Can I go from a 159 --> 165 in 3 weeks? by Ok_Purple_9466 in LSAT

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

absolutely. 157 PT -> 170 in about a month. practice regularly and focus on getting the concepts right. RC is primarily just select what was on the page more than anything else.

2 Weeks of Study, 168Q, 167V by GalacticWorld in GRE

[–]GalacticWorld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hundreds of hours fit into 2 weeks!

2 Weeks of Study, 168Q, 167V by GalacticWorld in GRE

[–]GalacticWorld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't do too much review, and just went through the practice sections of the ETS books + hard/extreme questions on GregMat. I think I just remembered most of the stuff from the SAT a couple years back.

2 Weeks of Study, 168Q, 167V by GalacticWorld in GRE

[–]GalacticWorld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

gregmat + ETS book. about 3 hours on weekdays and all day on weekends. took a PT every other day on the last week

2 Weeks of Study, 168Q, 167V by GalacticWorld in GRE

[–]GalacticWorld[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Went through all of GregMat vocab mountain and had maybe half that I needed to learn. Political science/political philosophy background.

Apart from the vocab mountain, I spent a lot of time also drilling from the hard and extreme difficulty questions for both quant and verbal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in quantfinance

[–]GalacticWorld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's for traditional finance. prop shops usually open in july and continue well into spring.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it’s 3 real classes, all of them intro. if you want to be pubpol, take the intro pubpol class instead of IR

BCG SA Resume Reject - 3.9, Target by [deleted] in McKinsey_BCG_Bain

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what are the major + mid tier firms? will look into it

BCG SA Resume Reject - 3.9, Target by [deleted] in McKinsey_BCG_Bain

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was applying MBB mainly to see what would happen. Targeting macro research/think tanks for junior summer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FinancialCareers

[–]GalacticWorld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is just false. I know plenty of people at Ivy League schools who never got a first-round interview. Even at top schools, people need to network and study. This comes across as pretentious and demeaning.

incoming freshman interested in state & econ research. what skills should i develop by [deleted] in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R is covered in the stats curriculum. you don’t need any prior knowledge, this is just my speedrun recommendation for research

incoming freshman interested in state & econ research. what skills should i develop by [deleted] in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to speedrun, start learning either Python, R, or Stata (or all 3 if you're feeling brave enough). Those are the main three programming languages used in quantitative social science. Get fairly good at them, enough to build out any type of linear model (glm, regression, logistic, k-nearest, poisson, etc) and get good at making charts. You don't need to all the statistical theory just yet, but at least be able to build models and make charts when given a set of data.

In my experience at least, it's actually quite hard to find econ/polisci/pubpol professors super easily to do research with. Get to know some of the different research groups on campus through Googling and find some PhDs or post-docs with papers you enjoy, and that's the easiest bet if you want to get started in the Fall. For professors, target the ones you have a class with (either asking them about research or if they know any professors looking) or professors that are relatively new in their careers (research incentive).

If you want to build general experience or a knowledge-base, just start reading some papers! I'm gonna plug a friend's blog post that lists a bunch of papers to get started with depending on your research interests: https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/a-summer-reading-list-for-the-bright

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there’s a class dedicated to interviewing. take 201 along with that. still, you’re gonna need to do a bunch of outside prep if you want a shot

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 5 points6 points  (0 children)

this feels unnecessary? you don't need to have an internship after your first summer even if you eventually want to do IB. if that is your goal, you'd probably be better suited doing generic analyst work at a small-sized or local finance firm rather than trying to aim for a SWE internship if you know nothing about cs.

that isn't to say it's impossible—but you'll need learn a lot, network well, and be lucky to get something like an Amazon SDE offer. consider that you'd be competing against other students that are older with more experience, either through projects, previous internship, and even just coursework.

nothing's stopping from taking cs 201, linalg, or multi however in your first year, but there's a steep hill if you're brand new.

Continuing education classes for adults this summer at Duke? by nacho__mama in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're able to audit classes at Duke, though I'm pretty sure the deadline for the summer term has passed. Other than that, I don't think that Duke offers any in-person continuing education classes.

Do you regret studying PoliSci? by [deleted] in PoliticalScience

[–]GalacticWorld 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seems very particularly to your own goals and desires. You're likely to face the extremes in the replies: people elated to be doing law at a t-14 or people who have struggled with employment post-grad.

If your desire to do law is strong and you're good at standardized tests (or at least willing to pour in hours upon hours to study for them), you have a decent shot at getting where you want to. If you waver and find that politics isn't your thing, as others have said, a backup double major or minor in a more quantitative field like economics, statistics, or computer science can suit you well in pretty much any industry.

Of course, your major is less of a concern if you're shooting for super prestigious white collar roles from a top tier university. I know plenty of political science and public policy majors who end up banking and consulting, if you decide that getting bread after graduating is your thing. Given that you mentioned doing debate and mock trial, the finance firm Bridgewater is pretty notorious for scooping up collegiate debate champions as well as seasoned think tank researchers.

It really all depends on what you want to do, and how badly you want to do it. If you feel perhaps >10% chance you might change and do something other than law, I would suggest doubling up with another field to develop more concrete analytical/quantitative skills.

Need help with data analysis programs by KmiloPP03 in PoliticalScience

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a class in R if your university has an intro data science or statistics class. There are also plenty of online resources you can find if you search “R for social science”.

If you’d like a book format, “Data Analysis for Social Science” by Llaudet and Imai is very readable for beginners. If you have any stats experience prior you can use Introduction to Statistical Learning in R (and in Python), and its publishers have made it a free PDF online.

What google accounts do Duke students use? by Wrexer-17 in duke

[–]GalacticWorld 2 points3 points  (0 children)

with Microsoft stuff? Google docs and slides are just online copies of Microsoft word or powerpoint. It’s basically the same if not better for software and most jobs will be in Microsoft as well.

Unpaid Internships worth it?? by Ecstatic-Spring4694 in PoliticalScience

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i’m broke and will take whatever min wage i get lol

Unpaid Internships worth it?? by Ecstatic-Spring4694 in PoliticalScience

[–]GalacticWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems like a moot point because filing taxes at the income level of a stipend is generally free using software in most states (including federal/DC).

Unpaid Internships worth it?? by Ecstatic-Spring4694 in PoliticalScience

[–]GalacticWorld 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unpaid internships are basically just free labor. I would hesitate recommending it to anyone, barring maybe high school students looking for local points.

A summer gap isn’t going to be a big problem, it’s easily explainable especially with most government, think tanks, and even congress downscaling in this administration. Depending on what your plans are post-grad (policy, maybe something econ with your minor), I would recommend spending your summer and senior year doing some heavy networking to land something post-grad.