Math placement for a computer science personal statement?

Do you know if it worth doing work experience/placement that is about maths? The degree I want to do is CS related however that placement is math useful to do for my ps. Yes Or no?

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McGinger

Unis are not actually that interested in work experience for academic degrees (ie. not something vocational like Nursing or Dentistry) - but if you want to do it for general interest go for it.

They are far more interested in 'why I want to do this subject and only this subject at degree level for the next 3/4 years' - with examples of how you are starting to develop more specialised interests and are moving away from just the A level syllabus.

Look at the extra reading etc on this list from Cambridge - good for all Unis - https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/publications/super-curricular_suggestions.pdf

And do some of these Moocs (free short online courses) over the summer holidays
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/introduction-to-quantum-computing:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/intelligent-systems
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/programming-essentials-with-python-matplotlib-and-seaborn-sc
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/cyber-security-landscape
https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1
https://www.coursera.org/learn/interactive-computer-graphics
etc etc

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