<p>How is the statistics program at CMU?</p>
<p>Stop ■■■■■■■■!</p>
<p>In the past 18 months MOVMUS has created 6 topics in the CMU threads-- most of which no one replies to:
“How is the X program”…</p>
<p>Since you span last and this year’s application years-- and ask about unrelated programs, you’re just a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Please don’t dignify with a comment.</p>
<p>And stay off the FB group too!</p>
<p>I’m not a ■■■■■. I just want to know a second perspective on certain programmes at CMU that I’m interested in. I’m already a student at CMU (H&SS), and am weighing my options. I find sometimes you can find a good perspective online.</p>
<p>Uhh… if you’re on campus here with the rest of us, why don’t you ask real people in those programs? If you’re in HSS, you should have a ton of stat majors in your seminar/interp/world history/whatever. You’re basically asking a bunch of freshmen noobs online and/or me/one of the other upperclassmen, but none of us are actually stat majors. 
It seems like it’d be more useful for you to go to people in person, no? </p>
<p>Also, since you are in HSS, you’ve probably had (or will have) Gordon Weinberg. Ask him about the stat major, he’s friendly and likes to talk!</p>
<p>Why not just post anonymously on misc.market?</p>
<p>I don’t believe you are cut out for statistics at this school or any school.</p>
<p>The odds that you will get an answer here is small.
The odds of getting a good answer is even smaller
The odds of getting an accurate answer is close to nil.
The only good thing about posting here is the correlation of an answer and its correctness is that that they wont correlate. </p>
<p>I’d try, Psychology.</p>
<p>I’ve talked to my statistics professor, students, and some grads. And to some outsiders. I just was seeing if I could get any more insider information from current or past students (the more information the better, right?), but apparently people are so hostile here that I should not have asked in the first place. It’s a forum for a reason.</p>
<p>your question is designed wrong.</p>
<p>BTW, since you have already asked many students, grad students, and prof’s, you are now the resident authority. </p>
<p>So, How is CMU’s Statistics Program?</p>
<p>Look, MoveMus. It may seem hostile at first, but the reality is that you’ve been in school for three weeks and you’ve already posted several threads about changing your major. These threads are all in wildly different categories ranging around the maths/sciences, so all this indicates to me that you really have no f**ing clue what you want to do with your education yet.</p>
<p>Mark well that this is a forum largely populated by freshmen trying to get into the school. There are only maybe 5-6 of us who actually have attended CMU for longer than a few weeks (myself, bc09, metaltaco, etc) and a few mom/dad posters who like to pretend they have. We can tell you how prestigious the programs are and how well they do in national rankings, but so can Google. The reality is that going to talk to professors, students, and grad students is probably the only choice you have.</p>
<p>However, the recommended option is for you to relax and decide whether or not you actually enjoy your intended major. Stop freaking out about transferring- there’s enough time to do that later. You have no idea where you want to go and you’re not going to figure that out for a while yet - at least, that’s my hunch.</p>
<p>Oh, and use your counselor. You have one of those for a reason. If your counselor sucks, go to Gary Delisio, he’s an HSS counselor who rocks at what he does and will go the extra mile to give you info, including answering emails at freaky hours of the night.</p>
<p>^Let’s leave it at that and move on.</p>
<p>First of all don’t assume before you talk. Before coming to CMU, I had a interest in both languages/linguistics, and technical fields especially IT/statistics. Yes people can have interests in both a humanities subject area and a technical subject area; that is not a crime. Few people come with a narrow vision of their exact major, graduate degree, career; in essence very few people (at least anyone I know) has their whole life let alone educational career planned out yet. That’s the beauty of college, that you explore and end up with something that you love and want to pursue after college. I’m taking classes right now that serve both my interests, and at this point I’m weighing my options. </p>
<p>Now I’m not very familiar with the type of people at this forum, but all I did is ask a question about a program, hoping to get some more additional insight. Anyways I’m out, I’ll won’t ask people here again.</p>
<p>@ Kate</p>
<p>"and a few mom/dad posters who like to pretend they have. "</p>
<p>That remark is Uncalled for… I don’t think any of the parents posting “pretend” to be anything other than parents. We are offering inputs to prospective students and other parents…no one pretends to be anything other than that-- we’ve posted information rather than speculation on topics we don’t know. Specifically, I don’t recall any of the parents posting about student life or professors or specific difficulty of courses, etc (personally I leave that to students such as yourself or Noble or a few other regulars) - at least I know I never do that since I’m not a student. But I do feel that the information parents post is accurate and we’ve been told helpful. I resent your comment that parents pretend here on CC.</p>
<p>@ OP and in particular to the last post you left for Kate</p>
<p>I think what people resent is that you are not asking any SPECIFIC or PARTICULAR question.
Open questions as CMUGUY noted are always 'how’s the program"…well, what exactly is it you want to know?
Research, specific classes, acceptance to grad school, national ranking, ease of transfering into the major.</p>
<p>The presumption of such posts is that you are a high school student interested in applying.
A current student will not gain any accurate info on majors and curriculum here…that’s why you have peers on campus and advisors.</p>
<p>Your posts also span over a full year-- this seems really odd to everyone.</p>
<p>OP, you are third week of school. Give yourself some time. </p>
<p>Whatever you decide, Statistically you will leave your field of study not long after you leave graduate-just a matter of time. Statistically your first job out of college will not be in your major study. Statistically you will have at least 3 careers in your lifetime. </p>
<p>Statistically, this set of parents, felt 100%, If DS ('06) was unsure of his initial profession, that we not support him for this school and would insist on something less expensive. We set up a trust fund for his college costs, thus if he chose his school and study unwisely-the burden would be his. We were a full pay family.</p>
<p>CMU is not a good school for those unsure of their major – my 2 cents.</p>