stats applicant

I'm on the same boat. I am going to focus ML during my Phd, but I wasn't accepted to CMU joint program. Now I'm trying to choose between the two. The faculty at my university all recommend CMU, and I was under the impression that they are extremely good in ML, but looking at those job placement it indeed doesn't look that impressive. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. If anyone can also share some inside information about Pittsburgh/Ann Arbor, or the departments atmosphere that would also be great.

Can you elaborate? I am seriously thinking about going there. Didn't know about any visa issues.

Just got a CMU admit. general letter in the email, international student. Was a bit worried after Harvard and Washington came out, and I was also accepted to Michigan, but now finally I can sleep well. This is just the statistics, I also applied to the machine learning track, but they said an answer about that would come in the future.

CMU is one of the top places in the world to study machine learning so my guess is that just.

If i have something VALID to write, I use it. In some of the schools I've actually read some of the professors papers and used them in my own research and I honestly find the ideas interesting. If i don't have something valid to write, I send out some polite cliches ("best professors" "known worldwide") or something like that and leave it like this. Anyway, everything is better then trying to write about something you have no idea about and sounding like a fool, so don't do that!

This is really the last few days of this being relevant. If anyone thinks it's better to send a 730 (68%) rather then not to send I will be really REALLY happy to hear.

Give Wassermann "all of statistics" a shot. Really nice book as a refresher. http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/all-of-statistics/

No, actually I've done both in a good (not amazing) university outside of the states.

I have undergrad in math with good grades, and masters in statistics with graduate probability and measure theory. So they will see I have the math background. So far I have only sent it to Stanford and Chicago, where it seems mandatory/STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. Still wondering about what to do with Wharton and Washington, which seems to highly recommend it, but it doesn't seem to be a necessary condition. I will probably won't send the score to the rest of the programs I'm applying, where it doesn't seem to be too much of an issue. For others who have the same problem, this are the relevant threads I found in the forum:

mGRE is only recommended when applying for a Ph.D in statistics. But obviously sometimes it's better not to send a score than to report a bad score. Stanford, which is the only place that actually requires mGRE, post that their average is the 82% quantile. But this also includes graduate students in probability, with higher level in mathematics. How would you cut the threshold between send/not send/indifferent? I'm asking because I'm at the 68% (730), and I wonder whether to send it or not.