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“Quant firms” are finance companies that use mathematics and computers to guide investment decisions. Their key hires include people who are exceptionally strong in mathematics (the “Quants”) as well as those talented in computer science. Our very own @hebegebe was a quant investor and lead researcher for 15 years, prior to his recent retirement. He has a strong understanding of the industry, including recent hiring patterns, and has offered to explain this field to current math and CS students. Are you interested in a Math/CS major? Do you want to pursue a career in quant finance ? Make sure ..read more

Any recommendations for college consultants / college counselors who focus on computer science programs and are well-versed on relative strengths of the programs, direct admit requirements, admissions rate into CS rather than entire school, etc.? 3 posts - 2 participants Read full thread ..read more

I started an AS in Computer Science in Fall 2022 at Dallas College under the Dallas Promise scholarship. I got English, Government, Arts/Humanities, College Algebra, and Trigonometry out of the way. However, sometime in the Spring 2023 semester, I had a breakdown because I thought that I wouldn’t be able to handle all of the upper-level math/programming/physics courses (Calc 1/2, Discrete Math, Programming Fundamentals, etc) and that they would mess up my GPA if I didn’t do well in them and I would lose my scholarship. I switched my degree over to Cybersecurity and I like the coursework, but I ..read more

I know that CS majors are among the most lopsided majors where men predominate. I also have heard about how it wasn’t so a long time ago. I saw this blog post by Jon Boeckenstedt, where you can slice & dice data about Bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2022. The College Finder I looked at a few random colleges for CS and got the percentage of women as a proportion of all CS grads last year. CMU 44% Brandeis 42% MIT 39% Brown 38% UC Berkeley 38% Princeton 36% Tufts 35% Stanford 34% Rice 31% BU 31% Harvard 31% WPI 27% Northeastern 27% Ga Tech 25% UGA 24% CWRU 23% CU Boulder 22% UMass 19% U of Roc ..read more

How bad will these Bs affect my admission chances? Sorry if this post is “bad”, Im new. Heres a basic rundown: 3.84 UW 4.51 W 1560 SAT (psat semifinalist) AP classes are weighted out of 5, honors 4.5, regular 4 Applying as pure CS major Had a B in Calculus BC (Junior Year 2nd Semester) B in honors physics equivalent to AP Physics 1 (Junior year 2nd semester) B in Aerospace engineering weighted as 5.0 (Junior Year 1st semester) B in honors chemistry Other Bs were in English junior year How I tried compensating: Fermilab internship with rec letter from mentor AIME qual 2x Participated in ARML 1s ..read more

Hello! I’m a Freshman and I’m kinda lost on the gen-eds I should be taking this Fall 2023. So when I look at my CS 4-year plan all gen eds that I see are (DSNS, DSHS, DSSP,…) and there is NO for example DVUP or SCIS gen-eds on my schedule. So now let’s say I want to choose between three courses which have DSSP,DVUP and DSSP, SCIS and DSSP respectively. Now taking either one wouldn’t have a difference right? since I don’t have a gen-ed labeled as DVUP or SCIS in my 4 year plan right? OR should I take for example the one that fulfills 2 gend-eds because it is important although there isn’t anyth ..read more

Costco is currently selling the M1 Macbook Air w/ 8GB of ram for $800. Is this good enough for a computer science major. From the looks of things, it seems that my school will focus mostly on C++. 2 posts - 2 participants Read full thread ..read more

Hey y’all, considering taking probability theory this summer along with multi and diff eq. I’m doing multi and diff eq thru JHU CTY, and will take linear algebra through them in the fall. However, I’m taking AP stats @ my school during the regular school year. Can I take probability theory? If so, any suggestions on where? I’ve seen the Roger Williams continuing calculus program but any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially those which are accredited without breaking the bank 3 posts - 3 participants Read full thread ..read more

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