Does Stanford Have a Statistics Major?

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>Does Stanford have a statistics major?</p>

<p>Also, does Stanford admit based on majors or do they not care about your major (I’ve heard people say both, so I don’t know who to believe). </p>

<p>Thanks in advance. :)</p>

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<p>Stanford does not have a statistics major. It has a mathematics and computational science major which is a combination of math, computer science, and statistics. There is a minor in statistics, though. For more information you can go here: [Department</a> of Statistics: Academics - Stanford University](<a href=“http://stat.stanford.edu/academics/undergrad.html]Department”>http://stat.stanford.edu/academics/undergrad.html)</p>

<p>I do not believe Stanford cares about what you want to major in. However, they do need to know what school you are applying to (Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, or Earth Sciences).</p>

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<p>Stanford does not however, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, JHU, Northwestern, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, U Chicago, UMich, UPenn, UNC Chapel Hill, and WUSTL offer it as a major.</p>

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<p>As is common among Stanford majors, Stanford has its own particular spin on a more well-known discipline (like statistics).</p>

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<p>If you really want to do just statistics though, there’s a pretty good “design-your-own-major” plan.</p>

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that is incorrect. You are accepted into the university, and do not need to choose or declare your major till the end of your sophomore year.</p>

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<p>Stanford doesn’t have a statistics major (they do have a minor). In my experience, most who are interested in statistics take the Mathematical & Computational Sciences major. Seems to offer a chance to take all the statistics classes (essentially a major), but with added dashes of CS.</p>

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<p>“and do not need to choose or declare your major till the end of your sophomore year.”</p>

<p>I’ll add that this commonly doesn’t happen. Students will wait until junior year to declare, though the registrar will get a bit mad at you if you haven’t declared by the end of the first quarter of your junior year. And of course, you can change your major later on (it’s mostly a matter of dropping it on Axess and adding another).</p>

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<p>Oops. My bad. I mixed Stanford’s application with another school. :-P</p>