Louise Yi

Hi there, I have also received an invitation from Columbia DS today Congratulation for all your acceptances! For me I'm currently choosing among NYU DS, Duke MIDS and CMU - BIDA (business intelligence & data analytics). I've got a scholarship from both Duke & CMU so cost won't be a concern. I'm leaning towards Duke MIDS as the faculty is highly skilled & it's a two years program with flexible curriculum although it's a new program. still not toooo sure though Waiting for Columbia DS & UPenn MCIT program.

Hey there! I also received AD from MIDS this week Thanks for your advice. Just wondering will you accept your offer? Have seen some negative comments on the result page as it's a brand new program... but the faculty seems to be highly knowledgable and they do care about the students quite a lot I'm not too sure about whether to choose this program or CMU-BIDA as I got 40% tuition scholarship from CMU... still waiting for Columbia & UPenn

Thanks Cali! The website is super helpful! I'll take a further look

Thanks Haren! The reason I thought Penn/NW might be good as they have a much smaller class size and harder to get in especially for Upenn? Glad to know Columbia is great as I'm still waiting for their outcome. I've heard a few rumours about some programs in Columbia are a cash cow / the curriculum in Columbia is unstructured.. not sure about the details though. What do you think about Columbia?

hey guys, how would you guys rank the following programs? just try to understand more about the reputation & quality of data science/analytics programs I guess stanford & harvard & MIT have the top 3 analytics programs. NYU DS / Columbia DS / Duke MIDS / UPenn DS / NorthWestern Analytics / George Tech Analytics / CMU BIDA I'm thinking Upenn > NorthWestern > NYU > Duke > George Tech > Columbia > CMU BIDA?

Hey how's your NYU application going? I just received an email that I'm on the WL

Thank you! You definitely have an outstanding background! I just received my interview invite as well :) Do you mind sharing what kind of questions they might ask during an interview? Are you planning to take Duke's offer?

It looks like they have started sending out interviews as well.. although I havent received any updates yet have you guys received the columbia DS interview?

Congrats! Did you do an interview? Would you like to share more about your background?

Anyone heard back from Duke / Northwestern? I knew they have started sending out the interview invite...

Hi guys, just starting a thread on master applications as I've seen the other topic is more for phd students Feel free to share your application information. For me: Applied (data science master program): Columbia, Duke, Harvard, U Penn, Northwestern, NYU, CMU, Stanford Just got rejection from Upenn

Hey guys, just interested to know should I retake GRE for top data science Master program like Stanford / Harvard/CMU.. I knew that sometimes a high GRE score (330+) might support the average GPA.. I'm currently getting verbal 158 & quant 166 with a GPA 3.76. (I've seen most of the people who got accepted to Stanford had 3.9+ GPA) I had two years work experience in consulting analytics team & strong letters from workplace. It seems that the data science program for this year is very competitive. Should I retake GRE again for a higher chance to get into the top programs?

Thank you! I've checked a few stats programs but most of them had less focus in computing / programming. Would like to have more involvement in machine learning & build my programming skills That was my main purpose for studying. Your application looks very strong! Good luck to your application too

more feedbacks will be highly appreciated! still feeling nervous for not getting in any of the programs... retook my GRE today, unfortunately, got exactly the same scores as last time gg

thank you! Highly appreciated. The NC program is great however it's a 10 months degree. Will prefer a longer degree

Hi guys, I'm from New Zealand and worked for Deloitte Consulting since graduation for the previous 2 years. Undergraduate Institution: University of Auckland (top 1 in NZ but around ~120 globally) Majors: Statistics, Economics and Finance Cumulative GPA: our GPA uses different scale I got 7.5 - 7 stands for A-; 8 for A and 9 for A+. I assumed it was around 3.8? Major GPA: 7.9 Student Type: Asian female GRE General Test: Quant:166, Verbal: 158, AW: 4.0 (will retake again next week as I dont think my GRE is higher enough to get me to top tier?) Classes: Statistics: Mathematical Statistics (A+), Statistical Modelling (A); Introduction to Statistical Inference (A), Stochastic Prcess (B+), Data Analysis for Commerce (A-); Statistical Programming and Modelling using SAS (B+) Mathematics: Differential Equations (A-), Advancing Mathematics 2 (A-), General Mathematics 2 (A+) Research Experience: Worked on a ICU discharge policy under information system departmenet - summer research scholarship, no publication Intern Experience: 1 - Group Strategy Analyst at a global dairy company doing market strategy, digital strategy etc project support 2- Consulting analyst at a leading consulting firm in market research doing market resarch projects Work Experience: Deloitte Consulting in Information & Data Analytics team for 2 years. Project involved: data strategy, data platform, data visualisation and other strategy projects Teaching Experience: Teaching assistant for stage 1 Statistics course Letters of Recommendation: 4 options - havent decided yet! Help please 1: Director of analytics team - strong recommend (team lead) 2: Director of digital team - strong recommend (my coach) 3: Senior lecturer in Economic Department - strong recommend & close; did a few ecnometrics paper with him 4: Profession in Stats - globally well known statistician however not very close; got A+ from one of his class. might be just strong? Schools planning to apply: Stanford (M.S.), Harvard (M.S.), MIT - business analytics (M.S.), Penn (M.S.), Columbia (M.S.), NorthWestern(M.S.), Duke (M.S.), CMU (M.S.), NYU (M.S.) My Concern: work experience doesn't directly relate to data science & data analysis. more relate to data management, strategy (i.e. data migration, data quality, data visualisatoin, overall strategy type of projects) Programming skill: R, SAS, SQL； self-learning Python at the moment Question: 1: any safe schools for recommendations? looking for 1.5 / 2 years programme for data science as I want to build my programming skills & career progression to a data scientist in consulting firm 2: am I over applying to top tier schools? Stanford would be dream! But I think I reached the bar for Columbia / Duke / Upenn - not too sure though 3: help for LOR selection Many thanks!! Appreciate your assitance in advance.