[biostats Brown MS or Pittsburgh PhD??]

Can anyone give some suggestions on choosing the offer?

 

Brown gives 1/4 tuition deduction, it is more prestigious and I like the location. The program is thesis based and not terminal.

Pittsburgh has full financial aid and 2000 every month for student researcher working. The location is more Midwest.  

I am just wondering is it worthy to pay for the tuition of Brown? Or I should just save money and go for the PhD?

[Profile Evaluation for stats/biostats please]

Hi,

 

I am applying for 2015 fall.

I am an international student currently study in US. My undergraduate school is a small unfamous liberal arts college ranked around 70th on US news and world report.

 

major in applied math, minor in computer science

cumulative gpa: 3.64

math major gpa: 3.85

 

GRE: v-160, q-170, aw 3.5

 

some working experiences related to statistics at a clinical trial center and a medical company

just submitted a paper for publication, but not sure if it will be published. I did the statistical analysis part of the paper.

math tutor and teaching assistant for 3 years.

some coursework projects, probably cannot be count as research experience.

 

recommendations from 2 math professor and 1 stats professor. I think at least 2 of them know me very well.

 

my list of schools:

MS

- Univ of Chicago (stats MS)

- Duke (stats MS)

- NC chapel hill (stats MS)

- Rutgers (stats MS)

- Harvard (biostats, AM)

- Yale (biostats, MS)

- Johns Hopkins (biostats MS)

- Michigan Ann Arbor (stats MS)

- Brown (biostats MS)

- Minnesota Twin City (stats MS)

- UC Davis(stats MS)

 

PHD:

- Texas AM

- UCLA (biostats)

- UC Santa Barbara (stats)

- Northwestern

- Emory(biostats)

- University of Pittsburgh

 

Can you help me evaluate my profile? whats the chance I can get? Thank you for your time!!