<p>Beagle, you need to learn how to quote on this forums…it’s very hard to read your posts.</p>
<p>IMO, the introduction of AP statistics in high school has probably had a positive effect on the number of statistics majors. I know kids from my high school who are majoring in Stat because we had such a great high school course. Our teacher encouraged us to check out fields besides engineering ( since the pay is not so great ). We spent a lot of time looking at the financial connections to statistics. I don’t think anyone had a clue what statistics was ( so would have never thought of majoring in it) before we took the class ( even though several of us already took AP Calc.</p>