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Wait listed for Chicago also.

Does anyone have any comments on this program? It is in the Edinburgh Informatics department, it has a taught 1st year then 3 years research. My interests are in machine learning. I would like to know if people have heard of it in America? Will I be hurting my career choices if I were to accept them over say University of Michigan? One fun thing is that the teaching load will be more like 6 hours a week compared with 15 or more in the US. I was quite impressed when I interviewed, but they are the only place I've gotten to see in the flesh. Other offers: OSU, CMU, Alberta, Cornell, Wisconisn-Madison all for statistics but I will be doing machine learning more than stats.

I still haven't heard from them, there have been a lot of acceptances already so it doesn't look good. But I emailed them last week and they said they were still undecided. Probably undecided between rejected and waitlisted. Stranger things have happened though!

Thanks for the info, it's a bit of a minefield.

Awesome! Have to look into that.

In the UK PhD students are not taxed on their stipends, so it is a reasonable question for international students to have

If you want the F1 visa you should be fine, I wanted a J1 visa which would enable my future wife to seek employment.

I know! It was/is my dream school, but what can you do? University of Michigan have said that they will do the visa I want so that's my current likely destination. They are good at machine learning, but have no topological stats . Perhaps we will meet at a conference instead!

By the way if anyone is waitlisted for CMU, I will likely be declining my offer soon as they can't offer me the kind of visa I need. Sucks!

If you can get funding, the Computational Neuroscience program at Edinburgh looks good.

I can confirm that I as an international student, I had many sleepless nights wondering if I'd get in anywhere. So we're not all that arrogant! On another subject: what do people think of this Data Science PhD in Edinburgh? I had an interview there yesterday and their department was one of the more stunning buildings I've ever seen!

I agree, I emailed them asking to be put out of my misery, then I will have heard from all American schools.

I wonder if there any Chicago acceptances still to come, doesn't look promising!

I agree it would be very interesting to tie the different submissions to individuals, but it would be a PITA. I think that thegradcafe could implement a submission system more orientated around collecting data, by linking to a profile, and also by standardizing things like name of school. Then they could offer useful summary statistics themselves.

Investigating the difference between international and American (where I group 'U' together with 'I' for this purpose) I made the following plots: the first is broken down by year and the second looks at all applications together. Also here is a plot showing some of the difference between GPA reporters and non-reporters: