<p>I am currently a Math/Econ major in my 2nd year at UCLA. It looks like I will be able to graduate by the end of my 3rd year and I was wondering if taking up a stats minor will be helpful in the field of finance/business/actuary. If I do take up stats minor, I would have to stay one more quarter. Is the extra quarter's worth of tuition worth up taking a stats minor?</p>
<p>I do not get any financial aid and thus planned my schedule accordingly so I can graduate a year early. So if a quarter's worth of tuition is not worth minoring in stats I rather not do it. Any advices?</p>
<p>Also is this schedule doable for next quarter?</p>
<p>Math 131a or Math 115a. Really want to take 131a with Weisbart but I am not sure if I will be able to handle the material without 115a background.
Stats 100a - Christou
Stats C116 - Lew
History 1B - Norberg
Film C132 (2 units)</p>
<p>Also how much harder is actuarial plan than math/econ? Is it actuarial plan much better than math/econ?</p>
<p>Almost all of the full-time recruiting occurs in the Fall. Participate in recruiting this upcoming fall quarter (Fall 2011). If you get a full-time offer that you are satisfied with then you don’t have to finish the minor. If you don’t, apply for summer internships, these almost always lead to full-time offers. In this case you would be required to stay one more quarter, so you can finish up your stats minor. Furthermore, if you would like to leverage your summer internship to get something better you can participate in full-time recruiting again in Fall 2012 while you are finishing up your stats minor and start working in January.</p>
<p>Unless you are specifically applying for actuarial jobs, there isn’t much difference in terms of recruiting between Math/Econ and Math/Applied Science Actuarial Plan. If you have a high GPA in either of those majors you will have your foot in the door for most finance/business/etc jobs.</p>
<p>Gluck! And Math/Econ ftw!</p>
<p>P.S. If you take 131A w/ weisbart then yes, you have a very doable schedule. 115A will suck though</p>
<p>P.P.S. I just very recently graduated as a Math/Econ major. When I was applying for jobs I was enrolled in the stats minor. I was never really planning on finishing it, it’s just ridiculously easy to declare (I was just asked if I wanted to be added into it when I was asking for a PTE for Stats 100B). Once I accepted a job offer, I went ahead and dropped the minor</p>
<p>Thanks supa_ramga, that was some valuable information!</p>
<p>Do you think taking 115a and 131a at the same time is doable? </p>
<p>115a - Vilenchik
131a - Weisbart
100a - Christou</p>
<p>I might limit myself to 3 classes if I can do this schedule. Also even if I do not do stats minor, will it help my recruiting stock to take some stats electives instead of meaningless upper div classes like history? Well not necessarily meaningless, but I would assume history won’t be relevant to my field. I do really like history though.</p>
<p>Yes it definitely is. I took them both together and got an A- and A respectively. And yes that schedule is very doable considering Weisbart and Christou are pretty easy profs.</p>
<p>The only stats elective I took was Stats C183 (Stats Models for Finance). The only difference it made in terms of recruiting was that it gave me more to talk about in my finance interviews. I didn’t have any relevant work experience so that was good.</p>
<p>Truth is electives really won’t make much of a difference in terms of recruiting. I highly recommend taking electives that genuinely interest you. If you really into the subject that should hopefully translate into you receiving a high grade. A high GPA will be very helpful in getting those first interviews. After that, it’s mostly all on you and not on what classes you took. If you like history then take it. If anything, it may uniquely separate you from the rest of the homogeneous biz-econ/accounting folk. You’ll be a lot more interesting and have more to talk about.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I truly appreciate it =]</p>
<p>Also do you think it is possible to do 131A without knowing 115A material? I have no exposure to pure mathematics and proofs, but I love Weisbart’s classes.</p>