Scholarship Application

1. See your Math Department faculty advisor every semester for advice about classes and degree requirements. The advisor can be of your choosing, but the default assignment is the department chair (Dr. Fisher, mailto:fishrobe@isu.edu).

2. Get started on the Calculus sequence immediately.

3. Get through the common Math/Stat core courses efficiently and early.

4. Take at most three Math/Stat classes per semester.

5. If you are interested in grad school in statistics, Math 423-4 is recommended.

6. Statistics major often minor in fields were analysis of data is practiced: for example, business, biology, sociology, psychology, economics. In some cases a class from another department is approved for credit in the statistics major.

7. If you want to get a job in industry, take English 307

(Professional and Technical Writing).

Sample Course of Study (This is only a sample; variations are possible.)

	Fall term	Spring term
Freshman year	Math 170 CS 181	Math 175 Math 240
Sophomore year	Math 275 Math 350	Math 326 Math 352
Junior year	Math 457 Math 360	Math 458 Math 406
Senior year	Math 450 Math 459	Math 451

Math Department prerequisite tree

• Math Department prerequisite tree for Stat majors.

Other links/resources

• ISU Math Club.
• Career center, American Statistical Association .
• Careers involving probability and statistics, University of Texas, Austin.
• Careers, Royal Statistical Society.
• Actuarial careers .
• Careers in mathematics.
• Research experiences for undergrads.
• The Graduate Record Exam and the Graduate Record Exam subject test in mathematics.
• Mathematics Association of America.
• American Mathematical Society.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
• ISU 2009-2010 online Undergraduate Catalog .
• Math Department scholarships.