It's a remarkable turnabout for Dr. Marshall, who co-founded the leading professional society for practitioners of financial engineering, the International Association of Financial Engineering, the math-heavy discipline that revolutionized Wall Street in recent years.
The math- and science-heavy curriculum was enough to woo parents from other public charter and private schools, even from other states.
The entrance test for the 1,200 applicants was math-heavy and fashioned in part from the type of questions used at screenings for the Harvard Business School, Mr. Lozansky said.
Some said it was short on algebra, which is the primary focus of the Math A course, and heavy on difficult geometry questions.
Also in the top 10 are the math- and tech-heavy occupations of information technology (No. 4 with a $46,000 median starting annual salary), biotech and pharmaceuticals (No. 5 at $43,900), insurance (No. 7 at $40,800) and business and finance (No. 9 at $40,200).
Malik was on the math- and science-heavy pre-med track, and she flourished.
Besides, said Dr. Gates, female students earn half of the bachelor's degrees in another math-heavy discipline called — mathematics.
James first achieved notice, beginning in the nineteen-seventies, by self-publishing math-heavy tracts about baseball while working security at a pork-and-beans factory in Lawrence, Kansas.
And really in the end, engineering is design — it's just math-heavy.
We would create a math-heavy curriculum, hoping to produce the next great scientists to build new bombs, missiles, and space programs.
While all of the jobs we've measured for salary are bachelor's-level careers, it's interesting to note that the top 10 best-paying entry-level occupations are math-heavy.
