Wound up choosing WADE after having a conversation with the director. He really seems to have his finger on the pulse of what's trendy in Number Theory, and asks good research questions. Super excited to go there this summer!
Well, WADE I emailed after I got my first offer telling them I had an offer I needed to accept or decline by Feb. 18th. They gave me an offer during an interview shortly thereafter. UCSB was totally out of the blue, though.
Does anyone know anything about peoples' opinions of those REUs?
I just was accepted to Kent for Interactions between Linear Algebra and RIng Theory for summer 2015, and am deciding between Kent, UCSB, and WADE reu. What did you think of Kent??