<p>My 21 year old D1 read this thread and asked me to post a comment (no kidding!). She said that statistics can be VERY useful for humanities majors. She is a political science major, and has been interviewing for internships. She has landed a couple of great ones (State Dept this semester, with a US senator for the upcoming summer). But she said that several of the positions she looked at wanted statistics background, and she thinks she got some interviews because of some SPSS experience she has on her resume (from a college class). She hasn’t taken college stats (took AP in high school), but plans to possibly overload next year as a senior to squeeze it in because it keeps coming up in interviews. </p>
<p>D2 and I were talking to a bio professor at Johns Hopkins recently about D’s plans to major in biology, and she also commented that statistics is a very useful skill for bio PhD students (which D hopes to be eventually).</p>