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A Statistics Trap
Here's a thought for those of you planning to pursue advanced degrees in areas other than the physical sciences, notably education and nursing. When you apply to graduate school, you may have a surprise waiting for you that concerns the statistics course you probably took as an undergraduate.
Many graduate programs require that you present credit for a statistics course similar to OCCC's Math 2013 with a "C" or better as a prerequisite for admission to graduate school. The catch is that you must have taken that course within 5, 7, or 10 years of your admission (it varies by program).
Be sure to take that time requirement into account in your planning; otherwise, you'll wind up having to take the course again or--as two of my private students have done--sign up for an on-line course and then end up having to pay a tutor $25 per hour to coach your long-forgotten statistics skills back into a sharp enough state to pass the course again. That's a much easier task when you're twenty-something than when you're thirty- or forty-something, by the way.
This advice is, I suppose, a bit like a dentist giving fluoride treatments. It tends to decrease the volume of business for the service provider. At the moment, however, I have all the statistics tutoring business I can handle and then some, so mathophobes, beware! Forewarned is forearmed.
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