<p>I’m interested in the following (not necessarily combined) majors:
Finance
Mathematics
Comp Sci</p>
<p>Can anyone offer any info on them?
Here are some questions to start you off :
How are the Finance Fellows Programs? For example, the Lemma Senbet fund, Quantitative Finance Fellows, Accelerated Finance Fellows… etc.
How is Math 340/341? I took Multivariable calculus and ordinary differential equations 10th grade… would this class be difficult for me?
How is Mathematics of Finance?
What is a typical Statistics Track?
How are the comp sci exemption exams (in particular, Discrete Structures?)
How time intensive are classes in each of the programs… does this change over time?
How are the students in each of the programs? And how are the top students?
How is recruiting for students in each of the programs? And what about the top students?
Which classes from these majors offer H-Versions? Are they significantly better?</p>
<p>How is it that Testudo hasn’t flown away yet? xD</p>
<p>The only input I can offer is regarding the Math classes…if you’ve got a strong background, you probably won’t find the math courses that difficult, but you will find that they are very time consuming. Unlike some other classes, from D1, she found it annoying that there was ALWAYS homework. She is/was a weirdo and always liked to work ahead in classes, but couldn’t in math, because they hadn’t covered the info yet. Therefore, she always had math homework looming over her. She’s biased, however, and never enjoyed taking math just for the sake of taking math. Of course, all her classes now are VERY math based physics and astronomy classes. Her experience with Comp Sci was that as long as you didn’t wait until the last minute to start working on assignments, the workload was doable (but she didn’t take a lot of comp sci classes). In at least one of her classes, they did an interesting thing and to be able to run her programs to see if they were correct, there was a limited number of times you could do it in one 24-hour period. The people who waited until the last minute only had their 3 tries (or whatever it was) for the last day. However, people who started earlier had many more opportunities to test their code.</p>
<p>In general, you will likely find that as you go along, the workload gets more time consuming and difficult as the course material gets more difficult. That’s pretty much expected for most classes in most subject areas, I think.</p>
<p>Also, one more question… for honors students… a) what are the reqs in terms of lectures/h-series and b) Are you required to take HONR 100? For example, if you got accepted into the Smith school, do you take Freshman Fellows or HONR 100? Or both?</p>
<p>If you’re in University Honors, you need to have a 3.2 GPA and 15 Honors Credits (made up of Honors Seminars and H-Version classes, and at least 9 of them must be from Honors Seminars). I don’t know about the Freshman Fellows question, but you do need an Honors Colloquium course which is usually HONR100.</p>
<p>I don’t know I’ve never took one. One of your questions was which H-version classes there were in the major, so I thought I’d post the list for you. I’ve heard they’re smaller and somewhat harder, though not always.</p>
<p>D’s experience is like what somebodynew posted…most of them were the same except for some kind of additional project with a report or presentation…</p>
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know anything about the other questions :)</p>