Actuary?

College Majors
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<p>Anyone here thought about this?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=3[/url]”>http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Looks very interesting and they make a lot of money; however there seem to be a lot of difficult tests to pass.</p>

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<p>yup… I have… Anyway, just to let you know more about the monetary rewards of such a career… My friend’s brother is a Fellow with the UK actuarial organisation (don’t know the exact name… think it’s something like Institute of Actuaries)… When I asked my friend how his brother’s pay was like, he only had one word - “obscene”.</p>

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<p>sweet - I’m thinking of that or the foreign service as a career.</p>

<p>I’m also thinking of double majoring in economics as math, which should fit well if I pursue the actuarial path.</p>

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<p>cool… that’s the pretty standard path that an aspiring actuary would take i guess… but in my opinion, let’s say that you’re highly talented and inclined towards maths/statistics/probability then perhaps you could consider taking up a minor in maths or econs or something along those lines while majoring in something else (that means opening up MORE opportunities for yourself, isn’t that great?) and register for the first few actuarial exams on your own and see if you make the cut… if you don’t… at least you won’t feel bad that you did not at least give the actuarial career a shot… if you do… congrats man… you’re on your way to more than 10k a month…</p>

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<p>which colleges are good for actuary?</p>

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<p>erm… i’ve no idea… only have the 2005 usnews rankings for the top 5 undergrad “insurance” programs</p>

<p>they are:</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Pennsylvania -WHARTON (duh…)</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin - Madison*</li>
<li>Georgia State University (Robinson)</li>
<li>University of Texas - Austin (McCombs)</li>
<li>University of Georgia (Terry)*</li>
</ol>

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<p>NYU has a major in actuarial science, a friend of mine considered going there last year.</p>

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<p>That insurance rating isn’t really relavant for actuary. Just go to a school that is good in Statistics.</p>