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They aren't as hard as assumed, or bragged about by those who passed them, but they aren't easy (if taught at the right depth). With how I operate, it was very hard but only in bursts. I took statistical inference this lats semester, 'hardest stats class taught to undergraduates' per my professor, or at least the most computationally intensive. I only worked in earnest ~15 days of the semester, half before the midterm and half before the final. Never solved a problem outside of those days. But during those days I did almost nothing else. solved every problem in the book that we covered and could solve them on command. The upside is that I have made a good habit of revisiting material afterwards, so I've got most of the standard mathstat stuff on lockdown and eventually I'll have most of the inference I was taught on lockdown too. I seriously learned the material, but mastery takes more time. I won't make any promises for some of the inference questions, as other things are more applicable to mfe prep, but I'll get most of it. (not literally everything able to regurgitate on demand at the moment because I haven't been using it for my internship at all, but give me 5-10 or so minutes on wikipedia for almost any topic and I'm probably back in business.) I am still in absolute dread of a particular type of normal distribution inference with unknown mean and unknown variance though. Just copying down the answer for that problem took an hour and a half, and it was already worked out in front of me.Are these quantitative majors really as difficult as you're describing them to be?
I'm OP btw, and I forgive you @Lukee
Since I've decided to major in Stats and minor in Math, I'm supposed to be enrolled in 3 math classes next term. Is that going to be too difficult? I aced all of the "basic" math/stats courses (calc I,II,III, lin alg, intro to stats, econometrics), but now I'm second guessing myself lol.
Also, how low do you think you can destroy your GPA for a math/stats major to be worth it?
So... not really, but I stand by the fact that there should be weeks where you hardly see anyone. You'll be fine is the point, but its not a business major where you actually are never pressed for your sleep.
It isn't worth is to destroy your GPA, but you need to know this stuff for the job and if you aren't capable and/or willing to work hard enough to learn the material (which will keep your GPA up) then you probably need to reevaluate your plans. That said, if you took all the hardest courses (like stats through inference, measure theory and math through several real analysis/upper lvl other things) than you can get away with a lower GPA than a base Econ graduate anyway.
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