So many math majors

[Anonymous]

Is this a new thing? The kid from New Jersey who thought he was screwed, endless questions here for next cycle or disappointed parents from this cycle whose math kids have to go to Europe.

What is going on with math… When did it become the hottest major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a new thing? The kid from New Jersey who thought he was screwed, endless questions here for next cycle or disappointed parents from this cycle whose math kids have to go to Europe.

What is going on with math… When did it become the hottest major?

It's a way to get into tech/FAANG without the competitiveness of CS. It may be competitive, but not as competitive as CS. Students use it as a proxy.

[Anonymous]

Parents have been pushing Kumon, Mathnasium, RSM, Beast, AoPS, etc from preschool days onward. It’s all these kids are repeatedly exposed to.

[Anonymous]

Which type of math is becoming popular? Is it just applied math and statistics. I can’t see this many kids studying pure math. It’s super abstract and doesn’t have as much career value as other things.

[Anonymous]

Ai can't math.

[Anonymous]

Math is popular because it's a good major for quant and ai jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Math is popular because it's a good major for quant and ai jobs.

Those usually require PhDs. Most of these kids aren’t going to do PhDs.

[Anonymous]

It’s now oversubscribed/impacted.
Plan on going to Europe with top stats. Or pivot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ai can't math.

Sure it can…it’s completing grad level work these days through brute force
If trained exclusively on difficult math problems.

It’s quite upsetting to the Math world.

[Anonymous]

How do you know it’s the hottest major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math is popular because it's a good major for quant and ai jobs.

Those usually require PhDs. Most of these kids aren’t going to do PhDs.

that’s not true. There are people with math undergrad degrees who become actuaries, data scientists and climb the ladder at hedge funds without having a PhD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math is popular because it's a good major for quant and ai jobs.

Those usually require PhDs. Most of these kids aren’t going to do PhDs.

that’s not true. There are people with math undergrad degrees who become actuaries, data scientists and climb the ladder at hedge funds without having a PhD

That’s different from what they are talking about. You are correct that actuaries and math majors working in finance usually only have bachelors degrees.

However, quant and ai jobs (job titles of “Quantitative Researcher” and “Research Scientist @ Tech Company”) are research jobs and thus require PhDs.

Totally different from actuaries and hedge fund managers.

[Anonymous]

Quant research requires a PhD but quant dev and quant trader jobs do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which type of math is becoming popular? Is it just applied math and statistics. I can’t see this many kids studying pure math. It’s super abstract and doesn’t have as much career value as other things.

Applied math is super popular. Stats...not so much, because data analysts make less and most good stats careers are A) Hard asf and B) require a Masters/PhD. Not saying that applied math isn't hard, but it is a much easier ride going through Differential Equations and Math Modeling versus upper div statistics courses.

[Anonymous]

Employers want problem solvers that they can train to learn the business. Math majors have demonstrated analytical and abstract problem solving skills. Given the sorry state of K-12 math education in the US math majors are going to become rarer as time goes on. Smart major in today’s unpredictable job market.