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My school is not among those prestigious colleges like you mentioned, which is what I concern the most. But it is pretty well known around the area it locates. I wonder how much attention that a graduate admission put on the reputation of an undergraduate school? Sometimes small LAC students just don't have an opportunity to take advanced courses due to its course design and limited faculty members.

Thank you very much for your suggestions and courage.

I am an international student graduating from a small liberal art college in the U.S, with a double major in mathematics and computer science. I am applying to statistics Ph.D. right now and I am worried a lot about my chance of getting into a school. My concern is from the fact that our school offers limited choices of courses, including some essential statistics classes, like stochastic process, advanced probability, advanced mathematical statistics etc. In addition, since the liberal art college doesn't offer graduate courses, I think my academic background is very week, comparing to those applicants from big universities. Does anybody have any idea of what to do with this situation? Do I still have a chance to get in a 40-50 ranking Ph.D.? Thank you in advance for any comments/suggestions. Some of my positive facts: summer research experience with one publication(first author); One year Honors thesis with statistics professor. Major GPA 3.95.