Northwestern's Mathematical Methods in Social Science

<p>@Viviste</p>

<p>Thanks! Reassuring to know the workload won’t take over my life.</p>

<p>I was wondering if most of the people in the program are business/finance oriented. It seems like most people want to go on to Wall St., but would I stand out as a psych major? </p>

<p>Also, can AP credits be used for placement/requirements in MMSS? My guess is no, since everyone there is pretty smart and the classes are much more advanced anyways.</p>

<p>I’d say it’s 60% Wall St/Consulting, 25% Grad School in a social science, 15% other. You wouldn’t notice that you were substantially different as a psych major. You might notice as a freshman when everyone’s talking about classes they’re taking and by default most start as Econ and you’re like “well, I’m not taking classes with anyone”, but by sophomore year when plenty of people have broken off from the default MMSS/Econ path, you literally won’t even think about it.</p>

<p>AP credits can’t be used for placement or credit in MMSS classes, but if you’ve done higher level math - linear algebra, multivariable calculus, differential equations - you might have more flexibility with which math sequence you chose to take (proof based, application based) but you’ll still do the same number of classes (2 classes * 3 quarters * 2 years).</p>