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05 Dec 2008, 12:20 am

What is the major like? jobs?
anyone work for the Census Bureau?
how good at math do you have to be?
B in an Intro Stat for technical majors ok?

http://www.math.umd.edu/~jjm/stat400.html


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06 Dec 2008, 9:13 pm

anybody?


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06 Dec 2008, 10:04 pm

not a math major but pretty decent at applied mathematical concepts, maybe also ordinary differential equations. You could be an actuary. the job market for that is tough but there are many jobs all over the place.

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06 Dec 2008, 11:26 pm

My father worked at the Census Bureau in Suitland Maryland for many many years. Skill-set would depend on what you would be doing there. A lot of the employees are only there during the busy season (around the national census time) and they go out with surveys and try to get information from groups of people that typically don't fill out data (the homeless, for example). I imagine they have a fairly large IT department for keeping track of the data - but I suspect most of the math would be done by computer.

My father started as a programmer (on punch cards) and worked his way up to a department manager by the time he retired.

I doubt any potential employer would be looking at your GPA in any single class - they're probably only interested in overall and perhaps "in major" GPA.



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06 Dec 2008, 11:38 pm

I can neither confirm nor deny any knowledge of any persons, living or dead, whose Master's in Applied Statistics led them into a career in the intelligence industry as a cryptanalyst or "Code Breaker."

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06 Dec 2008, 11:40 pm

t0 wrote:
My father worked at the Census Bureau in Suitland Maryland for many many years. Skill-set would depend on what you would be doing there. A lot of the employees are only there during the busy season (around the national census time) and they go out with surveys and try to get information from groups of people that typically don't fill out data (the homeless, for example). I imagine they have a fairly large IT department for keeping track of the data - but I suspect most of the math would be done by computer.

My father started as a programmer (on punch cards) and worked his way up to a department manager by the time he retired.

I doubt any potential employer would be looking at your GPA in any single class - they're probably only interested in overall and perhaps "in major" GPA.


they might look at cumulative GPA but not always. I graduated with 3rd highest honors, which indicates my GPA is between 3.53-3.63 I think. so it states my GPA without needing to provide a transcript.



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07 Dec 2008, 11:42 am

Shiggily wrote:
they might look at cumulative GPA but not always. I graduated with 3rd highest honors, which indicates my GPA is between 3.53-3.63 I think. so it states my GPA without needing to provide a transcript.


If the person interviewing you knows that "3rd highest honors" translates to a particular GPA range and that range is consistant across all colleges. I've usually seen GPA put on the resume as x.xx / x.xx because some colleges don't use the 4.0 GPA system.

I've also seen people put down their last 2 years GPA if it is significantly higher than the overall score (usually to show that you're matured while you've been in school).



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07 Dec 2008, 12:12 pm

I want to work for the fed govt because of my impediments , AS or not. mkt rsch sounds interesting and I do like demographic research. mkt rsch seems like it can be a bit people centric though.

don't even need a stat degree to work for the census but I think it would help.
I did apply for the 2010 census work.


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07 Dec 2008, 3:21 pm

vivinator wrote:
What is the major like? jobs?
anyone work for the Census Bureau?
how good at math do you have to be?
B in an Intro Stat for technical majors ok?

http://www.math.umd.edu/~jjm/stat400.html


Applied Statistics? Underwriting, actuary work and statistics are the main employing jobs. Actuary work is the highest paying of them all if you work for a large bank (when you move up.)



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07 Dec 2008, 6:48 pm

t0 wrote:
Shiggily wrote:
they might look at cumulative GPA but not always. I graduated with 3rd highest honors, which indicates my GPA is between 3.53-3.63 I think. so it states my GPA without needing to provide a transcript.


If the person interviewing you knows that "3rd highest honors" translates to a particular GPA range and that range is consistant across all colleges. I've usually seen GPA put on the resume as x.xx / x.xx because some colleges don't use the 4.0 GPA system.

I've also seen people put down their last 2 years GPA if it is significantly higher than the overall score (usually to show that you're matured while you've been in school).


interesting. that might bump up my GPA.

I had a rough first year.



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07 Dec 2008, 10:17 pm

I've looked at the actuary career path and decided it wasn't for me. don't like the exams. plus it seems like the math level might be over my head.

I already have somewhat of an interest in mkt research and demographics.

I also am not good at theoretical math and more in-depth math problems. just more the basic stuff.

got B's in AP stat. 2 on the exam but the content used by the teach to prepare for the exam did not prepare us for the exam at all.
people complained.

took the tech business stat class, got a d. honestly dont know why. didn't study much perhaps mind wondering,late to class
honestly the material wasn't a lot tougher than AP stat . took it again in the summer b.
took basically the same course called stat400 got a b-.
any linear algebra involved in the major?


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-as of now official dx is ADHD (inattentive type) but said ADD (314.00) on the dx paper, PDD-NOS and was told looks like I have NLD