<p>Right now I am a junior in High School, I plan to go off to college Fall 2009.</p>
<p>I enjoy math-- I like to work with numbers, and analyze different situations with numbers. Also, I like technology. Not necessarily programing, but using the programs and figuring out different ways to use them. At first I was thinking about accounting, then marketing, now I am wanting some technology to be somehow incorporated into my studies. What do you recommend?</p>
<p>Also which schools do you suggest? </p>
<p>Currently I am ranked 7/620 top 1% - hoping to be one of the top 5 students by the time I graduate.
My current GPA is 3.9 UW and about 4.4 W
I have not taken the SAT or ACT yet, I will soon.</p>
<p>I think you sound like a good Operations Research/Business Statistics candidate.</p>
<p>You use a lot of technology (Optimization and Linear Programming in Excel, simulation with different softwares), you get to do math, and really take a look at the quantitative side of business. I know the things that you say you enjoy and want to work with are some of my fav. parts of my operations/statistics programme I’m doing. </p>
<p>Market Research may be another area you would like. Finance also does a lot with computers and math, and there are a lot of jobs in this area. Basically there are a lot of areas in business for someone who is math and technologically inclined. I think that the best idea would be to go to a school where you could take a wide range of these sorts of courses (Finance, Economics, Market Research, statistics, Operations Management/Research, Information Systems) and see what interests you. </p>
<p>Your stats look great but without SAT/ACT scores it’s hard to say for sure what would be good. Also I’m studying in Canada and a little out of touch with what US schools would be good.</p>
<p>It sounds like you enjoy applied math more than you enjoy theoretical math. Is this true? If that is the case you may want to look into Finance, Financial Engineering (depending on if a school offers it) or Economics. If you enjoy “theory-based education” more then major in economics. If more “concrete-style learning” fits your fancy then major in Finance. The suggested majors by Noelle would also be suitable.<br>
For more data on Financial Engineering, and what it may entail, go to [url=<a href=“http://orfe.princeton.edu//content/view/51/151/]Operations”>http://orfe.princeton.edu//content/view/51/151/]Operations</a> Research & Financial Engineering - Undergraduate Curriculum<a href=“as%20an%20example%20of%20some%20things%20one%20might%20expect”>/url</a>.
Without your SAT/ACT scores it would be hard for me to give a fairly accurate guess of places for you to attend. However, some colleges that you may want to look into are
(in no specific order)
University of Michigan
MIT
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University<br>
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue
NYU
Look into the Ivies as well, they tend to provide excellent job placement in finance . This is just a starting point, any add ons to this preliminary list would be welcome.</p>
<p>Just for fun, and since the OP didn’t specify an industry, I would look into bioinformatics since it is another field that lies heavily in applied mathematics but is applicable to the medcial and medical research fields.</p>