Lelouch Lamperouge

Hi, levy, your suggestion is very helpful. I'll treat it seriously. Thank you so much!

Hi levy, how do you think my profile? Since you are a PhD stats student in Yale, I wish you could give me some advice like what I could do to improve my competitiveness if I stay one more year in undergraduate. Honestly speaking, there may not be many suitable undergraduate stats courses available for me, so I want to take a challenge to take the 1st year PhD course like Linear Models. For research, from my experience and some professors' feedback, it is difficult for undergraduate students to work out some very significant research results. Even PhD students usually start their rigorous research at the beginning of the 3rd year. Is that correct? Thanks!

sisyphus1, I've noticed what you say. I agree that it is not a good sign, hearing nothing by so far. Yes, let's just keep positive.

cyberwulf, thank you very much! I wish I could finally get offer from at least one of them.

Congrats!

Hi, guys, I am an international student in U.S. college. I am now at senior standing but actually it is my 3rd year in college (because I have transferred a lot credits from advanced placement). I have applied for several Statistics PhD programs this time, without safe schools. This is because I may apply again next year if I do not get any offers this time. Honestly speaking, I am a bit nervous these day because I am still expecting to get some offers. But so far I have not heard any good or bad news for my application. I just want some people here to give me some evaluation, or to provide me with some advice if I need to apply again next year. My School: Top 5 Public Unviersity with high ranking in Stats Major and GPA: Honors Statistics (3.95) , Financial Mathematics (3.95) Cumulative GPA: 3.92 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 (taking), Numerical Analysis (taking). 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. 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. Programs Applied (All PhD) : Stanford, UCB, Harvard, U of Washington, U of Chicago, CMU, Duke, U of Michigan, U of Penn Wharton, Cornell, Columbia, Yale. I know without GRE Sub Math Stanford may even not evaluate my application, but just for a try. I have not heard any good or bad news from any of the programs so far. I know there are several people already got offers from UW, CMu and Cornell. Especially UW, it has sent more than 10 offers, so I guess I should not be optimistic about my application for this school. There are many many talent people over the world, so I do not know my competitiveness at this stage. How do you think my chance of being admitted by any one of the programs applied? If I stay one more year in undergraduate study, I plan to take a PhD course Linear Models in Statistics and a more advanced programming course. Since I may prefer statistical computing part to very theoretical statistics, I guess I should be equipped with more programming skills. I will also take GRE sub Math and may re-take GRE general test again to improve the Verbal and Writing parts. Do you have any good suggestions for me? Thank you in advance!