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Hi moving_up. I'm actually currently making the same choice but for their PhD programs in biostat. I've also seen Minnesota ranked higher, but on US News the difference is pretty minimal (i.e., for biostat departments they are 6th and 7th respectively, separated by 0.1 on the survey score). Based on that I don't think it would be "foolish" by any stretch to turn down Minnesota for Penn, but I'd be interested to hear if you've seen more significant rankings differences than the US News rank. I'm also not sure how much of a role this plays for the masters program, but Minnesota has some specific strengths over Penn (while Penn is arguably slightly more well-rounded). Specifically, from what I've heard Minnesota is very strong in clinical trials and bayesian methods (especially those used in clinical trials). There you would likely get a chance to take a course taught by Brad Carlin, who is very well-known in those fields. I'd love to hear more thoughts from you and other people though. I'm leaning slightly towards Penn at this point, but I still don't have as much information as I'd like.

Hi everybody, I'm currently deciding between Minnesota, U Penn, and UCLA for biostatistics PhD programs, and I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about those departments or advice for how to proceed. At this point I'm broadly interested in clinical trials, but I'm still fairly open to pursuing other areas of research so I don't want to make a decision entirely based on that, though it is definitely a factor. I also assume some of you have similar decisions, so feel free to use this post to ask about your situations too. Thanks!

I think all of the view decision links that originally led to errors were taken down. Mine disappeared on Sunday and hasn't come back up since, so that's probably not a good sign if acceptances are still visible

So I see a website acceptance on the results page, but when I go to the application website and click on the link for the decision status I get an error message. Is anyone else getting that error? I think maybe they didn't think the decisions would be visible to us and then took them down when they found out (and I guess that one person happened to check during the lucky window), but maybe it's just something about my account.

It's stats PhD acceptance emails. Biostat decisions come by mail, and probably won't arrive until either very late next week or early the week after

I have no idea, sorry! If I find anything out I'll let you know

Just got the call from Minnesota too, congrats CommonerCoffee! I got a rejection from Washington yesterday (sorry I can't help those of you on the waitlist!) but I did get the interview/open house email from Harvard last Friday. Like you guys suspected the open house is only domestic students, so international applicants don't need to worry about not getting that email.