<p>Well, if I did math, at least I could teach if all else fails lol.</p>
<p>yes because the math major will not help you at all with financial economics. i don’t think you realize how stat heavy finance is.
you should check out the slides from this website to see what i mean: <a href=“http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~szeidl/ec136/ec136index.htm[/url]”>http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~szeidl/ec136/ec136index.htm</a>
you’ll see that the equations in the courses all have covariance,correlation, variance, and expected value terms.</p>
<p>Do you regret going math instead of stats? I believe you man, but I just want to make sure I understand you. I know finance requires heavy stats, but I always imagined finance to be dominated by the traditional math/physics/engineer majors, followed by a few stats majors.</p>
<p>Which stats course is everyone planning to take in the fall?</p>
<p>Statistics 20, 21, 25?</p>
<p>I’m going to assume by the names stats 20 is regular stats,21 is business stats and 25 is engineering stats.</p>
<p>i do not regret the math major because its what i wanted to major in and i’m doing the probability theory concentration. Also, before you decide to major in math just realize that all your classes will be completely different from your lower division calculus/linear algebra classes. I have never been asked to explicitly compute an integral or derivative in any of my upper div math courses.</p>
<p>OK thanks. I appreciate it. I still have to look into it. I really appreciate it!</p>
<p>I might take 2 courses in the summer. Is that the norm?</p>
<p>it depends what they are. if they’re courses like math 113 and math 104 you will definitely get owned unless you’re a math god.</p>
<p>JetForce, have you taken calculus physics series? I have not, so that might complicate it for me being a math major. I could take it at Cal or a community college, but I probably would be wasting time and money. And I don’t need physics for econ or finance; I just need a good knowledge of mathematics. </p>
<p>And I am above average at Math. I am not a math god lol.</p>
<p>So far I have completed very basic stats at CC, calc1,2,3 and linear algebra, and I am completing Diff eq now as well as symbolic logic. I have not taken discrete math or calculus based stats.</p>
<p>i would recommend taking discrete mathematics over the summer if you intend to go through with the math major. If you don’t know how to prove that 1+2+3+…+n=n(n+1)/2 it’d be a good idea for you take it to save yourself time and effort in the fall.</p>
<p>ok cool man.</p>
<p>What do you think about a stats class and a media studies class over the summer? Or a stats and an econ class? Too much?</p>
<p>thebigsh0w,</p>
<p>Why are you taking a symbolic logic course? Was it a prerequisite for one of the colleges you applied to? Symbolic logic is one of the topics briefly covered in Discrete Math and it goes by very quickly (one class or two classes.) A symbolic logic course for Philosophy majors moves extremely slow because the Philosophy major don’t have the mathematical background.</p>
<p>I only needed one class to transfer so I took it for units, and for fun. It is a really good class because it teaches you proofs, arguments, and mathematical symbols. Logic is very similar to all branches of mathematics like group theory, set theory, algebra, etc-they just use different notation.</p>
<p>I think it would also help me if I want to do proofs or take the lsat.</p>