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Thanks, jujubea! Good luck to you too. TakeruK, your answer makes me feel a lot better about my SOP haha. Thanks so much.

Hi! I'm applying to graduate schools in Statistics (some PhD, some Master's). The thing is, my undergraduate degree is in Civil Engineering--not too unusual, most of the schools I'm applying to mention that their grad students often come from other fields, including schools that only have a PhD program. I actually have a decent amount of experience in research through undergraduate programs and I think my letters of recommendation and my resume/CV will show that I'm an independent worker and capable of going through a PhD program. But, I have next to no idea what, specifically, I'd want to study. Yes, I think Statistics is cool and yes, I'm totally ready to spend the next four or so years of my life studying it, but I simply don't know enough to say, for example, "I want to study network modeling as applied to healthcare systems." I also don't know enough to name-drop or talk about my research interests in detail. Is this ok? I think I can find a general direction that I'd be interested in--but I'd rather it happened naturally, i.e. after taking grad-level courses. Thanks in advance for any advice.