yukichi

Worries: I'm going into Statistics for a Ph.D. and my Quant score on the GRE was... less than stellar (160, 74th percentile). On top of that, 2 out of the 9 schools I applied to I uploaded the wrong SOP - one with misspellings (first draft), and one with the wrong school name so it feels like my pool of schools has shrank and I wasted $200 because of it. I even emailed them and they said they can't accept changes because of the sheer number of applicants. I also didn't contact professors in the programs about their research because I didn't know you were supposed to do that? So it just feels like all of the cards are stacked against me right now, especially since I've been sitting on some applications since mid-November and have yet to hear or see anything. Excitement: A lot of the programs I applied for are really cool and I could learn a ton from being there - there's a professor in I think UNC Chapel Hill who is interested in doing statistics on aggregated citizen science data which sounds so rad. The fact that there are statistics programs with actual labs doing research is also really cool since I'm coming from a smaller program with no dedicated stats labs, so I'm excited to do statistics research with other students and professors instead of just with a professor/PI.

Haha, I was hoping the same thing! I logged in to check my application and it still says submitted (like it has been since November...), so fingers crossed.