[Fall 2019 Statistics Applicant Thread]

17 hours ago, AsianSpice said:

Anyone attending Ohio State this fall?

I will be. Are you in the Statistics Phd program? Also, to everyone else who is going to attend OSU, maybe we can start a fb group or something just to "meet" each other before actually doing it?

[Fall 2019 Statistics Applicant Thread]

Just got into Ohio State for PhD in Statistics !!!! What a relief after the two rejects from Duke and CMU (which were not surprising but still). Good luck to everyone.

[MS Stats Eval/Rec]

Undergrad Institution: An American liberal arts university in Europe
Major: Mathematics

Minor: Economics
GPA: 3.97/4.0

Type of Student: International

Relevant Courses: Calculus1,2(A,A), Multivariate Calculus(A),  Linear Algebra(A), Abstract Algebra (A), Complex Analysis(A), Numerical Analysis(A), Mathematical Statistics(A), Elementary Statistics(A), Financial Mathematics(A), ODE(A-), Dynamical System(Withdraw - was also taking Complex Analysis and Mult. Calculus that semester and I simply overestimated myself), Intro to Comp. Science(A), Databases (B+) Micro,Macro Economy(A,A), Econometrics (A), Quantitative Methods in Economics (A)

I am taking Real Analysis this fall.

 

TOEFL: Will not have to take it since the language of instruction in my undergrad inst is English

GRE: Will take it in October (twice), aiming at 165+ Q

GRE Subject Mathematics: Not offered in my country 

 

Programs Applying:  MS Statistics

 

Research Experience: 

- Will do a Senior Thesis on stochastic processes/financial mathematics

Teaching Experience:

-Elementary statistics subject tutor for three semesters

-Linear Algebra TA for a semester

- Will be a Calculus TA this coming semester

 

 

Recommendation Letters:

-A professor I took Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra and Mult.Calculus with ( got all As)

-TA advisor or senior thesis advisor (leaning towards the latter)

-Statistics Professor. took 3 courses with and got As in all of them. He also recommended me for the aforementioned statistics gig.

 

Computer Skills : STATA, Octave, Python, C++, SQL

Applying to:

Duke

UChicago

Yale

Northwestern

John Hopkins

Cornell

Rice

This is still a tentative list and I am open to any suggestions. I do not know how much it will change anything but it is also worth mentioning that there is a scholarship at my uni for alumni who are admitted to top 20 US unis (this is also why I am aiming so high).

Thank you in advance.