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  1. Sorry to hijack the thread but CyberWulf, I have a question on how adcoms determine academic levels of unknown overseas institutions. My school is in country J (heavily populated, one of the major economies in asia), and is ranked roughly #5 ~ #7 nationwide. The school is highly regarded domestically, but I think it has almost zero international recognition. I understand that if this were China, South Korea, or India, adcoms have ways to figure out how good a school is, i.e. through past experience or asking their own grad students/faculty. However, students/faculty from country J are severely underrepresented in U.S. stat programs, and I strongly doubt adcoms have much experience handling applications from there. For complicated reasons I qualify as a domestic applicant so I figure I'll be compared to applicants from U.S. schools. My question is: since my school is unknown, is it likely that it would be treated similarly to an unknown state school in the U.S. (or worse)? Honestly, I think the academic level (at least in quantitative disciplines ) at my school shouldn't be that much different from a top 25 U.S. school, but there really isn't any way to prove that. FWIW, my gre general is Q170(99th) V160(83rd). Could you give me some insight? (currently debating whether I should make my school list more conservative or not; I have a limited budget)
  2. Hello, and thank you for reading. I'm a foreign student applying to U.S. stat Phd programs this fall, and currently in the process of requesting LORs. So far I've secured two, one from my thesis advisor (time series econometrics) and another from a math professor. For my third letter, I'm trying to decide from the following two: 1. Probability professor (discrete/continuous r.v's, pdf's , mgf's ... that stuff) which I took during my sophmore year (one class). - I got an A, but hardly ever spoke with him. - However, he might remember me because I was always the first to finish quizzes/exams and leave class. My scores were always near, if not, perfect. - Not a native English speaker, got his Phd in Math at an asian institution 2. Environmental Development professor from two classes I took during my freshman and sophmore years. - He knows me very well, and gave me an A for both classes. - Both of his classes were graded based on a 20-page essay, written in English. Required extensive research, but did not involve any statistical analysis and has nothing to do with my research interest. - Native English speaker, got his Phd in History/Literature from top UK institution Given that I have plenty of Math courses with good grades and great TOEFL score, but poor GRE writing score (3.0, will retake), which do you think would be a better choice? (Assume neither has any international recoginition) It seems the standard choice would be the Probability prof., but I think all he could talk about is my academic performance, which is pretty much apparent from my transcripts. On the other hand, I believe the latter one could say interesting things about me but he's from a totally unrelated field. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
  3. Hi, I just took the gre and got 164 quant (90th percentile), which is a relativey low score compared to most stat phd applicants. Do you think this will affect my chances of getting into a top stat phd program? Or whether any place wil automatically cut me off for this? My math/stat background easily meets the requirements for any program, and my gpa for math/stat courses are above 3.9. Thanks!
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