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My career goals are in academia, I very much want to be a researcher and enjoy teaching as well. Of the schools listed above I only applied to Ohio, NCSU, and UCSB. I also applied to Toronto, but have no desire to reapply there. I have only received a rejection from NCSU, and at this point am betting that the likelihood of hearing an acceptance is low. The other schools I plan to apply to this fall. Last fall was pretty rough and I didn't fully commit to the application cycle for 2019. I'm all in now, but the radio silence from Ohio and UCSB did make me question if the flaws on my application, besides my terrible GRE scores, were substantially detracting from my application. You mentioned that applicants you met all had strong grades in math/stat. Does that mean they got straight A's? Or mostly A's? I do have mostly strong grades in math, but are the C's and B's going to spoil my shot at PhD programs? I'm more than happy to do a masters program first, but would want to find a program offering funding. Would I be competitive in that pool? Also I should add that Real Functions and Measures, Functional, and Complex were graduate courses at another university.

I applied for Fall 2019 programs but have not heard any acceptance and not anticipating them at this point. Undergrad Institution : Not well known public university. Ranks around 96 (among regional universities west) on US News Major(s): Mathematics GPA: 3.6 Minor(s): Computer Science Type of Student: Domestic, White Male Courses taken and taking: Calculus I-III (A, C+, B), Mathematical Proofs (A), Abstract Algebra I (A), Linear Algebra (C), Topology (A), Real Analysis I,II (A), Real Functions and Measures (C+), Functional Analysis (B+), Complex Analysis (B), Advanced Problem Solving (A), Probability I, II (A-, A+), Stochastic Processes (A), Statistical Theory (A+), Statistical Methods (A), Linear Regression(A+), Applied Analysis of Data (A+), Machine Learning I, II (A-, A+), Data Visualization (A), Data Science (A+) GRE General Test: Q: 159 (72%) V: 155 (69%) W: 3.0 (17%) Grad Institution: N/A Programs Applying: Statistics Research Experience: 1. Did time series data analysis on water quality data with statistics professor. Successfully applied for a few grants for this project. Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Tutor, TA, and Research Assistant. Letters of Recommendation: Two professors from stats department both implied to be very strong. One professor from math department whom I presented with at a conference. Research Interest: Nonparametric Regression, Statistical Learning Theory, Functional Data Analysis Applying to where: MS (will only go if I get funding): Wake-Forest, Yale PhD: Rice, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, NC State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Iowa State, Ohio State, Cornell Extra Stuff: Presented at JSM and MathFest. Passed two Actuarial Exams. My advisers have been very positive about my potential in a PhD program and my likelihood of acceptance, but I don't have good sense where I fit given the blemishes on my record. I plan on retaking the GRE and have confidence in obtaining much higher scores, but am still concerned about my GPA and the poor grades in Linear Algebra and Measure Theory.

I have not heard anything. They sent out offers in February and haven't seen anything since. Still waiting for word from Toronto and Ohio as well.

@danny1997 When did you submit your app to Ohio?

Do you know if Ohio sends out another round of decisions after the weekend visit? I still haven't heard anything.