[Hathlan]

(Original post by Narev)
Well, the Universities would probably take you in with a decent personal statement and research proposal - I know someone who has an offer from Harvard from Imperial, and his marks are around the 70-80ish range, without any interesting extra curricular activities and stuff. You'd also probably get by any screening process - I was asked by an Ivy League University prof whether there was a different grading scheme (in Warwick), because my marks seemed to be quite poor. Which is I suppose kind of true, since 70-80ish would probably be a C and quite bad in the US.

I don't have a research proposal, I thought the whole point of going to the US was to get some taught years so I can put off deciding exactly what I'm going to do...

[Narev]

Well, I suppose the research proposal would kind of make up for not doing much extra-curricular stuff at University. It probably doesn't make much difference whether you have a research proposal (or not), you'd still have to go through the first year of coursework - although perhaps replacing some modules with higher level ones, depending on the modules you did in Warwick / Cambridge.

I didn't have a research proposal, though I did write about what areas I was interested in (plus mentioned some of the other stuff I did at Warwick), and had HOD as one of my references. Maybe you can do the same and get Colin Sparrow to write one of your references too!

[Hathlan]

(Original post by ttoby)
The days when I used to get marks like that

Measure theory was quite a hard course and yeah there were a few nasty questions on the exam but the marks came out okayish. Not sure what you mean by FA analysis but if you mean functional analysis then part 1 was fairly easy but I think i must have made some massive mistakes on the exam because my mark came out much lower than I expected. For part 2 I learned the hard way that it's impossible to revise off of handwritten notes and that past papers don't necessarily bear any similarity whatsoever to the paper you actually sit.

Yeah, sorry, FA analysis was a typo. And I only did FA I, I can't talk about how II went. I think with FA I you might have been unlucky in that (I suspect) they would mark really harshly to compensate for it being such an easy paper.

[sa6opopov]

Hello!
I have a question about the math and economics degree and specifically to which department,the math or the economic one,you apply.

[jj193]

You apply to maths, I think. Although most the degree ends up being economics.
The first year has the same core as maths.

after that I think it follows the following lines, but I might be wrong:
Second year is transitional and third year is purely economics. The first: second: third years are weighted 10: 30: 60, so idealistically maths contributes to 25% of your degree/classification.

[sa6opopov]

Thank you for your response!Now since the math and economics degree is administered by the math department,this means that the entry requirements(especially language requirements and STEP) are the same as for the Faculty of Science,right?

[ttoby]

(Original post by sa6opopov)
Thank you for your response!Now since the math and economics degree is administered by the math department,this means that the entry requirements(especially language requirements and STEP) are the same as for the Faculty of Science,right?

Not all Faculty of Science courses have the same offer but in this case, maths&economics has the same offer as maths, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/unde...2z/maths/gl11/

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by Narev)
Oh dear. Just found out Larbi Alili is lecturing MORE next year. MORSE students lose Jon Warren for MSB, but Maths students gain Jon Warren (and Saul Jacka) for their replacement module for MSA and MSB.

Looks like MORSE year 2s will not have a good time.

Or maybe this is done on purpose, since while both Jon Warren and Saul Jacka are good lecturers, they tend to set easy exams, whereas there might be technically harder exams now for Year 2 stats modules...

Yay, tell me more! More things!
I suppose that the lecturer for Stochastic Processes will also be changing, as well as that for Forecasting & Control (or whatever it will be called): all in all it's quite a different landscape.

Funnily enough, I noticed that the online course handbooks were updated in --June (I think)-- July, but still contain last year's course structure.
Can't wait for the lecture lists and the timetable and eeeee, it's exciting.

[Narev]

(Original post by placenta medicae talpae)
Yay, tell me more! More things!
I suppose that the lecturer for Stochastic Processes will also be changing, as well as that for Forecasting & Control (or whatever it will be called): all in all it's quite a different landscape.

Funnily enough, I noticed that the online course handbooks were updated in --June (I think)-- July, but still contain last year's course structure.
Can't wait for the lecture lists and the timetable and eeeee, it's exciting.

I got these lecturer names (and course descriptions) from module list on Stats website - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/modules/. Looks like new talent are lecturing some Y1/Y2 modules - but Y3/Y4 remain roughly unchanged / looks like the pre 2010 lecturer list (except for lecturers who are retiring / retired).

[placenta medicae talpae]

For anyone looking for an economics book which is a good introduction ahead of next year ... then I have two!
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics volumes 1 and 2 can both be found on Amazon for under a tenner each, and are definitely worth reading.

EDIT: For maths, part 1 of http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~sa.../M312Notes.pdf looks like quite a decent introduction too, and might be useful for MA132 Foundations.

(Original post by Narev)
I got these lecturer names (and course descriptions) from module list on Stats website - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/modules/. Looks like new talent are lecturing some Y1/Y2 modules - but Y3/Y4 remain roughly unchanged / looks like the pre 2010 lecturer list (except for lecturers who are retiring / retired).

I imagine that many of the level 3 and 4 options haven't had their pages updated yet, judging by the lecturers of Actuarial Methods and Advanced Topics in Biostats (different lecturers listed at the top and in the body of the piece).

[sa6opopov]

(Original post by ttoby)
Not all Faculty of Science courses have the same offer but in this case, maths&economics has the same offer as maths, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/unde...2z/maths/gl11/

Thank you very much for the information.My main concern is about the english language requirements because for math they want IELTS overall 6.0 and minimum 5.5 in each component.However,for economics they want IELTS overall 7.0 and minimum 6.5 in each component.So,is it true that for the math and economics degree,since it is administered by the maths department,they will require the standard IELTS results for the math degree,or they will insist to have better results,because in the first year you have one economic module and in the end of the second year you will transfer to the economic department?

[ttoby]

(Original post by sa6opopov)
Thank you very much for the information.My main concern is about the english language requirements because for math they want IELTS overall 6.0 and minimum 5.5 in each component.However,for economics they want IELTS overall 7.0 and minimum 6.5 in each component.So,is it true that for the math and economics degree,since it is administered by the maths department,they will require the standard IELTS results for the math degree,or they will insist to have better results,because in the first year you have one economic module and in the end of the second year you will transfer to the economic department?

The course is from the maths department so reading off the table in http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/unde...pply/language/ it would follow that the faculty of science requirements would apply.

[izmi308]

Hi all, MMath offer holder here! I am an international student from Malaysia and I can't wait to get there even though I am afraid thinking how will it be for me there later in the future, but yeah I believe I'll adapt. I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I am going to bring Macbook Pro 13inch to Warwick thus I need opinion from any of you about using Mac for lecture and assignments, light gaming and web browsing.

And Seniors, I really need your help here (if there is any here, & those who have knowledge in this are welcome too). May I know what softwares that we need to use, and is it available for Mac? How much would it cost me if there is? Thanks in advance and sorry for the questions asked.

[ttoby]

(Original post by izmi308)
Hi all, MMath offer holder here! I am an international student from Malaysia and I can't wait to get there even though I am afraid thinking how will it be for me there later in the future, but yeah I believe I'll adapt. I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I am going to bring Macbook Pro 13inch to Warwick thus I need opinion from any of you about using Mac for lecture and assignments, light gaming and web browsing.

And Seniors, I really need your help here (if there is any here, & those who have knowledge in this are welcome too). May I know what softwares that we need to use, and is it available for Mac? How much would it cost me if there is? Thanks in advance and sorry for the questions asked.

I'm doing mmath but I don't have a mac so I can't share any experiences with it. Much of the course content is produced as pdfs so you'll be reading through those a lot. In your first year you'll be using matlab for one of the modules. There is a free version of this called octave but I haven't checked if either of these are available for macs. In any case, many people would use the university computers to do the homeworks here.

You'll also need some sort of latex software for your second year essay and fourth year project. There are various versions available made by different people and many of them are free but again, I don't know what's out there for macs. Also the software can sometimes be a bit complicated to install which is a pain so a good alternative I found is scribtex which is web based and free if you don't need to make many documents.

But most of the time, you would be using the laptop for personal Internet use so the biggest factor is how well it performs there.

[izmi308]

(Original post by ttoby)
I'm doing mmath but I don't have a mac so I can't share any experiences with it. Much of the course content is produced as pdfs so you'll be reading through those a lot. In your first year you'll be using matlab for one of the modules. There is a free version of this called octave but I haven't checked if either of these are available for macs. In any case, many people would use the university computers to do the homeworks here.

You'll also need some sort of latex software for your second year essay and fourth year project. There are various versions available made by different people and many of them are free but again, I don't know what's out there for macs. Also the software can sometimes be a bit complicated to install which is a pain so a good alternative I found is scribtex which is web based and free if you don't need to make many documents.

But most of the time, you would be using the laptop for personal Internet use so the biggest factor is how well it performs there.

*sigh*
But I feel relieved that you say most of you use university computers to do homework, so does it means that the computer there are preinstalled with softwares that we are going to use?

I think Mac is quite decent for internet browsing. I haven't bought one yet actually, but my parents think that it is best for me to bring Mac and I had been laying my eyes on Mac ever since last year. But I really need to know if it fits the course I am taking.

Thanks ttoby for your help.

[coffeym]

You will not *need* a computer to do anything, with some exceptions:
- You'll need to use Matlab for at least one module (depending on your taste), so having a computer allows you to do this from home. Note that the software is not free (far from it), so it might be a financial necessity just to use the computers in the maths department which have it pre-installed.
- LaTeXing your essay/project. It doesn't matter what type of computer you have, you can easily set this up on any OS.

Most people will have a laptop, mostly for DVD playback and internet browsing. Very few people use their laptops in lectures, and I would say that taking handwritten notes is by far the most standard technique. It's also typically the best for taking maths notes, since not many people can type LaTeX (errorless) as fast as they can write.

So a Mac is not required, but of course it's a nice object.

[Narev]

I think there's a thread in the Year 1 (now Year 2) Maths forum on how to access Matlab on your own laptop without paying for it.

*There's this person in the Galois Theory lecture this year who was typing up notes in..Microsoft Word (or at least something that looked like it).

[TheTallOne]

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[DontBeJelBeReem]

Anyone here know how many Maths offers Warwick gives?

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by DontBeJelBeReem)
Anyone here know how many Maths offers Warwick gives?

For straight maths, I imagine it's about 300, with the hope that over 50 don't meet the offer.
That's just a guess though!