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Hi~ Actually, I'm an international student, so I don't have the chance to visit these two schools. (I really wish I could). One of my friends tells me that the size of the town doesn't matter coz I would be a PhD, and all I should do is working hard, so the surrounding is not important. but I don't know, I guess I would like some places to relax during the weekends. Maybe the OSU is better for me? I think the academia might be too hard for me to survive and the competition is so fierce, so I guess I would prefer finding a job like data scientist or analyst. In this case, does the ranking still matter? Thank you !

Thanks for your suggestion! I'm not quite sure about where my research interests lie in for now, so I guess I would try several different areas within the first two years of my PhD life. Again, thanks so much!

Got admitted by both Iowa State University and Ohio State University. I am more inclined to attending ISU because the stat program here is somehow better than OSU, but one of my friends told me that the life in Ames would be boring so I should go to OSU, since the stat program there is not bad. Which one should I choose? Almost freaked out...