probstats

Perhaps some faculty or applicants other than Applied Math to Stat should weigh in on this. For one thing, I completely disagree with the statement "you would have a hard time getting into a statistics PhD program given your current status unless you take a real analysis class." While I took visits this year to several top 10 stats programs I found that SEVERAL accepted applicants who had not taken a real analysis course before. Incoming Ph.D. students come from many different backgrounds and programs will accommodate the students they admit, which includes enrolling the less prepared ones in the necessary prerequisites.

I was referring to the prior post. And the "I" stands for international.

This may hurt my reputation but after yet another self-entitled post by an international student (see Harvard rejection on results page. Off the top of my head I have also seen comments about one's international GPA being superior to U.S. undergrads because A- is an average grade in the U.S.--blanket statement and totally false!--and one not being excited about a Yale Ph.D. offer because they "expected" to get in.), I am just curious... do they/you (international students) really expect that they/you will just come in and steamroll the domestic applicants? I don't know if they/you think that we are just a bunch of obese idiots here in the states, but that kind of egotism is nauseating and ignorant.

phone call from chair

There is a bitter applicant who received a Minnesota rejection posting on the results page. He claims he was rejected because the program only accepts females. This is utterly false, and I really hope it doesn't deter future applications!

This will probably just be ignored again but yes, the UMich grad chair told me that they are done with acceptances.

I agree that UMich is under-ranked in us news. Some school rankings seem more accurate in NRC, but other schools seem better ranked by us news. For example, NRC would tell you that there is a huge disparity between the quality of Harvard and CMU. Not only is this gap overblown, but it could be the other way around from what the Harvard stats chair tells me. They lose quite a bit of their admits to CMU. In short, have salt aplenty when looking at rankings, and look at other factors when choosing your school.

I'm declining Minnesota. Hopefully soon enough that someone else can be accepted and attend the open house on the 7th.

I completely agree with you. I only commented because the grad chair at Berkeley told me that every year there are people who drag it out until mid-April despite the university repeatedly asking them to decide out of courtesy.

I've found these polls to be relatively close to the general consensus (however you interpret that) on the quality of stats programs. http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/statistics/rank/basic -more realistic in that it gives upper and lower bounds for each program's ranking http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/statistics-rankings -somewhat inconvenient since us news decided to combine stats and biostats in a single poll (note how programs appear twice) and arbitrary since a definite ranking realistically cannot be achieved.

I'm quite disappointed with the financial support of the Minnesota offer.. literally barely half (after bonus sums added) what CMU offered me. For those waiting on Minnesota, I will decline my offer soon.

Just like there is also a chance that every single admit will decline..

I don't know about Minnesota, but as I said before, I had a long phone conversation with a UMich faculty member over the weekend in which I was told that they are likely finished with acceptances.

I've heard UPenn has already made acceptances, so I guess if I get into Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Harvard, or UPenn, it will have to be off the wait list. Acceptances already from UMich, CMU, Cornell, and Minnesota.

For any one who is interested, the graduate chair of UMich told me that they likely will not be accepting any more applicants.