<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>I'm deciding what to choose as a major and thought about statistics because I'm enjoying my AP Statistics class and am doing pretty well in it so far. </p>
<p>Is statistics a hard major to get a high gpa in? (I want to go to med school after)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>It really depends on the individual. That’s like asking “is German a hard major to get a high GPA in?”</p>
<p>For some people, it’s a piece of cake and it’s all intuitive. Others really struggle. And of course, the more time and effort you put in, the better that you’d do. Why not look at stats courses in MIT OCW and see if you like the topics?</p>
<p>It could very easily be much different at each university. The statistics courses at my university (UT Austin) haven’t had an extremely high amount of coursework. They are all 3 credit hour courses where you are in class for 3 hours per week. It’s works out well for me because I don’t have any labs. Most of my classes just had homework assignments and exams with nothing else except for my Applied Statistics courses which had one project. All of my statistics courses have had very few problems on each homework too. I don’t think there’s a ton of material covered in each course but some students will definitely struggle to understand some of the concepts. </p>
<p>My university has a department titled “Statistics and Data Sciences” which is the department for those that want a masters of statistics. The undergrad statistics is done through the mathematics department and is described as a mathematics bachelors with a concentration in statitics. This means that you still take many of the same mathematics courses as the other math majors but then you take a few courses that are specific to your concentration. Statistics courses offered at my school include: Probability, Applied Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Generalized Linear Models.</p>
<p>Some schools will have an undergrad statistics department and others will just have it as part of the math department. You can look up degree plans for your prospective schools and see what you think.</p>