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  1. I'm also a student at one of the schools mentioned and there is at least one or two of my classmates whose math background, from what I understand, is not stronger than yours. I wouldn't rule out any of the ones you listed. That said, it is a good idea to apply widely. My impression after applying and getting results back is that you may get in somewhere you thought was a long shot and be denied from somewhere you thought you would almost certainly get in. That happened to me, at least.
  2. I think I had a 163 and I got into a top 10 stats department. I also got rejected from a few others. Obviously a higher score is better, but there's a lot that goes into the application.
  3. Columbia appears to have accepted people a couple months ago almost, told a few people that they were on the wait list, then rejected some people yesterday. Does anyone know about their process? What does it mean to not have heard anything back yet? I suppose I could email ...
  4. I think the best way to determine this will be to look at the industry placements for each school and see which look best to you. As an example, when I compared UNC and Duke's placements, it seemed to me like Duke's industry placements were in finance and tech while UNC tended to place people into pharmaceutical companies and SAS. There are some exceptions (a UNC alumni went to Goldman Sachs and some Duke alumni have gone into pharma), but maybe you can see trends. Another thing to ask about is where students tend to do internships over the summer.
  5. Budapest semesters is fun. If you want to, do it. Doing well in those courses will reaffirm your math preparation. Did you work with a stats professor at Duke? If so, get a recommendation from this person if possible. Duke has a lot of well-known faculty members in Bayesian statistics. If you like computational modeling and Bayesian statistics, then I would emphasize this in your applications. You might consider applying to schools with a focus in this area, e.g. Duke, Columbia, UCSC, UCI, UT Austin. The competition is pretty stiff, so definitely apply to a range of programs. But you have a lot of valuable experience (the REU in Bayesian statistics, the computational experience, the mathematics background), so I think you'll be all right. Definitely emphasize the strengths I mentioned in your SOP and mention any areas you think you're interested in so long as there's some intersection with work the faculty are doing at the school you're applying to. That'll play well at a lot of departments.
  6. I think 2013-2014 means those are the admissions numbers for applicants to the 2013-2014 academic year, i.e. last year's admissions cycle. I suspect it's gotten slightly more competitive since then. I wonder what this means for the academic job market for PhDs (and more general job market, for that matter). One one hand, more people pursuing stats means more competition. On the other hand, it means more demand for people to teach statistics. It seems like statistics programs aren't expanding as quickly as might be warranted.The expanding market for statisticians in industry might also mitigate competition in academia. Who knows.
  7. Just UNC so far. I haven't heard from Columbia, and I take that to be a bad sign. I expect to choose Duke over UNC because the focus on Bayesian statistics and computing is a better fit for me. Got rejected from too many places to list. I definitely think that different departments have different criteria when making decisions.
  8. Got into Duke, where I'm pretty sure I'll go.
  9. UT Austin also has an MS in stats, if you're interested in Austin. They have faculty working in stats and biostats, and their department is pretty applied.
  10. You've got an unconventional approach to taking averages, for sure. Wharton's average ends up being higher than the scores it received in either year. Same for some of the other schools ...
  11. Sorry to hear that they aren't able to accommodate that.
  12. They're both really good schools. I'd just choose based on whether you want to live in Zurich or Seattle, whether you'd math or stats, and which would be better financially.
  13. Somebody put a Duke acceptance in the results section ... the stats suggest that it's a joke, though.
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