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If so, get in here and make yourself known! Also, what school?
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I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? University of Toronto
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Math and Statistics. I picked McMaster because apartments are cheap AND because it's a small faculty. I'm one of only 65 math students.
I think it's better to major in math/stats and get an actuary job, as opposed to majoring in Actuarial Science and trying to get an actuary job. I can just take all the stats/prob courses as a math major.
What's your plan? Also, are you good at math?
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Well I'm planning on majoring in actuarial science. I might even double major with compsci too but it sounds like quite a bit of work so I'm not entirely sure yet although I think an actsci major could also do some stats jobs. And I like to think of myself as being good at math lol otherwise I wouldn't have applied for math XD University of Toronto
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Good luck. I noticed lots of universities now have a specific Actuarial Science major since lots of people wanna do it now.
Let's try some math problems together. From a book I have:
Show that it is impossible to find (real or complex) numbers a, b, c, A, B, and C such that the equation
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = (ax + by + cz)(Ax + By + Cz) holds identically for independent variable x, y, and z.
Ideas?
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TotoSmith wrote:I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? Could you tell me what average you need for Waterloo's math program? I've applied there as my backup, and I've yet to hear from them and my top choice (UTSG comp sci). I have around an 83 average, would that be enough, considering that the requirement is stated as "low 80s" and program is still open on OUAC? I applied to computational math, in case it makes a difference.
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Ziralia wrote:TotoSmith wrote:I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? Could you tell me what average you need for Waterloo's math program? I've applied there as my backup, and I've yet to hear from them and my top choice (UTSG comp sci). I have around an 83 average, would that be enough, considering that the requirement is stated as "low 80s" and program is still open on OUAC? I applied to computational math, in case it makes a difference. Their math program requires: AT LEAST a 95 average or higher. A letter of recommendation from a math teacher. Writing of the Euclid math competition.
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rightsaidfred wrote:Ziralia wrote:TotoSmith wrote:I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? Could you tell me what average you need for Waterloo's math program? I've applied there as my backup, and I've yet to hear from them and my top choice (UTSG comp sci). I have around an 83 average, would that be enough, considering that the requirement is stated as "low 80s" and program is still open on OUAC? I applied to computational math, in case it makes a difference. Their math program requires: AT LEAST a 95 average or higher. A letter of recommendation from a math teacher. Writing of the Euclid math competition. http://www.findoutmore.u...ca/programs/Mathematics
If so, then why does it say "Individual selection from the low 80s"?
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Because that's the minimum you need to apply.
Do some deeper research into the program. You'll see that their Accounting program, for example, has something ridiculous like a 97 cutoff average. PLUS everything else that they require like the letter and participation in the test.
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rightsaidfred wrote:Because that's the minimum you need to apply.
Do some deeper research into the program. You'll see that their Accounting program, for example, has something ridiculous like a 97 cutoff average. PLUS everything else that they require like the letter and participation in the test. Thanks for the info! I have submitted the letter and participated in the contest, but I guess my average just won't cut it. I'm assuming that not many people applied/got accepted this year since they're still open to applications
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Basically. Waterloo is a stuck up place for show offs, essentially. Depressing, gloomy cities and campus, etc
It's for undergrad. You'll get the same math education anywhere.
Also jobmine sucks.
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Ziralia wrote:TotoSmith wrote:I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? Could you tell me what average you need for Waterloo's math program? I've applied there as my backup, and I've yet to hear from them and my top choice (UTSG comp sci). I have around an 83 average, would that be enough, considering that the requirement is stated as "low 80s" and program is still open on OUAC? I applied to computational math, in case it makes a difference. I'm not sure especially because university admissions can be really wacky sometimes. I didn't get into UW math. My average was 85-86 and I had 90's in english and calc. However, I finished with only an 80 in advanced function because I didn't do very well on my diploma exam (part of the Alberta curriculum) which was worth 50% of my final mark. I think that as long as your math and english marks are all in the mid-80's, you should be okay for both of your programs even though it's getting kinda late :/ Good luck though! University of Toronto
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rightsaidfred wrote:Basically. Waterloo is a stuck up place for show offs, essentially. Depressing, gloomy cities and campus, etc
It's for undergrad. You'll get the same math education anywhere.
Also jobmine sucks. I actually wanted to tranfer into their computer science program after first year and, seeing as the same courses are required, it wouldn't be too much of a problem. I've still got my hopes up for U of T, tho. Either that, or I'm going to Mac or UTM for Mathematics and Statistics with a major in Computer Science.
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rightsaidfred wrote:Ziralia wrote:TotoSmith wrote:I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? Could you tell me what average you need for Waterloo's math program? I've applied there as my backup, and I've yet to hear from them and my top choice (UTSG comp sci). I have around an 83 average, would that be enough, considering that the requirement is stated as "low 80s" and program is still open on OUAC? I applied to computational math, in case it makes a difference. Their math program requires: AT LEAST a 95 average or higher. A letter of recommendation from a math teacher. Writing of the Euclid math competition. This is factually incorrect, the only program that I know of that requires mid to high nineties at waterloo is the math/ca program; the general math program I know for a fact is generally low to mid 80's. On topic, I will be attending UofT St. George for math specialist 
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going to carleton for double major in math and CS! the school for math has around 100 students that enroll each year.. so much less competition than waterloo. and carleton's CS program is one of the best in the country so im stocked! Carleton University
Computer Science- Software Engineering Stream Co-op 2017
Double Minor in Music and Mathematics
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rightsaidfred wrote:Basically. Waterloo is a stuck up place for show offs, essentially. Depressing, gloomy cities and campus, etc
It's for undergrad. You'll get the same math education anywhere.
Also jobmine sucks. You have been seriously misinformed. Either that or you just dislike UW.
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Two of my friends go to UW.
One has been there for 5 years. He said he never got a job through jobmine and always had to find work during coop periods on his own time. Sometimes, he couldn't even do that, so he'd just volunteer in a lab instead.
The other agrees. He got work, but found it on his own.
If you've ever been to UW, it's a gloomy depressing place. Pictures, my personal experience, and their words confirm this.
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rightsaidfred wrote:Ziralia wrote:TotoSmith wrote:I am! I was hoping to go to UW but I'll be going to UofT in September :) What about you? What areyou planning to major in? Could you tell me what average you need for Waterloo's math program? I've applied there as my backup, and I've yet to hear from them and my top choice (UTSG comp sci). I have around an 83 average, would that be enough, considering that the requirement is stated as "low 80s" and program is still open on OUAC? I applied to computational math, in case it makes a difference. Their math program requires: AT LEAST a 95 average or higher. A letter of recommendation from a math teacher. Writing of the Euclid math competition. I just finished first year. I got in with an 87%, a terrible mark on the Euclid. I had good extracurriculars. Unless they've bumped the requirements up a full 8 percent in one year, you are incorrect sir. rightsaidfred wrote:Two of my friends go to UW.
One has been there for 5 years. He said he never got a job through jobmine and always had to find work during coop periods on his own time. Sometimes, he couldn't even do that, so he'd just volunteer in a lab instead.
The other agrees. He got work, but found it on his own.
If you've ever been to UW, it's a gloomy depressing place. Pictures, my personal experience, and their words confirm this.
I just finished first year math/business administration (single degree), and I'm working at Scotiabank, co-op job. Waterloo doesn't look like UofT or Queens or something, simply because it's only about 50 years old. Of course it doesn't have architecture that predates its existence. The first few times I went to the campus, I didn't much like it myself. But if you look at some of the newer buildings (SAF building, Math3, DC, Nanotech), they're all really nice. The campus grows on you really fast, and I can't imagine myself anywhere else. It's only depressing if you choose not to have fun. That being said though, if you choose your school based on which has the prettiest buildings, all the more power to you, I wish you best of luck.
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rightsaidfred wrote:
Show that it is impossible to find (real or complex) numbers a, b, c, A, B, and C such that the equation
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = (ax + by + cz)(Ax + By + Cz) holds identically for independent variable x, y, and z.
Ideas?
lol... no clue. How do you do it
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rightsaidfred wrote:Good luck. I noticed lots of universities now have a specific Actuarial Science major since lots of people wanna do it now.
Let's try some math problems together. From a book I have:
Show that it is impossible to find (real or complex) numbers a, b, c, A, B, and C such that the equation
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = (ax + by + cz)(Ax + By + Cz) holds identically for independent variable x, y, and z.
Ideas? If i understand the question correctly, wouldn't the following conditions satisfy the equation? A = 1/a B = 1/b C = 1/c a = -c Edit: realized my mistake. The real conditions are a^2 = -(b^2), a^2 = -(c^2), c^2 = -(b^2) which leads to a = b = c = 0. Which makes A, B, C infinitely large, which is obviously not possible thus there exists no a,b,c,A,B,C to satisfy the equation.
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