After undergoing a selection processs which involves meeting academic standards, demonstrating appropriate skills, and submitting a statement of merit to the Center and its program committee, qualified students are selected to attend the event. Helping to provide our students with this wealth of knowledge and insight are industry executives and other experts. Generally, as a direct or indirect result of the Schoo, approxmiately 60 percent of the students are awarded internship positions. The center services not only students who are here but also high school students. The CIE has pexperienced considerable success over the last decade in attracting high quality students to the business and mathematics curribculum through its Summer Actuarial Program.
Participants are, for the most part, entering their senior year in high schoo.
The program is designed to select monority students who have demonstrated a high level of potential in mathemetics and computer sciences. This is a utition-free program funded by the Society of Actuaries. CIE supporters, and other insurance industry sources. The careers in surance are varied, a circumstance which is not surprising, considering the fact that the industry employs over 2 million people. The industry is extremely complex, so complex that it takes a number of professionals working together to get the job done.