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There is Peter Craigmile at OSU and Dan Cooley at Colorado State. They are quite famous in Spatial Statistics.

I wrote to the Vice Chair at UCLA and he said that I am waitlisted and that it will take 1-2 months for a "favourable" decision. I don't think I would want to wait that long. In case any of you are still waiting to hear from UCLA, it might help to ask them about your status.

Thanks footballman2399! I will probably write to the chair this time because it doesn't seem to go anywhere when I write to the office assistant.

I was just wondering for any particular program - is it alright to send an email to the Vice Chair for graduate affairs asking about my application status ( and explaining him my position) or is it advisable to always reach out to the staff responsible for Student Affairs first?

Thanks ar_rf and Portmanteaujam. Yes, it certainly looks like I am on some sort of a wait list. But I saw just 4-5 acceptances on results search for UCLA. Even accounting for under reporting, isnt that a small number for UCLA? Oh well, we can only wait.

Will UCLA ever make a decision on my application? This is the only school I am waiting for that could potentially change my decision. I have called them multiple times and they just say "we are still reviewing". Frustrating!

I didn't ask that question particularly but I think we can guesstimate. They have about ~54 PhD student across the 5 years now and there were about 20 odd students at the information day. So, the cohort size should be somewhere around 10-12 if I am not wrong.

All the best Karoku_valentine!!

Here are my thoughts on the OSU Statistics department after attending their GID on Feb 20. 1. Lot of focus on Spatial Statistics and Statistical Learning 2. I quite liked the mix of domestic and international students in the department 3. I spoke to a couple of faculty members and they were really friendly and interested 4. They appear to have a good BioStat program and students have written thesis on many interdisciplinary topics like criminology etc. 5. The money is pretty good ~$2,100 to start with and it increases as you progress through the degree. I quite liked the department and their focus on both classical and Bayesian statistics. The bad thing is the weather but I dont know if it is going to be a deal breaker for me.

@Karoku_valentine, are you planning to go to the UGA Information day?

Hmmm..neither did I mention anything about Bayesian. Hopefully its not going to hurt me bad.

I will be attending. I will probably be there on 19th evening. Will post under this topic on what I thought about the department.

Thanks qub! I know that Dr. Ombao is one of their star professors and so is Dr. Smith. Do they have a Graduate Information Day? I haven't received anything yet from them but that could be because I am an international.

Hi, I have recently applied to UC Irvine Stats PhD program and although these are still early days, it would be great to have some opinion/advice/feedback on this program. In particular, things like placement records, funding situation etc. I know that they have a decent Machine Learning subprogram in collaboration with the CS department. Any feedback from the current/ex students would be very helpful. Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know. I had an interview a couple of days back. I wouldnt say it was a great interview. Fingers crossed.