RandomWalk

Thanks for the heads up! Did you ever consider BioStat?

This was what I was getting at. I will probably run by his office hours soon. Thank you for your input!

Yea I may need to look into it again. I have taken 11 psych courses (including all quant psych related courses offered at my uni). Do you know if Quant Psych is compairable to Biostats? Specifically, that it is a more specific feild of analysis focused on Psych studies or Bio studies.

My Psych professor suggested this originally. Between my 2nd and 3rd year I switched from Psychology to Statistics. From the reading I did before, it seemed like quant psych closed quite a bit of doors outside of academia when compaired to statistics(But from what I understand, offers a decent number of professor positions).

Hi everyone, thanks for taking a look! I am graduating this spring with the intentions of applying to Stats grad school next fall. I am trying to figure out where I would be a competative applicant, and what I can do in the next year to increase the merits of my application. Undergrad: UCLA Degree: Major - Statistics GPA: 3.65/4.00, Stat GPA : 3.91/4.00 GRE: 170Q, 159V Research: I worked in a psychology research lab for two years. In the beginning I did normal psychology student activities, but eventually I did data analysis, programmed experimental conditions, and became lead research assitant in a lab of 25 students. I currently work under a stats professor doing data collection, manipulation, and basic neural network analysis. I have extensive knowledge in multiple data handling languages ( R, Stata, SAS, Spss), and recently won a data competition (not sure this matters). LOR: I have two strong letters (One Stats professor and One very well known Psych professor) , and one decent letter. My biggest fear is that my grades in the intro math classes may hurt me. I flopped around majors as a freshman and ended up with a B+ in multivariable 1 and a C in multivariable 2. Would getting a masters first help prove that I can handle the math load? I have since done very well in other courses with more demanding math, but I think this could be considered a red flag. I would not mind staying at UCLA, but I'm having a tough time figuring out a list of schools to apply to(Penn state, NCSU, UCDavis ?). I know that places like Berkley and Stanford would be quite a strech, so a list of a decent schools would be helpful. Also is there anything that would really help my application that I could do over the next year? Thanks for taking the time to read this and any advice you can offer!