Until this point, I'm mainly choosing between NC State phd program and UChicago Master Program in statistics (and possibly UNC phd program since I know that I got waitlisted there).
I also got waitlisted to a bunch of other schools (cornell, etc) but I don't really hold much hope for that.
I really like the master program at UChicago because one has to do a master thesis and have a master advisor, which means that there is an explicit expectation that professors will work with master students. Some of their MS students do go on to their own phd program or elsewhere.
So how is the master program at UChicago compared to other master programs? As another recent post suggests, is it a "cash cow"? (I know master program in some degree is cash cow for its respective phd program, so I guess I'm just wondering how "cash cow" it is?). It is shocking to know that there are around 280 students graduating from Columbia master program every year, considering there are only about 50 students in Chicago's program...