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North Carolina State University Personal Statement Sample

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My parents have always emphasized the importance of collecting and analyzing data. They once brought me to a stock exchange to watch how all the values change in real-time, and they explained that stock traders need to collect, analyze, and interpret millions of data points in order to understand whether the stock prices will rise or fall. Since then, they have inspired me to see things through the lens of a data scientist. Whether I am reading news articles online, following the stock market, or doing any other activity, I try to examine the underlying data to grasp an even deeper understanding. At North Carolina State University, I applied my passions toward a double major in statistics and economics. Both of these fields share a common principle of data-driven research and analysis. My goal is to continue my studies through the Advanced Analytics program at North Carolina State University. Outside of the classroom, my work experience strengthened my ability to approach and solve challenges. In the banking industry and New Mind Education, I expanded my ability to work in teams and learned to apply principles from statistics to craft common, yet catered, solutions for the customers. By modeling customer requests into classes of problems, I generalized them into different groups and could solve them together …show more content…

At Aohey LLC, I learned to program in HTML and used SAS in a real world problem to migrate client production databases to online cloud-stores. Although I had previously used them in college, I realized that there was a huge difference in both breadth and depth of learning between using them in real world applications versus while working on a college project. My full-time data entry job after graduating from university further reinforced the idea that although I had built a strong foundation of skills, I am ready to continue to develop my expertise in the area of data

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