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Re:Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions require... by AtlasBarfed on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:10PM (#21300148)
... what were your degrees? I'm assuming you're a programmer?

I only had a BA in comp sci, and almost every CS course I've taken has been useful to some degree. Operating Systems, Data Structures, Programming Languages, even Theory of Computation.

Sure most of the day-to-day is people skills and rote programming. Strategically Comp Sci has been very valuable in the long run.

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Re:Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions require... by xyzzyz on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:44PM (#21300339)
I have bachelors degrees in Computer Science and in Mathematics, and a Master degree in Mathematics (getting Masters is common and expected in the country I’m from).

My friends who only have mathematics degrees have jobs where their extensive training in abstract mathematics is mostly (eg insurance and finance jobs, which only use small fraction of what you learn in a math degree), or wholly (lots of them are software engineers) irrelevant.

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