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@yuizu221 I mentioned it earlier in this thread, but there were at least 11 NCSU waitlistings reported last year without any notes of acceptances off of it (from what I recall). However, there was at least one acceptance off of the waitlist in 2017 reported, with less gradcafe folks reporting waitlistings (5 or 6, if memory serves). In general, I'd say not to get your hopes up, but it's not impossible for people to get off of the NCSU waitlist -- I'm just of the impression that due to their gigantic cohorts, their waitlist is correspondingly large as well, and given that NCSU is pretty good and doesn't get turned down by a ton of people, there's a pretty low chance that any particular person gets off the waitlist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Assuming you mean statistics, there is that one result that said they got an interview invitation on Jan 31st. I haven't heard anything from them, and I'm guessing enough people on the forums applied there that there would be more noise if anything was coming out in big waves, so I wouldn't worry too much. No idea about biostatistics, albeit it looks like both degrees' results start coming out now or later.

@data_scrub I think your options so far are still pretty good! I'll be at UIUC's visit day, so hope to run into you there. I'm really hoping some schools release more decisions before the weekend. I'm getting pretty stir-crazy about Carnegie Mellon in particular, but for CMU or those who interviewed at Harvard/Hopkins, or any other school, I have to figure Super Bowl weekend's about the best weekend to help you momentarily forget that you didn't get into your dream school.

It looks like at least 11 people reported being wait listed at NC State last year, so that seems fair. Somebody reported getting in off the wait list in 2017, though.

I'm curious to see if any folks waiting for NC State decisions get acceptances today/tomorrow. Most of the recent decisions on the results page have been straight rejections, and I got waitlisted -- I would think with all of NC State's application load that they'd still have acceptances coming out, but I haven't heard about any after those couple reported on the Chinese forums a little bit ago.

@Monte Carlo Guess they're really setting us up for the ole' "This year's batch of applicants was the most qualified in department history, and we had to make some very tough decisions" email. I wish we heard the second wave of NC State admissions too, but I guess all the application envelopes in the research triangle got put in the wrong P.O. box or something. Also, just had a professor reference my statement of purpose in an interview, so either I'm a weirder candidate than I thought or that's more of a thing now.

As usual, I'm not an expert. That said, I've gotten 2 Ph.D. acceptances and 1 Ph.D. interview thus far, and my recommenders were a research mentor in a sort-of quantitative social science, a statistics professor I took 1 applied class with, and a professor I took 1 journal club-style class with in a mostly non-quantitative field. You'll probably be applying with a better math background than me too. I don't know much about your GPA, GRE scores, or school's perceived prestige, but I'm of the opinion that if you already have 2 professors you've had multiple math classes with AND you know they will write strong recommendations of you, then you're doing pretty darn well, and don't stress the third letter writer so much. Use whoever you think will write the strongest letter, the first two letters should probably convince the school you can do math. Short Answer: As long as you and your non-STEM recommender get an idea of how their recommendation fits into your case for admission into these programs, I don't see a reason you can't use them.

It's probably not great of me to be tagging a busy grad student in here, but I recall that @Bayesian1701 got that diversity fellowship last year, so maybe she can help you.

I'm also waiting on NC State. I wonder if that means we're on some sort of waitlist/they're holding onto us longer before they reject us, or if several of our forum mates ended up in the same batch of applications together (or something else entirely I wouldn't know about). I wasn't expecting them to release until the 15th, though, so I'm glad everyone who got accepted got the news in time to celebrate this weekend!

It doesn't appear to be a school that those worrying about admission decisions applied to, but I just said I didn't get any grad school e-mails today and was bummed out, then checked again and saw I got my first acceptance, so I'll second cyberwulf's optimism for us all!

We'd probably need some background on any sort of research you've done, plus whatever sort of theoretical math coursework you've taken (some of which might of come through Comp Sci, of course) and what grades you got in those classes. GRE scores wouldn't hurt either. You might be editing those in in a little bit, but just in case you were unfamiliar or forgot, those would all be useful. EDIT: Thank you! I'm not really an evaluation expert, but the absence of Real Analysis would probably be the biggest issue. At my school, Mathematical Statistics and Probability are the same thing, so I'm assuming you're referring to Statistical Inference, which is probably good to take but I'm not sure its absence is quite so problematic. I seem to recall Texas being a smallish department(?), so you might have a bit of a hard time getting in this year, even though your GPA and GREs and whatnot non-Real Analysis are quite in order. However, you'll probably do alright with a larger list of applications next year -- particularly if you take Real Analysis and maybe your school's Mathematical Statistics. I'll leave the more fine-detail analysis to the people who actually know things.

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy (Gregorian) new year! Looks like no one has posted any more results since the last post in this thread, so if you haven't gotten an interview/admission e-mail yet, don't worry! Some results from past years seemed to show that some schools did actually send out e-mails in this Christmas/New Year's Eve week, but apparently they decided to give all of us (or at least those who post results here) a break, so go take advantage of it!

If y'all feel comfortable, don't forget (now or later) about the results page! Looks like some Columbia and Michigan biostat Ph.D. results have been entered, but not anything that appears to be a traditional statistics Ph.D. (not real sure what to make of Educational Measurement and Statistics). Also, ya' know, congratulations!

For what it's worth, I got this e-mail too. You may have submitted yours early, but my submission was ~an hour and a half before the deadline, so I'm guessing this is more of an "everyone" thing, since I'm dubious they would've had time to really dig into my application. Regardless, good luck!

(Yet again, probably a relatively common question, but not one I found the search terms for) I was taking real analysis this semester and got a B. I'm assuming that most schools seriously considering me will ask for grades from this semester, given that I was taking real analysis and statistical inference this semester, so I'm curious as to what schools that would take off the table. What level of statistics and biostatistics schools and programs (Ph.D./M.S.) would this take off the table, respectively? I'm probably not the only person wondering this at the current time of year, so I'd hope for a more general answer if you've got it, but for my case specifically I'll list a few associated factors: -Real analysis is about the only high-level math I've taken. -Most relevant other grades would probably be: Probability (A, last semester), Intro to Analysis (A-, last semester), Intro Proofs (A, last semester), and Statistical Inference (A, this semester). -I'd hope regular GRE scores wouldn't matter, but I got a 170 in quantitative. Didn't take the math subject test, although I'd imagine it could help a lot for those who did. Thank you to everyone who responds, good luck to anyone else in a similar position, and congratulations and good work to those who did better! Happy Holidays y'all!

(I have to assume this has been answered, but I guess I didn't find the right search terms. Oh well...) As the title asks, do applied or computationally-based linear algebra classes satisfy the basic requirements for admissions to grad schools in statistics or biostatistics? I'm going to assume that it's probably on something of a school by school basis, so if any of y'all who have recently applied in similar circumstances would like to chime in regarding places you did/didn't get considered, that may be helpful. I seem to recall cyberwulf or someone of similar stature saying that everyone should take proofs-based linear algebra, and while I'm intending on it, if applied linear algebra just straight-up is never accepted then clearly I need to schedule the proofs-based version this upcoming semester as opposed to in the spring. Panic-posting about admissions requirements after midnight is super fun, so I hope (as opposed to my last post) that this might actually help a few other worried folks.

I know this probably isn't quite a usual post, but since a couple peers have suggested that the answer to the given rhetorical question might be "yes", I figure I should run it by the experts: I'm applying this upcoming year, and I anticipate graduating with 4 majors -- pretty much, I was double-majoring in Econ and Psych, and then added Math and Stat later on. Will admissions committees see my CV/transcript and think that, say, I have a hard time being decisive, or won't be committed to statistics long-term? Should I at least spend a portion of my personal statement explaining (in more words than above) how I came to have 4 majors, so as to help explain my situation and prevent any presumptions of waffling? While I'm at it, is there any chance admissions committees would think this is a positive? Most people here appear to be double-majors at least, so I'm assuming not, but if schools really look at GRE scores in any detail like this post (https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/99147-what-im-looking-at-when-i-review-applications/) would suggest, then maybe they would look at strange numbers of majors too? Well, have fun skewering me, hopefully at least I've made y'all's weekends more enjoyable by laughing at this topic.