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  1. I had a undergraduate degree in pharmacy in an university in Mainland China (GPA is just fair), and an MPH in the University of Hong Kong. And 2 year research experience in health policy, and then 1 year in epidemiology. 1 paper under review, not published yet. And which GRE score should I submit, since I have taken twice, results as below: V152, Q170, AW4.0 V158, Q164, AW4.5 Is it a bad idea to submit both? Thank you!
  2. I notice there are Doctor of Science (SD) and PhD in some of the Epidemiology programme, such as Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health ONLY provide SD Epi programme, as could be found in the below website. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/admissions/eligibility-requirements/#degrees I just wonder if there is any substantial difference between SD and PhD. Thank you.
  3. Thank you all for the suggestions. I will have to think more carefully about this.
  4. Thank you for your suggestions. It is even more difficult to get funding for the Master programme, am I right? I won't be able to do it without funding. And if I get the Master of Biostats before I apply for a PhD, I still have to do the two-year coursework of the PhD programme, which means it would take me 6+ years (2-year Master + 4-year PhD). This is a difficult decision. But I think I should probably apply for both MS and PhD.
  5. I am Chinese and I did my undergrad in Mainland China. My undergraduate GPA is just mediocre. The advanced mathematics is different from those stand-alone mathematics course, e.g. calculus and linear algebra. I understand this will be a disadvantage. And I got a Master of Public Health in the University of Hong Kong (HKU). I did my research in HKU as well.
  6. You are right that I have already considered Epi PhD, but I want to do biostatistics more than Epi. Thank you for your suggestions on online courses. I have done a few statistics courses on coursera. I will consider take a few on mathematics.
  7. I am doing epidemiology. it is applying statistics, but not so theoretical. I did learn about calculus, linear algebra and probability, but not separated courses. On my transcript, there is only one course named "advance mathematics".
  8. I am planning to apply for a PhD in Biostatistics (2016 Fall), here I got several questions for my application. I want to apply for the top 10 programme in biostatistics, but I really do not have an idea of the application. 1. I am not from mathematics nor statistics, but I have 1-2 mathematics course in college, and got 3-year research experience in public health, currently preparing for a paper submission. I wonder whether the lack of mathematics background would be an obstacle for my application? or does the research experience help a bit? 2. How important is the GRE score? Currently I got Verbal152, Quantitative170, AW4.0. I think my Quantitative and AW is fine for biostatistics. But it seems that the Verbal is not good enough. Can anyone give me some suggestions? Thank you.
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