I'm a senior in high school thinking about becoming an accountant, actuary, or pharmacist. For the past year I've been most seriously considering the accounting route because it's the easiest out of those 3 and I'm 90% sure I'm smart enough to achieve it. I need to know how naturally smart you have to be to become a successful pharmacist or actuary though. I heard horror stories about actuarial exams and I'm okay at math but I'm not delusional, being an actuary is hard. I'm willing to work hard but roughly how naturally smart do you have to be to become an actuary or pharmacist in terms of IQ or ACT (anything relatively objective) percentiles and which is harder? Please don't say any cliches about hard work > smarts or following your dreams, my future is more important than my self esteem and you could save me thousands in student loans by being honest. I would rather be an accountant with a job than an unemployed student with a math degree. My ACT was in the 91st percentile and I took a free Mensa IQ test on their site a few years ago and got around the same percentile.
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I'm a senior in high school and I need to know what natural smarts and ACT
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I'm a senior in high school thinking about becoming an accountant, actuary, or pharmacist. For the past year I've been most seriously considering the accounting route because it's the easiest out of those 3 and I'm 90% sure I'm smart enough to achieve it. I need to know how naturally smart you have to be to become a successful pharmacist or actuary though. I heard horror stories about actuarial exams and I'm okay at math but I'm not delusional, being an actuary is hard. I'm willing to work hard but roughly how naturally smart do you have to be to become an actuary or pharmacist in terms of IQ or ACT (anything relatively objective) percentiles and which is harder? Please don't say any cliches about hard work > smarts or following your dreams, my future is more important than my self esteem and you could save me thousands in student loans by being honest. I would rather be an accountant with a job than an unemployed student with a math degree. My ACT was in the 91st percentile and I took a free Mensa IQ test on their site a few years ago and got around the same percentile.
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Estimate the IQ/ACT scores of a pharmacist and an actuary, or explain which is harder
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