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Hi Cyberwulf, thank you for your reply. Is there a specific reason why you recommended Pittsburgh? It's just that Pitts was never on my map and I want to know if there are things that they are doing that should be considered particularly?

Hello Mathematicians and Statisticians (what a mouthful!), I'm a huge list person so here it is: Undergra school: Top 20 liberal arts college in cornfield (literally) with an okay Math/Stats department Demographics: Asian female international (F-1) GRE: Verbal 161 Quant 170 Writing 4 GRE Sub Math: just took last week, not expecting anything better than 50% GPA: 3.68 General 3.57 Math (it wounds me, I know) Also have a French major (3.84) and a Linguistics concentration (3.83) Courses: Calc I(AP) Calc II(A-) Linear Algebra(A) Combinatorics(A-) Abstract Algebra(C you see why the sad math GPA, how damaging is this?) Applied Statistics(A) Statistical Modeling(A) Probabilities&Statistics I(A-) In progress: Real Analysis Research: - One summer research in my college's CS department on machine learning (OCR on maps) but what I did was really data base integration (huge geospatial data sets) and some regular expression stuff, conference presentation. *Will be interested to hear about NPL/Computational Linguistics programs - One ongoing semester-long independent research in nonlinear modeling of swim/track data, will do some work in data visualization too. *Athlete and big sports fan. Will be thrilled if anyone can tell me about a program big on sports data/analysis Rec letter: one strong, one fairly strong, one okay (what worries me is that all three are from my not so well-known college) Programming: used R and Matlab in class and research but not fluent in either. More on a "here's a problem, go stackoverflow it" basis. Am taking coursera, will it help? Work: stats grader for two years Applying to: - Stats PhD: Columbia (high reach, decided to give a shot for personal reasons), Cornell (high reach), Penn State (reach), UMich (reach), Rutgers (target), BU (target), UConn (target) - Biostats PhD: Penn(reach), U Minnesota (reach), BU(target), Rochester(target) - Biostats MS: Penn (reach), Yale (reach), Brown (reach) (Big name schools, yeah, makes my dad more willing to fund my master's degree) - Computational Linguistics MS: Brandeis (target) Any suggestion, advice, comment, info, what-were-you-thinking! are welcome. Thanks.