EPTCan you also do this for the placement test, or is that strictly for whatever language you studied in school?
2014 College and University Entrance Thread - Page 6
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
Can you also do this for the placement test, or is that strictly for whatever language you studied in school? | ||
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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Cam Connor
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Disregard
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
Also, I'm pretty sure you take a placement test and if you score high enough that waves the requirement | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On April 15 2014 03:59 n.DieJokes wrote: I got into Columbia! Also, I'm pretty sure you take a placement test and if you score high enough that waves the requirement Wow, congrats! Is this for grad school? Edit: Just read through the thread. That's really cool to go there for a PhD. What are you studying? | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
On April 12 2014 07:27 cam connor wrote: the only employed architects are the stars of romantic comedies I know employed architects in their 50's. One lost his job during 2008 and got a new job in 2011, but he was quite the disorganized and lazy chucklefuck, and if you knew him you would know why he had trouble finding a job. I only know of (brother of an acquaintance) one other architect and I don't think he has a job yet, but I think he just graduated  So I'm officially going to Vanderbilt unless a miracle happens and I get off the Harvard waitlist. Hype Message me if you are going to Vandy as well or have tips to offer a CS + Math student. I'm coming in with 62 credit hours (mostly free electives / gen eds), provided I do adequately on AP exams, so I'm thinking of adding something else, but I'm not exactly sure yet. One thing I'm considering is economics, but I don't know if I could sit through the boring qualitative stuff that basically everyone in the school takes. I really only want to take econometrics-type stuff | ||
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Cam Connor
Canada786 Posts
you could do perfectly in quantitative finance afterwards | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
On April 15 2014 09:55 cam connor wrote: what's your eventual goal with the cs+math? you could do perfectly in quantitative finance afterwards I'm hoping quantitative finance but the thing is that finance is very hard to enter outside of a few select target recruiting schools, and although Vandy is good it doesn't normally send too many (in a given year) to the top firms. So I'm also considering just generic software, though I suppose I will probably specialize a bit more in the coming years I'm guessing there aren't many quants on TL | ||
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Cam Connor
Canada786 Posts
many of my classmates going for trading found themselves competing with undergrads (to be fair though, my buddies usually won over the undergrads, even the one from big name schools like chicago) | ||
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Cam Connor
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
On April 15 2014 10:09 cam connor wrote: a lot of the banks in ny and prop firms in chicago are going straight to undergrad recruiting since they can pay them less than masters students (at least for trading positions) many of my classmates going for trading found themselves competing with undergrads (to be fair though, my buddies usually won over the undergrads, even the one from big name schools like chicago) Ahh, well (like everyone else, probably) I'd really like to get into a bulge bracket Investment Banking Division , since that's where the money and exit opportunities are. I think I need to read up more about what the difference is between being hired as a trader vs. a quant because it was my impression that the two were a bit flexible and that there were a lot of traders with strong quantitative backgrounds these days, and that the good-old-boys'-ivy-league-lacrosse recruiting strategy was becoming less prevalent. | ||
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Ideal26
United States185 Posts
Sooo if anyone is at/going to Rice, I'll be there in a couple months! | ||
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Kleinmuuhg
Vanuatu4091 Posts
I am just finishing my industrial engineering degree this summer, but I am taking the risk and starting to study mathematics instead of starting to work. My school grades and engineering grades have always been prettty good, but obviously there where always some people who were better than me. I got a company to sponsor me throughout my engineering degree and I actually spend a few months working for them in the US last summer, the experience was amazing. I am not sure if that means anything given that the situation in the US might be drastically different. I would love to spend some part of my studies in the US, preferably at a prestigious University and obviously it would be a tremendous help to have a sponsor / scholarship. Oh by the way I studied in Germany and lived in Germany for 22 years so dont think about me as a third world student. Any opinions / advise? | ||
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darthfoley
United States8004 Posts
On April 08 2014 10:53 stormtemplar wrote: Accepted: University of Richmond (My choice) Dickinson College Gettysburg College Wait list Franklin and Marshall Rejected Lafayette College Haverford College I had about a 3.6 GPA and a 2160 on the SAT, (800 in english, which is also my main interest major wise) Seems most people are doing a big university here, but maybe there are some other small school people hereabouts. I go to F&M and am frankly surprised you weren't immediately accepted. Your stats fit in very well with the kids on campus. Sucks, because I haven't seen anyone else on here even apply to F&M besides me. Conversely, I applied to Richmond last year and thought I was a shoe-in, but ended up getting waitlisted. :D | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45333 Posts
On April 12 2014 05:08 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: n.DieJokes or any other Rutgers person: Can you get out of the foreign language requirement for the Honors program if you prove to them that you're already fluent in a foreign language? Can you also do this for the placement test, or is that strictly for whatever language you studied in school? My AP Spanish got me out of 1 of the 2 required foreign language semesters. Had to still take one at Rutgers too. (I'm not fluent.) Who's going to Rutgers NB for sure? :D | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45333 Posts
What are you going to major in, Sentinel? | ||
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
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