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Thank you for your advice, sir. In fact, just studying in the US is my dream. Even if I wrote three schools I mentioned above as a goal, I was very happy to hear that I could even be a "consideration" for the schools like Texas A&M, Iowa, etc, even if there is low possibility to get admission from those good schools. ^^ And I am not that care about the highly ranked or lowly ranked graduate schools in the US since studying there is just a happiness. ^^ I am studying while only looking forward to achieve American Dream and happiness while studying what I love to do ^^ And I have just took one time test of TOEFL in my life, therefore I hope to have more higher point next time when I take again. May I ask your opinion, sir ? As a professor, how do you think about my mathematical background? I tremendously put all of my effort into mathematics studying since I wanted to acquire the rooted background in mathematics so that I can apply this background to the statistics, which is my dream I want to achieve in the US. I know that my English is not a level that I can proud of, but would you think that my mathematical background would make a pay off or compensation to the lacking of the English proficiency? I would like to know the other weakness or strength which would make your eyes glance one more time. I will make my weakness be stronger and my strength be more emphasized in the given 3 months before applying, which is the fist and the last opportunity in my life to achieve my dream and contribution. And one more question. May I ask which schools are belongs to the "etc" in the words in your sentence " the Iowa State, Texas A&M, etc.". Since I have no background in US university culture and ranking, please let me know some schools concretely which are more tangible to me. Best regard. Thank you very much

Hello! I am a Korean looking forward to study in the US. I am looking into applying for Statistics PhD programs, and I was hoping for some feedback/input. My goal : statistics doctorate in US Undergraduate: I have two bachelors from different university in Korea : 1st university(Korea rank 10 university) : major : mathematics education (3.68/4.5) 2nd university(Yonsei university : Korea) : major : mathematics (3.99/4.3 , graduated with 2nd ranking among the all the mathematics students in the department) Courses: I want to write the courses that I took in the 2nd university since this university is much more famous and GPA is more credible. Introduction to Differential geometry(A+), Differential geometry(A+), Introduction to topology(A0), Modern algebra 1(A0), Modern algebra 2(A+), Field theory(A+), Vector calculus(A+), Analysis1 (A+), Analysis2 (A-), Linear algebra 1(A0), Linear algebra 2 (A-), Category theory (A+), Game theory(A0) Numerical Analysis(A+) Differential Equation(B-) , Stochastic Process(B+) Introduction to statistics(B+) Master degree : drop out after 1 year of studying from KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) with majoring in Financial engineering After drop out from the KAIST , I entered in Yonsei university (applied statistics graduate school) : major : statistics (3.94/4.3) Courses: Graduate mathematic : Real analysis(A0), Financial mathematics(A+), Numerical analysis(I will take coming semester) Graduate statistics : Mathematical statistics1(A-), Nonparametrics1(A+), Credibility theory(A0), Linear model(A0), Statistical computing(A0), Statistical learning theory(A+), Survival analysis(A-) Etc : two courses in economic graduate school : econometric(A-), Asset pricing(B+) one course from English literature graduate school : English writing (I will take this coming semester) GRE/TOEFL: GRE : General: Verbal 152, Quantitative 168, Writing 3.5 TOEFL : 91/120 (more tests will be tried so that I can get slight more higher than this) Research Experience: Thesis : I am currently working on a thesis on extreme value distribution (not published) Lecture : Teaching Assistance in statistics : 1 years and half I will TA this coming last semester in statistic in English lecture. I have Korean national teacher license and I taught mathematic in high school for one months before join to army Programming available : C++/C, Matlab, unix, R, SAS, Visual basic, etc I served as a computational army when I was army for 2 years. I am very easily familiar with the programming even if I am new to some program. Numerical analysis is one of more core which I devoted to study. Research Area Ambitions: Not sure. But hopefully, theoretical statistics, time series analysis, extreme value theory, copola theory. Letters of Recommendation: I can get three letters but I am not sure about the contents. Goal graduate school(only full scholarship wanted) : all are statistics, not biostat 1. Wharton school : statistics 2. Wisconsin 3. Michigan