter with signed back
	must apply for TAship seperately

U Waterloo (*)
	Jan 31
	http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/navigation/programsLists/graduateStudents.shtml
	C&O has 45 grad students, 30 faculty (jeez!)
	combinatorics is *in the name*

U Wisconsin-Madison
	Dec 31
	http://www.math.wisc.edu/graduate/
	currently 150 phd students
	good-sized algebra/combo group

Also think about good European schools...




Contacts
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(* = contacted)

Berkeley:
	Prof Michael Christ
		christ@math.berkeley.edu
		(510) 643-7670 (from grad program page)
		(510) 642-2143 (from his info page)
		Works on analysis stuff...
	Barbara Waller
		Grad adviser and program coordinator
		barb@math.berkeley.edu
		(510) 642-0665

Caltech:
	Math grad admissions committee
		mathgrad@caltech.edu
	Kristy Aubry (Math option secretary)
		kaubry@its.caltech.edu
	Prof Nathan Dunfield (chair of math grad admissions comm.)
		dunfield@caltech.edu

MIT:
*	Graduate Office   (asked for info)
		gradofc@math.mit.edu
		(617) 253-2689

Stanford:
	Dana Schwartz
		Grad admissions coordinator
		schwartz@math.stanford.edu
		(650) 723-2601

UChicago:
	Graduate admissions secretary
		admissions@math.uchicago.edu

UMich:
	Grad office
		math-grad-office@umich.edu
		(734) 764-7436