<p>i'm currently a junior who's currently researching about possible careers.
one that i found really interesting was biostatistics</p>
<p>so my question is, does anyone know how i can prepare myself for such a career? i'm already taking the hardest classes in math/science (as well as everything else) and i have a strong interest in science/research and statistics *lifelong baseball fan ;-) does anyone have any advice?</p>
<p>i know cornell cals has a biometry and statistics major; does anyone know how hard is it to get accepted as a biometry and statistics major?</p>
<p>are there any other schools with this major?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>You'll have to look beyond the BS degree if you want to be employable in this field. Every biotech or pharmaceutical company in my neck of the woods employs biostatisticians if the company has a clinical trial or two running. A few biostatisticians I happened to know all had at least a Master's degree. I suggest looking into the pre-requisites for the graduate programs in biostatistics, for instance, like this one:</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/academic/biostatistics.html%5DBiostatistics%5B/url">http://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/academic/biostatistics.html]Biostatistics[/url</a>]</p>
<p>For instance, here is what's needed at UW:</p>
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Master of Science</p>
<p>Admission Requirements</p>
<p>Applicants to Biostatistics graduate programs are formally applying to the Graduate School of the University of Washington. Although all acceptance decisions are made within the Biostatistics Department, the Graduate School imposes certain minimum admission requirements. Applicants must therefore submit both a general application directly to the Graduate School and a specific application to the Biostatistics Department.
Potential M.S. students may enter the graduate program in biostatistics from an undergraduate major in mathematics, statistics, or a biological field. Students are occasionally admitted with backgrounds in other fields; however, all applicants must have 30 or more quarter credits in mathematics and statistics to include two years of calculus (to include multivariate calculus), one course in linear algebra, and one course in probability theory.
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<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You are definitely a smart high school student to notice this field without any exposure to it. Biostats is an eminently employable field. If I had this interest when I were applying to colleges, I might consider bachelors of public health programs.</p>