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So I have spent two months trying to decide on where to go to school. I've already eliminated some schools, and now it's down to Johns Hopkins (Applied Math & Statistics) or George Washington (Statistics). The deadline to decide is a little under 3 hours from now. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! George Washington: -Established first Statistics department in Arts & Sciences -Has biostatistics center with many research opportunities -Many job opportunities in DC area (government & private) -Foggy Bottom is a nice campus -Faculty with many affiliations in the area -Half of Masters students are Part-Time -Approximately 20-25 Masters Students -Would live in Northern VA and take the metro into campus -Ranked #48 -$19,000/year Johns Hopkins: -One of the best biostatistics departments in the country -Kind of hard to find research opportunities, competitive -Only 3-4 Master's students per year -Both applied math & statistics, lots of courses to choose from -Good faculty/professors -Baltimore (right outside of the Hopkins bubble) is not as good of a city -Living on campus is kind of pricey, walk through Baltimore to class -Ranked #5 (biostats), #24 (math), #25 (engineering) -$50,000 per year No offer of funding from either place. So is the extra $30,000/year worth the brand name?

Hi all, glad to see someone started a post about this (since I'm from the area)! Granted, I only applied to Masters programs. I've only read reviews on phds.org and it's hard to find anything about rankings in statistics outside of what's already been said. How is the process for everyone else coming along? I'm having a REALLY hard time deciding on where to go... here are my results (I may post a completely new thread for this): -Accepted: Johns Hopkins (AMS), George Washington, University of Virginia, George Mason -Rejected: University of Maryland (Mathematical Stats) -Waiting: Georgetown (Math & Stat) As you can see, they're all concentrated in this one area Any thoughts?

Takoyaki7, I am waiting on funding from JHU. When will you be declining their offer?