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[quote=Anonymous]Op here. There is no statistics major or
minor at DC’s college. The data science major is within the school of engineering and is geared towards careers in engineering and hard sciences, and is a very rigorous/time consuming major comprised of engineering, math and hard sciences classes - DS is in the school of arts & sciences so there is no way as a second semester sophmore he could complete that major by graduation at this point (nor would he want to, I suspect).

There are a variety of classes just called Statistics, but one would not take two of them as they are Statistics for economics majors, Statistics for psych majors, etc, so you take the one that applies to your major.

So unfortunately just telling DS to take a lot of statistics and data science isn’t going to work.

Should I encourage math classes, and if so which ones?

There is a comp sci minor, but are the quant skills needed for IR/poli sci type jobs actual programming skills? His roommate is a comp sci major and told DS to just take an online coding class in R.

I don’t mean to shoot down suggestions, but DS can only work within what is offerred at his college. [/quote]

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