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  1. On 4/19/2020 at 9:23 PM, Bernt said:

    Has anyone who received the GRFP award received additional information? The original email said information regarding how to accept/decline the award would be sent out before April 21st, which is in 2 days. I haven't received any additional emails/info, so I just want to make sure I'm not the only one.

    It says May 7 on the portal.

    Anyway, accepted in bioinformatics: E/E, E/E, E/VG. All of the reviews basically said it was impressive I had X number of publications. Meh, personally it feels a bit odd to be judged solely by the # of pubs, but I guess that's the way academia works?

  2. Omg I got it!! As a 2nd year PhD too!!! So happy/surprised, especially after getting soundly rejected when I applied 2 years ago (on top of getting rejected from almost every grad school I applied to ugh).

    To everyone who didn't get it: I'm sorry. I understand how demoralizing it feels. ? 

  3. FWIW, I was in a gap year when I applied 2 years ago, and from my reviews, it felt like I was compared against current graduate students (the reviewers kept noting how I had no publications, and one review complained that I only talked about things I did in my undergrad?).

  4. Hi!

    I'm applying this season to CS/Stats PhD programs. Mostly CS programs (8 CS ones versus 2 stats ones), but in applied stats/machine learning/network science-esque areas that lie in the intersection of CS and Stats. None of the CS programs require a subject test. One stats program "strongly recommends" the subject test, and the other one somewhat recommends it. I know I can do well on the test if I put in the time, but I don't want to take it if I don't have to. Here are some stats:

     

    Undergrad Institution: Top 10
    Major(s): Math, Applied Math, CS
    GPA: 4.0
    Type of Student: Male, Domestic
    Programs Applying: PhD in stats/CS

    Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Top 200 on Putnam, and some school-wide awards

    Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Grader/TA for upper-level math/CS courses, counselor for well-known math summer camp for high-schoolers

    Math and Stat Courses: Lots of graduate-level math classes: algebra, commutative algebra, measure theory, complex analysis, manifolds, number theory, probability theory, stochastic processes. Other stats-y classes include machine learning and network science.
     
    I'm hoping my long list of math classes and other math-y activities means I don't have to take the subject test... what do you think?
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