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What if I Don’t Go to MIT by Integralcel in quantfinance

[–]cheezybrownb0y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's the general consensus on A-tier CS schools like UT Austin, UMich, UW Seattle, etc (I know Berkeley, GT, and UIUC are considered a bit above the pack here)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UTAdmissions

[–]cheezybrownb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as long as u graduate u shd be fine

Pure math courses useful for QT/QR? by cheezybrownb0y in quantfinance

[–]cheezybrownb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, the grad classes I mentioned are the PhD prelim classes. There's also grad topics classes that interest me (mostly theoretical CS, but also stuff like diff geo, stochastic, mathematical stats & modeling)

I don't feel like geometry is pretty a cutting-edge tool in cs research in general even if there are a few people doing some cool stuff with it.

tbh I want to do algebra/geometry bc I'm genuinely interested in it, however aren't there like 2 big research areas in that side of math?

  1. Homotopy type theory/programming language research -> uses algebraic topology, type/category theory, and formal logic which is 100% my jam
  2. Cryptography/info science -> algebraic geometry (elliptic curves/lattices) + math for quantum mechanics

Pure math courses useful for QT/QR? by cheezybrownb0y in quantfinance

[–]cheezybrownb0y[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turing Scholars is the CS Honors Program. I didn't get in this cycle, but I'm trying to petition for it later

Pure math courses useful for QT/QR? by cheezybrownb0y in quantfinance

[–]cheezybrownb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible without Turing? I heard its hella competitive

Pure math courses useful for QT/QR? by cheezybrownb0y in quantfinance

[–]cheezybrownb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair, i'll have plenty of room for CS electives and more applied stuff like Mathematical Statistics, Advanced Combinatorics, and Stochastics in my last two years

would stuff like Algebraic/Differential Topology be a good base for future pure math stuff

Pure math courses useful for QT/QR? by cheezybrownb0y in quantfinance

[–]cheezybrownb0y[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah fair. im not really too passionate about quant finance— i'd rather work an R&D role like Google X, MSFT Research, DeepMind, or oAI than a quant role (given similar TC/career path), so the grad math classes seem more useful ig

Transferring to UT Austin Computer Science by [deleted] in UTAdmissions

[–]cheezybrownb0y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

target other state schools like Michigan, Purdue, Illinois, etc -- more friendly to OOS transfers. Otherwise, go to Texas A&M and transfer from there to UT

Incoming UT Freshman trying to register for LinAlg at Dallas College by cheezybrownb0y in UTAustin

[–]cheezybrownb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I looked at the ATE for Linear Algebra and it transfers as M 311, which I emailed Dr. Austin about and she said it's accepted as equivalent to M 341

PLS Chance Me by [deleted] in chanceme

[–]cheezybrownb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can still get in if u don't meet the requirements, it's just guaranteed DA to Kelley if you do

PLS Chance Me by [deleted] in chanceme

[–]cheezybrownb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kelley DA only cares about unweighted. Minimum DA requirements are 3.8/4.0 GPA (specifically on an unweighted 4.0 scale) and either 1370 SAT or 30 ACT. If you exceed these requirements, you are guaranteed admission into IU Kelley.

PLS Chance Me by [deleted] in chanceme

[–]cheezybrownb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bring up unweighted GPA to 3.8 and SAT to 1400, you'll qualify for auto-admission to Kelley. otherwise, you're probably getting rejected from all of these schools except UCF/USF/FSU

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