-Statistics at CMU and maths at NYU
-I was invited to participate in the SHS program at CMU
-I visited NYU and love it. I have never been to Pittsburgh.
-I do not like A LOT of work.
-I am not planning to go grad school immediately in four years.
-Study abroad is of huge importance to me.
Statistics at CMU is awesome. You will learn quite a bit and be ready for employment after graduation.
You can also study abroad at CMU. Where do you want to go? You can talk to their study abroad office and ask for more info. Back in my days, I spent one month in Germany and received two classes worth of credits (paid less, by the way), which eased my course load during regular semester.
As for workload, you will have to work hard at CMU, but you will probably not have more work than the engineers or architects. If you are paying expensive tuition, shouldn’t you work hard to make it worthwhile?
Pittsburgh is a very different city than NY, and not as expensive. Depends on who you are.
I don’t know anything about NYU, so I hope someone else can help you with that.
Best wishes!
You might want to note that at CMU we have a separate statistics dept and a separate math dept. In my impression the two hardly interact with each other. As stats majors you take 1-4 math prereqs (depending on how many AP credits you have), but that’s pretty much about all the math classes you must take. Unless you are ambitious and go on to take hardcore/insane proof-based math classes like Real Analysis, you’re done with math after the prereqs. The stats classes themselves are AWESOME. Personally as a stats major I’ve never felt overworked. I find the workload of stats classes, even our junior/senior-level core series, to be very manageable (but I might be biased coz I liked the material and quite frankly I was pretty darn good at it). The curriculum-setting of a statistics major is ultra flexible, not too many requirements and lots of room for free electives/enrichments. For studying abroad, my understanding is that it’d be very hard, if not impossible, to find replacements for 36401 & 36402 (the core data analysis series taken in junior or senior year) at other places; but having said that as long as you plan ahead and make sure you get to taken them during senior year you’d be fine. I know a person who studied abroad during junior year and took the series in senior year. We also recently introduced super cool new tracks (Mathematical Statistics; Neuroscience and Statistics) and major (Statistics & Machine Learning). Check them out here: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/new-majors-launch/