ParanoidAndroid

University Of Minnesota Electrical Engineering, PhD (F14) Accepted via Website on 14 Mar 2014 I 15 Mar 2014 Admission without funding. Well, the average selling price in my country for the kidneys is not enough to cover half the cost of attendance. Darn it, they did not even offer a tuition reduction. Funny and depressing at the same time.

If your goal is industry/work force after graduation, then I can imagine Duke and UNC being more attractive to potential employers. Especially being part of the Research Triangle.

Looks like UNC is doing more PhD admits for the STOR program. Best of luck to those that applied!

UCSB Physics getting some love: I didn't even cared.. I'm going to a better university hep-th. They should specify that they will not admit any international student beforehand, so that I do not need to waste my ****ing application fee. Accepted to Harvard, Pton, Caltech, Uchicago, Cornell. UC suck balls Don't apply to this place if you are an international student. Lol ok UCSB, I'll be going to Harvard instead. Grand Theft Application - Santa Barbara UCSB, from all the internation applicants: Go **** yourself!! UC grad schools are well known for not really admitting international students, especially USCB. UCSB is such a theft that they charge $105 fee and just dump internationals' applications without even reviewing. UCSB, please suck your balls t(^-^ t)

Getting rejected by your bottom choice program.

What kind of research are you interested in? You might want to ask this in the Mathematics and Statistics forum.

It's strange considering BU Stats was a top 25 program in the previous rankings.

The rankings I listed in the OP are the 2010 rankings. Thought I would post them to compare. Seems like there isn't much of a difference in the Stats' programs. But there have been several new Biostat programs added in the 2014 edition.

Glancing at the new rankings, looks like the only new addition in the top 40 is NYU Sterns program (for statistics only).

Thanks Applied Math to Stat! They don't separate the biostats and stats rankings.

Wow, that must have been minutes after I posted this thread.

Let me know if I made a mistake there.

With the updated rankings slated to be published tomorrow, I thought this would be a good topic to discuss them. Here is the article regarding upcoming new rankings: EDIT: New rankings posted! http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/statistics-rankings Here are the old rankings: 2010 Statistics rankings (Top 40): 1) Stanford 2) UC Berkeley 3) Harvard 4) Chicago 5) Washington 6) Carnegie Mellon 7) Duke 8) North Carolina State University 9) Texas A&M 10) Pennsylvania 11) Wisconsin-Madison 12) Michigan-Ann Arbor 13) Minnesota 14) Iowa State 15) Penn State 16) Coumbia 17) Cornell 18) Purdue 19) UNC-Chapel Hill 20) Ohio State 21) UCLA 22) Florida 23) UC-Davis 24) Illinois-Urbana Champaign 25) Iowa 26) Yale 27) Rutgers 28) Rice 29) Colorado State 30) Florida State 31) Connecticut 32) Michigan State 33) Boston U 34) Pittsburgh 35) George Washington 36) Northwestern 37) Georgia 38) Missouri-Columbia 39) Virginia Tech 40) Southern Methodist NOTE: I realized that some of these programs were equal in rating, so some of these schools are in fact tied. 2010 Biostatistics Rankings (Top 20) 1) Harvard 1) Washington 3) Johns Hopkins 4) UNC-Chapel Hill 5) Michigan-Ann Arbor 6) UC Berkeley 7) Minnesota 8) Wisconsin-Madison 9) UCLA 10) Columbia 11) Emory 12) Iowa 13) Boston U 13) Pittsburgh 15) U Texas Health Sciences Center 16) Medical College of Wisconsin 17) Medical U of South Carolina 18) Buffalo-SUNY 19) Virginia Commonwealth

The MSP is a professional masters degree. CMU offers a M.S. Statistics degree on route to the PhD. Candidates have to complete a certain number of courses and pass a data analysis exam. http://www.stat.cmu.edu/academics/graduate/the-phd-program-in-statistics

Doesn't hurt to try. The website clearly states April 8th as the final deadline. For what it's worth, they received 511 applications to the MS and PhD programs in 2010. I can imagine that number has increased since. Btw, congratulations on the acceptances, especially to NCSU!

No point in speculating now. Best to just wait and see what happens. Why is your first choice by far McGill?

280 students?! Insane. Isn't the tuition there $52,000 per year?

Maybe you should apply to a program outside the top 50 just to be safe, but I don't think it'll be necessary.

Some schools ranked outside the top 10 in USNWR: Boston U University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Iowa University of Pittsburgh Virginia Commonwealth U The survey based NRC rankings: Michigan Washington Harvard Johns Hopkins UCLA Case Western Reserve Minnesota-Twin Cities Pittsburgh UNC-Chapel Hill Alabama at Birmingham Iowa Columbia Brown UC-Berkeley Virginia Commonwealth Emory SUNY-Albany Regression-based NRC rankings: Michigan Harvard Washington UCLA Johns Hopkins Minnesota-Twin Cities Iowa UNC-Chapel Hill Pittsburgh Brown Case Western Reserve Columbia Virginia Commonwealth Alabama at Birmingham UC-Berkeley Emory SUNY-Albany

Undergraduate Level Mathematical Statistics with Applications by Wackerly et. al Introduction to Mathematical Statistics by Hogg et. al Probability and Statistics by Degroot and Schervish Graduate Level Statistical Inference by Casella and Berger Theory of Statistics by Schervish Mathematical Statistics by Shao Wasserman's book is also great.

Can someone who is currently enrolled in or graduated from the MA Statistics degree at Columbia give a short review of the program? I'm thinking of applying to it, but I've read some conflicting stuff about the program. Is it true that there is no thesis/research paper required? Are the professors generally ambivalent towards MA students? How is the student atmosphere? How were admissions? I've read that they're pretty much willing to admit anyone (with the minimum requirements) who has the $$. Would you recommend this program to someone who plans on pursuing a PhD in the future? Thanks in advance.

I'm sorry for another "What are my chances?" topic, but I'm currently in the process of applying to masters programs in statistics and I was wondering if I could get some input on my chances. My profile: Undergraduate Institution: Top 30 International (according to QS and THE) Major: Physics Relevant Course Work: Equivalent of math major (probability, statistics, linear algebra, real analysis, complex analysis, advanced calculus, ODE's, etc.) GPA: 3.50/4.00 (Cumulative), 3.75/4.00 (Major), 3.66/4.00 (Math) GRE: 165 Quant, 154 Verbal, 3.5 AW Research: Nothing major. Honors degree students in Physics are required to do a year long research project for credit. I also did a term project in my regression and analysis of variance course. Letters: I'm sure I'll be able to get a couple of good ones, however, they are from the Physics department. One of them will be from a math professor I got along very well with and received two A's in his courses. Schools I'm applying to: Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin-Madison, McGill, Illinois-Urbana Campaign, Chicago, BU I know I'm aiming high, but do I have a decent shot at any of these schools? Are there other realistic schools that you could recommend I take a look at?