Lelouch Lamperouge

Hi Wine, are you sure these 45 people are all admitted to the PhD program but not PhD&MS combined?

Hi, I asked a similar question several months ago and here is the list suggested by a biostatistics faculty in the forum.

I'll do the first... Institution: University of Washington Seattle Program: Biostatistics PhD Decision: Admitted Funding: ~2100/month for RA or TA position Notification date: Jan.10th Notified through: Email

Hey everyone, If you are applying to Biostatistics PhD programs for Fall 2014, post results here if you'd like to share! I guess it may be useful for the future applicants and it is possible to find out someone here who may attend the same program with you. Please ask no question here and just post results. Thank you! We could discuss details in another thread "Admissions Results" or you can just PM the guy whom you are interested in. Here is The Format for Posts: Institution: Program: Decision: Funding: Notification date: Notified through: Comments (if any):

I guess it's just because the results of stats programs will come later.

Haha, hope to see you! Do you mind I PM you if I decide to go there?

I plan to if they cover the cost of flight ticket

Just got invitation to Brown University Biostatistics PhD program's recruitment day.

I have got Johns Hopkins and UPenn's invitations to their visit days. JHU: the end of January Penn: Feb.7th. Both are Biostatistics PhD programs.

The acceptance email was personalized too in my case.

Hi, I applied to UW's Statistics PhD program last year and got rejected. I did not apply for their Biostatistics PhD program last year. I know nobody in neither their Stats program nor Biostats program, so I didn't write emails to any professors. This is just my case.

Sorry that I have no idea about this. My guess is: they haven't sent out all the admission offers at this early stage. You can see several peoples have already posted their rejections. At least it is not bad to know that you are not rejected now.

I got the email on Friday afternoon. I guess the application status online has not been updated by so far. Wish you good luck!

Hi cyprusprior, I have also been admitted by UW's Biostatistics PhD program. I am waiting for results from other programs now.

Hi Cyberwulf, what do you think about the biostats program in USC? I am considering to apply for the biostatistics PhD program there. Since you are a biostats prof, i'd like to see your comment for this program. Thank you!

Hi, Cyber and Shostakovich, about the master program, how about the Michigan Master Program? Their master program seems to have a length of 1.5 to 2 years. Is the job opportunity good for UMich's master program after graduation? (I ask this questions for one of my friends who is considering to do a master program more geared towards industry.)

Hi cyberwulf, Thank you! I think I will also apply to the Master programs in Stanford and Chicago. I am also considering to apply to the master program in Harvard, but I have heard that the master program at Harvard is much more job-oriented. Because you are a Biostats faculty, could you give me a list of names for the top 10 biostats program in your personal mind?

Thank you qqyyzz! What if I do not have a good score in Sub Math? Is my chance to be admitted to Top 25 STATS program still good? How about the Biostats programs? Do they pay much attention to the GRE sub math?

Thank you for your suggestions! I will polish my essay this time by asking some native speakers to help me! I also feel pity for my A- in Advanced Calculus, since I got full marks for the first midterm and the final but screwed up the second midterm. And it was in my third semester in college. The lack of more advanced math is my weak point so I will try my best in the GRE sub Math test, though I know I should not expect too much on that.

Thank you so much! For the Real Analysis part, the Advanced Calculus in my school seems to be the Real Analysis in other universities (different names). But I am aware that the lack of Measure Theory is my weak point for application to the Top STATS programs. Thank you anyway!

Hi, I applied to virtually all the top 10 programs and some of my love places: Stanford, UCB, Harvard, UChicago, UWashington, UMich, Duke, CMU, Columbia, Cornell, Yale and Upenn. Since these programs are all with high reputation and very popular, I know the competition is quite high every year. This time I will apply to more programs and also include BioStats; hope I can get some offers. Actually my professors were also surprised to my result last year but that was truth at least for the last time; wish not happen again this time .

Hi, guys, I applied to some top Statistics PhD programs last year but got no offers. I decide to re-apply to some PhD programs again this year. I know that some people here are actually faculty members of some programs. I wish some of you could give me some evaluations. I am an international student in U.S. college. I graduated from my university with High Distinction. I completed my undergraduate study in 3 years because I have transferred a lot credits from advanced placement. My School: Top 5 Public Unviersity with high ranking in Stats Major and GPA: Graduated with Highest Honors in Statistics (4.00/4.00) , Financial Mathematics (3.96/4.00) Cumulative GPA: 3.93/4.00 Courses taken and taking: CAL III (A+), Diff. Equations(A+), Linear Algebra (A), Advanced Calculus (A-),Math of Finance (A-), Elementary Programming Course for C++ (A+), Intro to Theo. Stats (A+), Data Mining (A), Applied Stats [graduate] (A), Statistical Computing (A+), Intro to Econometrics [under Econ department] (A+), Probability [graduate] (A), Independent Research in Stats (A), Honors Thesis (A), Discrete Stochastic process [graduate] (A+), Numerical Analysis (A). GRE: 160(V) + 169(Q) +3.5(W) [ my writing is not good ] I have not taken GRE subject Math; I think it is a weak point. I am going to take it in the end of Sept, but honestly speaking, my lack of learning some pure math courses makes me difficult to get high score from GRE subject Math. And I do not have much time to prepare for it. Recommendation Letters: Three all from Stats Professors (1 from full professor, 1 from an associate prof, 1 from an excellent assistant prof). I was told by one of the professors (the full professor) that he wrote me a very strong letter. I guess other two are also good. Research: have been doing a research work for my Honors Thesis, under a full professor's supervision, but with no significant result. Good at using R, Matlab. Programs that I will apply to: This year I will not apply to only the top 10 or top 15 Statistics PhD programs. I have not yet decided the list of the programs. I will still try most top 15 programs but the programs around top 25 are all acceptable. I will also apply to some Biostatistics PhD programs this year. Currently my goals are: Harvard, UMich, Johns Hopkins, UWashington. Are there any other very good Biostatistics programs that I could have a shot? Compared to the Statistics PhD programs, I am less familiar with the Biostatistics programs, so your recommendations would be very useful! How do you think my chance of getting any PhD offers (for Statistics or BioStatistics)? Thank you in advance!

I'll say there are many TA positions available at Michigan for Applied Stats Masters based on what I know. Because the number of undergraduates there is huge and there is a course called STATS 250 which is the required course for many undergraduate majors; lots people take that course every term and there are many sections for that course. The PhD students there are not enough to take all the TA positions in STATS. Of course, you need to have a good academic record (like high undergraduate gpa, I guess) to get a TA position. I have a good friend there in the Applied Stats Master program. She has been a TA for the past year and She tells me that if you get the TA position at Michigan, it is enough for you to cover the living cost there. Also, the tuition is waived for TA. I am not familiar with the policy in Duke. Wish this is helpful for you. Good luck!

I most agree with this ranking. It is consistent with what I have heard from my Stats professors. It seems that I have applied to most of these programs but I haven't got any good news by so far. Wish I could get an offer from one of them.

From my opinion, I would move UM-Ann Arbor to the Tier II. But I agree that it is increasingly harder to say which is better than another. Actually they are all very good schools and your performance in PhD study may be related to which topic you are gonna work and which professor you choose to follow.