Twenty years ago, you could ask a large group of actuaries, "How many of you first learned of the actuarial profession while in high school?" and only a small handful would raise their hands. 

Now, it's amazingly common — even the rule — for university actuarial science majors to enter college as incoming freshmen having firmly decided at the age of 16 or 17 that they want to pursue an actuarial career.

How has this change come about? 

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