Youngest Actuary

[yanz]

Originally Posted by qqpp

Just curious, what's the youngest FSA/ASA recently? Let's say, within the last 10 years? or 5 years?

Seph and I are both recent (within the last yr). I don't think the youngest age has really changed over the years, but the number of candidates at that age has probably increased. Is that what you're trying to say?

[wat?]

Originally Posted by qqpp

Just curious, what's the youngest FSA/ASA recently? Let's say, within the last 10 years? or 5 years?

I know at least 3 people that had obtained their ASA at the age of 22 - none of which were in an actuarial science program.

[BuckyBadger]

I have a friend who will be receiving her FSA in March. She will be 23 years, 1 month.

[bdschobel]

Yes, I know about her. That's quite an accomplishment.

Bruce

[bdschobel]

Originally Posted by qqpp

because I would imagine the edu redesign has reduced the travel time to ASA/FSA?

That was an explicit goal.

Bruce

[GosuJohn]

Originally Posted by bdschobel

Yes, I know about her. That's quite an accomplishment.

Bruce

Yea especially since you do not see many 23 year old Brain Surgeons.

[wat?]

Originally Posted by wat?

I know at least 3 people that had obtained their ASA at the age of 22 - none of which were in an actuarial science program.

Actually, now that I think about it, all 3 of these individuals that I know took and passed 2 exams in a sitting at one point.

[bdschobel]

On February 22, I gave an FSA certificate to a young guy from Waterloo, Ontario, who on that day was 22 years, 5 months and some days old. (I'm not being exact to protect his privacy.) He was the youngest FSA since 1978 and the third-youngest of all time to go through the SOA system start to finish. (We had a partially mutual-recognition FSA finish earlier, but I don't recognize that as a record because of the mixed educational systems.)

We had three 24-year-olds on February 29.

Bruce

[PanicMotion]

On February 22, I gave an FSA certificate to a young guy from Waterloo, Ontario, who on that day was 22 years...

Why is it that Canadian actuaries seem so much more obsessed with getting exams done early than Americans? Not that there's anything wrong with that; I highly recommend getting exams done early.

I love the situation I'm in now with increased responsibilities at work that require I stay later and later and on weekends while still needing time to study for exams. If I could do it all over again, I'd try to sprint through the exams like my life depended on it while in college and early in my career instead of taking a 5 year break.

[JohnLocke]

Originally Posted by PanicMotion

Why is it that Canadian actuaries seem so much more obsessed with getting exams done early than Americans? .

Job market.

Prolly why US ActSci students are kinda lazy in that respect

I hear it all the time 'meh...I can get a job with two exams'