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I may use your quote to write to the department. Thanks

Hi, I am an international student who just got offered to one of US graduate program fro Fall 2017. However, i has been getting a psychological therapy to treat the psychological disorder. I think it would not be finished till the beginning of the new program before I am a completely okay from the disorder. So i would like to defer the admission. May it be a proper justification? the website of my prospective university says that the acceptable reasons for deferral includes medical or family emergency and natural disaster which seems like much worse cases than mine.....

Oh....my.....so you think that Calculus should be taken anyway. I also agree with you. Multivariate Calculus courses may outweigh the additional stat courses since it is listed as a prereq. it means a series of Calculus are somewhat mandatory whereas extra stat courses are optional. Thanks

Thanks for the reply I am considering the MS program as the stepping stone for the Ph.D programs in the field of social science which heavily requires stat and econ knowledge. So i am thinking of the Stat program provided from the good universities in those fields such as Chicago, Duke, Michigan, Cornell and so on. I don't know whether I will be a strong applicant for those schools. Anyway, your advice gave me a chance to change a plan for this year to some extent. If i understand correctly, your point may be summarized as taking related math courses such as the next sequential calculus, some of analysis courses and numerical analysis other than more stat courses. And i am really in favor of this idea To clarify the 'multivariate', I meant the multivariate stat analysis. I heard from my buddy that taking this course allow me to be familiarized with high-dimensional stat-related calculation. and..... to be honest, i hesitate to take the next calculus course. my university provides one-year calculus courses(Cal 1 and 2) covering the content of cal 1-3 and the students taking these courses have already mastered it even before entering the university. this is because of the special condition of high school curricula in my home country. and it made me to get a B on Cal1 :'(. Instead, I guess other courses (such as math stat 1,2, Cal1 and Linear Algebra) gave me a super hard training of calculating the multivariate functions and matrix calculation. If you don't mind, I have another question. If i don't take the next Calculus course which is mostly required by the MS stat programs, can i defend myself by saying on SOP that the related topics were fully covered from other courses? Thank you for your reply on my first article on gradcafe

Hi I am planning to apply for a number of Statistics MS program at the end of this year. Now i am considering what courses to take in these upcoming Spring and Fall semesters and i need some advice on it. Undergrad: One of Top 5 Univ. in QS Asia University ranking.GPA: 3.7/4.00Major: Applied. Econ. Related courses i took : Econ Math(A), Applied Econ Methodology(deals with regression and some other related tests) (A), Advanced Psych Stat(Grad)(A), Calculus1(B), Econ Stat(A), Intro to programming(A), Linear Algebra(B), Intro to Analysis(A), Math stat1(B), Econometrics(A), Math Stat2(A) RA/TA experience: RA for a year in the Marketing research lab of my Univ. the first author on two working papers in one of the well known marketing conference. I am thinking of two options as to what courses to take for this year 1.focused on senior stat courses such as regression, Nonparametric, computational stat., time series, econometrics(Grad), Stochastic process, Datamining, Multivariate 2.some courses in the first option replaced with advanced math course: nonparametric(<-Real analysis), Datamining(<-Numerical analysis) Which options do seem better? I wonder whether the committee closely looks at the advanced math course or the more bunch of stat course. and what universities would be applicable if i assume to receive fancy grades for the courses i have mentioned above? Thank you