| It's hard to gauge how taking stat 430 as opposed to something else affected me, holding other things constant, but I do know that my knowledge of stat/probability is generally more complete than my friends who took 101/111. I never have and doubt I ever will have to think about moment generating functions or stuff like that in an undergraduate finance class, but I think that having the extra background has paid off.
Don't worry about 'business application.' All that means is that they go into less depth and have more examples, which are generally 'business examples'. Stat
430 covers everything in stat 101 and then some.
As for grades on the tests, that's not really a reliable measure of difficulty, as teachers can make tests as hard or as easy as they want. I think our class averages were about 75 - 80%. Ultimately, how well you do is a relative thing. |